Blagoveshchensk-Heihe Cable car

Chronicle

2025: Construction Begins

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.^[1]

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