This week at Vladivostok Events were held IV Forum of the regional legislative assemblies and the people's congresses of North East Asia.
The greatest interest was in the past the business center "Hyundai" plenary session of the forum, during which participants discussed the current problems of the region. Toneasked a discussion of the regional parliament speaker seaside Victor Gorchakov. Designating the steps that have already been made and are being made today in the development of the integration process, the head of the regional Legislative Assembly did not shy in his speech and of the problems that can not find a solution. This, in particular, the implementation of the idea of visa-free regime for transit passengers, for example, following through on Zarubino Zarubino transit corridor - Kraskino - Hunchun and back, raising the low level of service while at the checkpoint and the passenger terminal "Zarubino" build the capacity of automobile checkpoint "Kraskino" where the need to increase working hours, especially in the days of arrival and departure of the ferry, as well as synchronize with the Chinese Border Crossing, which will increase the throughput speed of movement of goods and passengers.
An extremely interesting and informative presentation was deputy chairman of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress of Jilin Zhou Huachen, which, however, is not surprising against the background of attention with which the whole world is watching the rapid growth of Chinese economy. Sufficient to evaluate only one, as if casually tossed a passage from his speech: "In the context of complex domestic and international economic environment in Jilin Province through a dramatic economic development, with a growth rate of over 12% for nine consecutive years." Hand on heart - we are in such a growth rate can only envy. Some of the terms of this breakthrough, Mr. Zhou Huachen also cited in the report, some fragments - to heighten the understanding of how to act (and articulate), our neighbors - it makes sense to quote here in full: " In August 2009 the Chinese government approved the" Concept of Cooperation in the Tumen River Area - the area of "Chang-Ji-Tu" as an experimental zone development and openness. " In this project, the city of Hunchun is given as a window to the outside world, the cities of Yanji, Tumen and Longjing - the role of the leading edge, and the cities of Changchun and Jilin - the role rears. These cities will liaise between the border and the hinterland, to make a breakthrough, to play a leading role in the development zone to form a powerful economic recovery and an experimental zone of openness After the completion of construction and commissioning of the highway Changchun - Hunchun the journey between the two cities was reduced from ten five hours. Completed construction of the first in the north-eastern region of the high-speed railway between the cities of Changchun and Jilin, in an accelerated mode is building a passenger rail line Jilin - Hunchun, made the expansion and reconstruction of airports in the cities of Changchun and Yanji - thus, the capacity of the number of passengers will increase significantly "
In this case, the Russian business (and government) should not have to sit back and expect that due to capacity expansion of China's domestic transit now in our ports gush increasing with each passing day freight. It is something Can, and will gush, but far-sighted Chinese are not going to put their eggs in one basket: Zhou Huachen again, as if in passing, noted that the importance placed on a similar capacity transit (with the creation of the infrastructure at the expense of Chinese investment) through the North Korean port of Rajin.
No less interesting were the reports of the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Akita Prefecture (Japan) Kenichiro Sato, chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Gangwon Province (South Korea) Park Sang-soo, deputy chairman of the municipal assembly of Niigata (Japan) Chieko Aoki, chairman of the People's Congress of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture (China) Che Guante, a number of other speakers.
However, some eyebrows among observers was the fact that none of the speeches actually not touched upon the disaster, cover Northeast China and the Russian Amur - talking about the grand flood, end in which, unfortunately, can not see . The only explanation possible is that the reports were prepared in advance, and flooding is still ongoing, it is yet to be analyzed. However, the complete silence also seemed a bit strange.
At the end of the forum, the participants adopted a joint statement in which they agreed that they would make all possible efforts for the further development of friendly relations and to create favorable conditions for cooperation and prevention of threats to regional security, including environmental and technological disasters.
It was decided that the next, fifth, regional parliamentary forum will be held in September next year in Changchun City, Jilin Province (China).
Yegor Kuzmich, " New Paper in Vladivostok "
