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The Amur Bridge Project is an international Sino-Russian bridge under construction. The bridge will link Nizhneleninskoye (in Russian: Нижнеленинское) in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast with Tongjiang (in Chinese: 同江) in Heilongjiang Province. The cross-border road bridge and its corresponding infrastructure will be 19.9 km long and is projected to cost $355 million. The bridge is expected to open in October 2019 and is expected to transport more than 3 million metric tons of cargo and 1.5 million passengers per year.
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Projected uses
A major use of the bridge will be to transport iron ore from the Kimkan open-pit mine in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast that is owned by IRC Limited, which is partly owned by Petropavlovsk plc. Petropavlovsk plc will participate in financing the bridge construction.
History
The bridge was first proposed in 2007 by Valery Solomonovich Gurevich, the vice-chairman of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Gurevich said that the proposal to construct a bridge across the river was first suggested by the Russian side, in view of growing cargo transportation demands.
In 2013, the transport ministries of Russia and China had signed a general construction agreement. During President Putin's visit to China in May 2014, another agreement about the construction of the bridge was signed by the Russian and Chinese officials. In September 2014, Russia and China founded a joint company which will control the process of building the bridge.
In November 2014, the local Russian media reported that a significant amount of the construction work had been carried out on the Chinese part of the bridge, but hardly anything has been done on the Russian part.
By July 2016, the Chinese portion of the bridge was finished but work had not started on the much shorter Russian portion.
In December 2016, work began on the Russian portion of the bridge.
Design
The bridge has been designed by Russia's Giprostroymost institute, satisfying both Russian and Chinese standards. The bridge will have both a standard gauge (1435 mm) track and a Russian gauge (1520 mm) track; however, the two tracks will be offset by merely 800 mm, so that only one track could be used at any given time.