Blagoveshchensk-Heihe Cable car

Chronicle

2025

Use of UAVs in construction

The cable car between Russia China and stretches unmanned aerial vehicles Russian and Chinese-made. Drones will be used when pulling the cables of a cross-border cable car through Amur, which will connect Blagoveshchensk the Chinese Heihe. This was announced in May 2025 by the governor. Amur region Vasily Orlov

According to TASS, in June 2025, a rope stretch will begin using Russian and Chinese-made drone technology. First, one rope will be pulled, then a thicker cable will be stretched along it.

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Фото: Amur Region Government

The Governor of the Amur Region Vasily Orlov clarified that the work on the facility will be completed by the end of 2025. Commissioning of the equipment will take a few more months. By the next forum "Amurexpo" on the cable car it will be possible to ride.

The start of the construction of a 973-meter cable car over the Amur between Russia and China was announced in the summer of 2019. It will be the world's first cross-border cable car between the two states.

Gondolas with a capacity of 110 people each will run along the ropes above the Cupid. The capacity of the road will be 457 people per hour and 6-7 thousand people per day. Passenger traffic is expected to reach 1 million, increasing to 2.5 million people in both directions.

The construction of the cable car is carried out as part of an intergovernmental agreement between Russia and China, signed in 2015. The general contractor for the project is SiArSiSi Rus, which performs work from both the Russian and Chinese sides.

Construction is carried out by two companies - the Russian GC Region and the Chinese Jinlongang. The symbolic start of the project was given on July 18, 2019. The project budget is about ₽10- ₽13 billion.

The road will consist of two lines on two supports with two cabs and operate on a pendulum principle, similar to a funicular. The height of the cables provides for the free passage of river transport along the Amur.^[1]

Start of construction

The world's first cross-border cable car between Russia and China will cost ₽13,2 billion. Ekaterina Kuzmina, Operations Director of the Project Initiatives Development Agency (ARPI), told reporters about this on May 22, 2025.

According to Interfax, the project budget includes the construction of the terminal and the cable car itself completely "turnkey." Previously, the cost of the project was estimated at ₽12 billion, but during the work the documentation was revised and the technical part of the work was changed.

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Фото: Amur Region Government

ARPI emphasizes the uniqueness of the project, which has no analogues in the world, since cable cars are usually built within one country. The length of the route between Blagoveshchensk and the Chinese city of Heihe will be 976.28 meters at an altitude of 70 meters above the Amur River.

The flight duration will be 2.5 minutes. The cable car will consist of two independent lines with two cabins. The throughput will be 6.8 thousand people per day in each direction or 2.5 million people per year in both directions.

In April 2025, important equipment was installed at the facility - nine-ton skiffs. Experts note the complexity of this work, since the Russian passenger boarding and disembarkation station is located inside the complex, unlike the Chinese project.

Ekaterina Kuzmina noted that the Russian side chose a different construction technology for comfort reasons. On the Chinese side, the landing mechanism and station are located separately from the main building, while in Russia it is located inside the terminal.

Builders on the border shores work synchronously, the Chinese equipment manufacturer duplicates deliveries to two objects at once. The building of the passenger terminal on the Russian side is 60 percent ready as of May 2025.

The project provides for large-scale glazing, taking into account the large number of sunny days in the Amur region, in order to maximally let in sunlight. Glazing work is 20 percent complete and will be completed in the fall of 2025.^[2]

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