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China: high speed rail Suifenhe-Vladivostok cost-effective
2018-08-22
[1Prime.ru] China considers it cost-effective to build a high-speed railroad line from the Chinese border city of Suifenhe to Vladivostok, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev told reporters.

According to him, the cost of the BCM with a length of 180 kilometers is estimated at 7 billion dollars.

"The Chinese company has almost completed a feasibility study, and we have now looked at it - it's enough in-depth considering the situation in both the border areas of China and the Russian Far East," Trutnev said on Tuesday, discussing results of the meeting of the Russian-Chinese intergovernmental commission.

Posted by:3dc

#3  Russia should have upgraded the trans-Siberian railway long ago and made an effort to get in on the Pacific Rim economy in a big way.

If I were Putin I'd (1) do what I could to turn Vladivostok into a sort of Hong Kong with a minimal gov footprint and low taxes to draw in shipping, and encourage settlers from Indian and Latin-American (that have no claim to the area) to move there to counter the Chinese population in the area.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-08-22 10:58  

#2  Chinese are quietly settling (nearly empty) Russian Far East, gorb.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-08-22 02:47  

#1  Horse$hit. What do they really want?
Posted by: gorb   2018-08-22 02:29  

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