Official data showed that in the first half of 2017, about 830,000 cross-border trips were made by road travel through the Manzhouli port.

Timur said that in the city of Zabaikalsk with a population of more than 10,000, a majority of people have been to China and many can speak Chinese. His restaurant's menu is trilingual -- written in Russian, Chinese and Mongolian.

An international railway runs through Zabaikalsk, where Chinese trains have their wheels changed for wider Russian rails and vice versa. Currently, 41 rail routes connecting different Chinese and European cities pass through this Russian border city.

Zabaikalsk witnessed the inflow of Chinese machines, home appliances, garments and daily necessities and the outflow of European aircraft and vehicle components, clothes, as well as Russian lumber, paper pulp and other materials.

Data showed that in the first 10 months this year, 325 trains entered China through the Manzhouli port, up 45 percent year on year, while 762 trains left Manzhouli, up 9 percent.

Local authorities have been renovating the century-old Zabaikalsk railway station to cope with surging freight volume.

Wang Xiwei, a businessman from Inner Mongolia, said at the railway station that Russian products, such as candies, beer, chocolate, flour and cooking oil, sell well in China, and his company's imports of Russian food have doubled this year.

A taxi driver said he has been to Manzhouli and he liked it. "I hope that one day Zabaikalsk will be as prosperous as Manzhouli," he said.

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