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It will provide Jilin and Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province with more convenient access to the sea port, promote domestic trade and revitalize Northeast China's aging industrial base, analysts said.

In the past, goods from Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces needed to be transported to Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, and then transferred to Shanghai, South China's Guangzhou or other parts of the country, adding to shipping times and costs, Liang Haiming, dean of Hainan University's Belt and Road Research Institute, told the Global Times on Monday. If transferring through Vladivostok in the future, the land transportation distance can be shortened by more than 800 kilometers, and the cost will be greatly reduced.

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