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The first cross-border railway bridge linking China and Russia is nearing completion as workers began fitting the last girder over the Russian side on Monday. The bridge is 7,193m long and is on the Heilongjiang River, also known as the Amur River in Russia. It will connect the city of Tongjiang, in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, with Nizhneleninskoye in Russia. The main bridge spans 2,215m, with 1,886m of that standing in China. Construction of the bridge, which has a designed annual throughput capacity of 21 million metric tons, began in February 2014.