China's Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Russia Work for Further Development

Cooperation between northeast China's Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Russia is moving toward further development, said Zhang Anshun, Communist Party chief of the prefecture.

Yanbian is the only Korean autonomous prefecture in China. Located on China's northeastern border with Russia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), its unique geological importance gives it the name of the Golden Triangle of Northeast Asia.

Initiated by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), China, Russia, the DPRK, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Mongolia launched a joint development project in the Tumen River area in 1992, a move to strengthen regional cooperation in the area.

(Source: Xinhua)