Hunchun (simplified Chinese: 珲春市, Korean: 훈춘시 Hunchun-si) is a county-level city in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin, northeast China. It borders North Korea and Russia (Primorsky Krai) and has over 150,000 inhabitants. She was capital of Balhae between 785-793 as "Donggyeong".
Economy
Since the early 90s, the Chinese government invested a lot in transforming Hunchun into a regional economic center. On 9 March 1992 the Chinese parliament approved approved to set up Hunchun Border Economic Cooperation Zone. The national government and Jilin provincial government have invested in succession over four billion yuan in Hunchun through the 1990s.[1]
Transport
In the early 1990s, Jilin province government constructed a railway and improved the highway to Hunchun. Railway container service between Hunchun and the North Korean port town of Rajin is available via the Tumen-Namyang bridge. In addition, a new railway line was constructed which links Hunchun and Makhalino (a station on the Ussuriysk-Khasan line, 41 km before Khasan) in Russia and began operating in February 2000.[2] Hunchun port is 42 km from Posyet and 63 km from Zarubino port towns of Russia.
References
- ^ "A survey of Hunchun". Office of the TCDC/ECDC Network in China. http://www.ecdc.net.cn/regions/english/tumen/huncun_e01.htm. Retrieved on 2008-02-09.
- ^ Kawamura, Kazumi. "Nine Transportation Corridors in Northeast Asia and Their Discontinuous Points". The Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia. http://www.erina.or.jp/en/Ec/Forum2001/Session1/eKawamura.htm. Retrieved on 2008-02-09.
Coordinates: 27°42′N 110°38′E / 27.7°N 110.633°E
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