Suifenhe

Suifenhe is a county-degree town in southeastern Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, positioned situated in which the previous Chinese Eastern Railway crosses the border with Russia's city of Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai. In January 2014 Suifenhe became the most effective Chinese metropolis wherein buying and selling with Russian Ruble is permitted. The metropolis stocks its call with the Suifen River, and is below the management of Mudanjiang Prefectrure-stage City. Suifenhe and the surrounding border regions have been scenes of vicious combat while the Soviet Union invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria in August 1945.

The Environmental Investigation Agency conducted an investigation in February 2008, within the illegal logging of Russian wood, which was taking area in Suifenhe. The main supplier of the wood, Wal-Mart, has lately acknowledged that the practice in Suifenhe is unlawful, beneath Russian law, and has committed to stop all unlawful sales of timber in six years. Suifenhe is one of the factors in which China's and Russia's railway structures connect. The rail line, which crosses the Sino-Russian border right here became initially built as the Chinese Eastern Railway in the early 20th century. The train station on the alternative facet of the border is Grodekovo, inside the metropolis of Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai.