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The movement on the automobile bridge, which first connected Russia and China, will start after the restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic are lifted, TASS reports. Experts from the Ministry of Construction issued permission to put the bridge into operation. If it were not for the coronavirus infection, the bridge would have begun to work immediately after the permission was obtained.
The bridge is connecting the banks of the Amur river. It was built near Blagoveshchensk and Heihe. Cities are located opposite each other on different banks of the Amur. Its construction was completed at the end of last year.
The capacity of the cable-stayed bridge with a two-lane highway is more than 600 trucks, about 170 buses, and almost 70 cars per day. The bridge is also designed to handle 5,5 thousand people a day.
The construction of the bridge began five years ago, the project cost amounted to almost 19 billion rubles. Russia invested 2/3 of this sum. The budgetary funds were not used to finance the project.
The construction of the cableway was also started. The new funicular will be the first cable car in the world that will connect the two countries. This project has no parallel in the world. The funicular will turn into an additional incentive to enhance cooperation between regions, which, in turn, will intensify interaction in the economy.
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