Sino-Russian Trade Commercial Street Settles Down at WANDA Center, Songbei District, Harbin

On the 23th, the signing ceremony of Sino-Russian Trade Commercial Street was held in Harbin, representatives from three parties-Songbei District Government, Harbin Wanda Center and Russian merchants executeed the cooperation agreement. The Vice Mayor Zhang Xianyou attended the ceremony.

Harbin Wanda Center is located in Harbin New District Core Service Industry Belt, a preliminary scale has been established after 3 years of construction. It will be completely open in 2017, with anticipated yearly customers above 20 million, and more than 30,000 jobs will be offered, with tax paying contribution above RMB 500 million Yuan. It’s significant in performing the tourist commercial pattern of Harbin City, enhancing the urban functions and accelerating the urban development and construction. The Sino-Russian Trade Commercial Street settles down at Harbin Wanda Center is attributed this time to the establishment of Harbin New District and the national strategic planning of “one belt and one road”. Actively guided by the two levels of governments of district and municipal, the Russian commercial delegations have repeatedly come to Harbin Wanda Center for negotiations, and finally decide to settle down and to joint build the Sino-Russian Trade Commercial Street with Harbin Wanda Center.

The Sino-Russian Trade Commercial Street is located at the center of Harbin Wanda Center, planned into diversified operations, including Russian folk custom catering, Russian style art gallery, Russian style bar performance and commodity exhibition hall, etc. The wholesale and retailing development patterns will be established as well, forging the Sino-Russian Trade Commercial Street into a distributing center of Russian products and to cover the national market. Its completion is not only a friendly embodiment of the Sino-Russian relationship, but also highlighting the in-depth communication and cooperation between Harbin and Russia in economy and culture. Harbin City will support the establishment and development of the Sino-Russian Trade Commercial Street, which will accelerate the interaction and docking between the enterprises in Harbin and the Russian enterprises, and will be forged into an important platform of enhancing the Sino-Russian cooperation.