Manzhouli City, a land port bordering Russia in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, will see more than 20 million tons of cargo for Russia this year, with a trade turnover of 2.5 billion U.S. dollars, the official has said.

That will be an increase of 2.48 million tons of cargo volume and 800 million U.S. dollars of trade turnover over last year, according to Zhang Jinghua, director of the Manzhouli Port Office.

Manzhouli is China's biggest land port, bearing 60 percent of the volume of land transportation between China and Russia.

With the steady trade relationship between China and Russia over the past few years, China has been importing crude oil, log, chemical products via the Manzhouli port.

Meanwhile, China has exported textiles, garments, building and decoration material, household electrical appliances and firebricks to Russia through this trading port. Auto and vegetable exports have become highlights since the beginning of this year, Zhang said.

Manzhouli does business with more than 40 countries and regions including Russia, Poland, Hungary, Japan, Mongolia, Singapore, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

In 2006, Manzhouli will input 20 million yuan (2.5 million U.S. dollars) to enlarge the capacity of the the land port and improve the service, according to Zhang.

Source: Xinhua