Sino-Russian railway bridge built soon

Construction of a new cross-border railway bridge between China and Russia will start early next year.
Wang Jin, director for the construction of the bridge, said the Russians suggested that construction should start in late January 2011, when the ice in the river is at least one meter thick.
A team of over 20 workers has been dispatched to the site by the Harbin Railway Bureau.
The 3,000-meter Tongjiang railway bridge will link Tongjiang port in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province and Russia’s Leninskoye in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and railway networks of the two countries will be connected upon its completion.
English People’s Daily Online reports China will invest an estimated RMB2.026 billion (US$304.7 million) in the railway bridge, which will have a cargo transport capacity of 21 million metric tons per year.