Foreign Media: Why Not Sell Things To Chinese Neighbors?

New York Times article June 9th, original topic: erection across

The gold mine in Siberia is 1 square miles, and birch and cedar forests can not be seen at all.

Like many parts of Siberia, there are few people here.

But Russian geologists say that under the surface is iron ore that is capable of producing hundreds of millions of cars.

This is the reason why Chinese officials and business executives are so interesting that even the Sino Russian border has been distrust for 10 years.

This year, a delegation from China came here by helicopter.

"Billions of tons of iron ore are at my feet," the head of coal miner told the Chinese guests.

He recalled, "they said," take it easy. We are ready. "

This brief meeting is a sign of the upcoming performance in the region.

For resource hungry China, Russia's metals and ships are pported by land.

Those who are skeptical about the further development of the two sides say that the deep distrust of the two sides can be traced back to 1969.

Until 1987, Wen Ni koff, the current governor of the Jewish Autonomous Prefecture, persuaded Moscow to allow ferry trade in a village near the Amur River (Heilongjiang, China) - editor's note.

Today, he has become a staunch supporter of the largest trade and investment project across the Amur River, a cross river railway bridge to pport iron ore from China to China.

This bridge is another symbol of the new prospect of the area.

It will become the only railway line that is open all year round on the border between the two countries.

The larger cross-border projects under way now will be oil pipelines running through Siberia.

For China, pporting oil from Central Asia and Russia by land means a more long-term goal: to change the current situation of relying heavily on shipping in the Middle East and Malacca Strait.

Chinese companies have also leased large numbers of empty Russian farmland in the Far East, encouraging Chinese migrant workers to go there for seasonal labor.

So far, 850 thousand acres of land have been leased by Chinese companies.

The Chinese are pushing down the price of Russian resources. If the Chinese do not pay, the huge mineral resources in East Siberia will not be so valuable.

The Russians argue that without their goods, Chinese buyers can only buy more expensive goods from far more suppliers.

For Russia, the trade with China contains a bright prospect in the new prosperous era.

Kask Andrianof, the head of a gold mine, is riding a jeep to inspect the huge open-pit gold mine.

He not only buys Chinese mining machinery, but also hire Chinese truck drivers.

"China is our nearest neighbor," he said. "If we have something our neighbors want, why not sell it to our neighbors?"