China Buys Natural Resources in Siberia

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Andrew Kramer, Bridging the Divide in Siberia; China’s Hunger Fuels Exports
in Remote Russia. New York Times, June 10, 2010 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/business/global/10ruble.html?scp=1&sq=kramer%20china&st=cse

Note:
(a) Jewish Autonomous Oblast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast

* oblast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast
(Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic countries)

(b) Amur River 黑龙江
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_River
(It rises in the hills of western Manchuria at the confluence of its two
major affluents, the Shilka River and the Argun River; flows east; joined by
Songhua River; at Khabarovsk further joined by Ussuri River)

(c) The caption to photo #4 in the photo gallery mentions
Heihe 黑龙江省黑河市, which includes the historical town of Aigun 瑷珲.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe

(d) fungible (adj; Latin to perform--more at FUNCTION): "of such a kind or
nature that one specimen or part may be used in place of another specimen or
equal part in the satisfaction of an obligation"  Webster (3rd ed, 1961)

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