A new logistics facility, costing CNY3 billion (US$470.6 million), has started construction in northeast Hunchun, Jilin province, on the border of North Korea to facilitate cross border trade, Xinhua reported.
The facility will cover a land area of 60 hectares and a floor area of 960,000 square metres when fully developed, offering logistics, trading, exhibition and e-business services.
First phase of the facility will cost CNY380 million and cover 7.6 hectares and a floor area of 128,000 square metres.
In the early 1990s, the Jilin provincial government build a railway and improved the highway to Hunchun, a border town of 250,000, according to Wikipedia. A bridge connects Hunchun to the North Korean town of Wonjeong. In 2010 the bridge was renovated as part of an agreement between North Korea and China to modernise the Rason port in North Korea.
In addition, a new railway line was constructed which links Hunchun and Makhalino (a station on the Ussuriysk-Khasan line, 41 kilometres before Khasan in Russia and began operating in February 2000. Hunchun port is 42 kilometres from Posyet and 63 kilometres from Zarubino port towns of Russia.
The facility will cover a land area of 60 hectares and a floor area of 960,000 square metres when fully developed, offering logistics, trading, exhibition and e-business services.
First phase of the facility will cost CNY380 million and cover 7.6 hectares and a floor area of 128,000 square metres.
In the early 1990s, the Jilin provincial government build a railway and improved the highway to Hunchun, a border town of 250,000, according to Wikipedia. A bridge connects Hunchun to the North Korean town of Wonjeong. In 2010 the bridge was renovated as part of an agreement between North Korea and China to modernise the Rason port in North Korea.
In addition, a new railway line was constructed which links Hunchun and Makhalino (a station on the Ussuriysk-Khasan line, 41 kilometres before Khasan in Russia and began operating in February 2000. Hunchun port is 42 kilometres from Posyet and 63 kilometres from Zarubino port towns of Russia.