Mobile bridge across the Amur between Blagoveshchensk and Chinese Heihe. Archival photoVLADIVOSTOK, June 10 The Russian authorities are considering opening additional checkpoints with China in the Far East, said Alexei Chekunkov, head of the Ministry for the Development of the Far East. On Friday, cargo traffic was opened on the international automobile bridge Blagoveshchensk (Russia) — Heihe ( China) across the Amur River. «We are already seeing a shortage of carrying capacity in terms of railways, border crossings, ports, exceeding 70 million tons per year. And with the current growth dynamics of trade turnover, freight traffic in the Eastern direction, it can double. Each such project is vital important for the Russian Federation. The most important project is the construction of a new Pacific railway from Yakutia to the Pacific Ocean, Khabarovsk Territory. We are considering the possibility of opening additional checkpoints. We recently worked with Yuri Petrovich (Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister) in Transbaikalia and discussed the possibility of building a crossing, » — Chekunkov told reporters. Earlier, during a visit to Chita, Trutnev supported the idea 
Chekunkov: we will develop production sites at the crossings from the PRCConstruction of the Blagoveshchensk-Heihe cross-border crossing across the Amur began in December 2016 in the Blagoveshchensky district of the Amur region and was carried out simultaneously from both banks. It was planned to open the bridge in November 2020, but due to the difficult epidemiological situation, the launch of the facility had to be postponed.
