[photopress:hunchun3.jpg,full,alignright]China, Russia, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have agreed on a new regular cargo and passenger sea route linking China and Japan. The route, due to open early next year, will run about 800 sea miles from Hunchun, a major Chinese port city in northeast Jilin Province, to Niigata in Japan by way of the Russian port of Zarubino and ROK’s Sokcho.
Ren Puyu, vice mayor of Hunchun said the Hunchun-Zarubino-Sokcho-Niigata route will be the only direct cargo and passenger transportation line among the four countries around the Sea of Japan. Yu Guozheng, an expert on Northeast Asia economic issues from the Changchun-based Northeast Normal University, said the opening of the new route would greatly promote the regional economic development of Northeast Asia.
A one-way trip along the new route takes one and half days, just one eighth of the current route starting from the port city of Dalian in Liaoning province.
Source: Xinhuanat
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