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- proper noun a city in
Inner Mongolia ,China on the border withRussia andMongolia
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Beijing and then a flight to Manzhouli, which is within spitting distance (not that I do that sort of thing) of the Russian border in Inner Mongolia.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Day and night, long trains and convoys of trucks bring Siberian logs to China through gateways in Suifenhe, in Heilongjiang, and Manzhouli in Inner Mongolia.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Day and night, long trains and convoys of trucks bring Siberian logs to China through gateways in Suifenhe, in Heilongjiang, and Manzhouli in Inner Mongolia.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Day and night, long trains and convoys of trucks bring Siberian logs to China through gateways in Suifenhe, in Heilongjiang, and Manzhouli in Inner Mongolia.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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As an ideological schism between the two Communist giants escalated into a full-blown conflict - bloody clashes erupted along their 4,300-km border in 1969 - the poor residents of Manzhouli had little contact with their Russian neighbors huddled in the Siberian cold only a few steps away.
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About $9.8 billion of goods passed through tiny Manzhouli in 2010, more than twice the amount just five years earlier.
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"Before, trade was zero, but now it is booming, and people's quality of life has benefited," says Li Yongsheng, a manager at the Manzhouli Border Economic Cooperation Zone, an industrial park founded by the government to foster business with Russia.
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A mere trickle of state-sponsored trade passed through the heavily fortified border, leaving Manzhouli's citizens dependent on a local coal mine for jobs.
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Today, however, Manzhouli is a testament to the wealth that can be created by connecting the world's great emerging economies.
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In downtown Manzhouli, Russian tourists troll for cheap Chinese-made boots and winter coats in shopping arcades, where the signs are in Cyrillic and the official haggling language is Russian.
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