Today the two nations describe each other as best friends
an elderly retiree brings dozens of his friends to a wind-swept customs post at Mishan on China’s side of the country’s border with Russia. “There is nothing to see or do here,” says the man, who goes by the name “Old Jiang”. He is not entirely right. Not far away, the border runs through a large, picturesque lake. A disused bridge is described as the world’s smallest connecting two countries.
Such a symbol of normal interaction once could not have existed. In 1969 Jixi prefecture, to which Mishan belongs, was the scene of border skirmishes between China and the Soviet Union that many observers feared could escalate into war. The little bridge was built three years later to facilitate talks, but it was not until the late 1980s that the two countries made peace.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, say growing tourism between the two countries is helping to strengthen their ties. In 2018 China received 2.2m Russian tourists while 1.7m Chinese went the other way. But these numbers are small compared with China’s total inbound and outbound flows, and contribute little to visitor statistics at China’s official tourist sites along the border.
Farther north along the Ussuri river, at its confluence with the Amur, lies Heixiazi, or Bolshoy Ussuriysky in Russian, a 350-square-kilometre island which the two countries agreed to divide between them in 2004 . On its side, China built a nature reserve that attracts around 600,000 tourists a year, almost all Chinese. Also on the Chinese half is an abandoned tin-roofed Russian military post, preserved to demonstrate that China managed to prise back some of its territory.
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