Chinese workers labor at the construction site of the the Heihe-Blagoveshchensk bridge on the China-Russia border in Heihe city, northeast China's Heilongjiang province, 31 May 2019. The construction of the Sino-Russian Tongjiang-Nizhneleninskoye railway bridge is expected to be completed this year together with other cross-border infrastructure programs aimed at enhancing China's connectivity with Russia and central Europe and central Asia, senior officials of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province said on Thursday. Aside from the Tongjiang-Nizhneleninskoye railway bridge, which is expected to be completed this year, construction of the Heihe-Blagoveshchensk bridge on the China-Russia border began in 2017 and construction of Heixiazi Island (or known as Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island in Russia) land border port will also begin, the official said. Alexander Galushka, Minister of Development of the Russian Far East, said the Heihe-Blagoveshchensk highway bridge will be completed in 2019, Xinhua News Agency reported.
