Suifenhe 绥芬河

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Suifenhe is the core port for trade and tourism with Russia in Northeast China: a station was set up when the Chinese Eastern Railway opened along its full length in 1903, earning it the title of the railway's 'Foremost Station of the Far East'

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A national key cultural-relics protection complex preserved in Suifenhe's urban area: Russian-style station buildings from around 1903, the site of a former Orthodox church, and the 'Human Head Building' of the Chichagov Tea House (a five-story red-brick building with carved human-head reliefs on its cornice) stand in a row — one of the best-preserved Russian-style building clusters along the Chinese Eastern Railway

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Comprehensively presents the history of the Chinese Eastern Railway, port trade, and the 'Red Silk Road': the core exhibit is the story of delegates to the CCP's Sixth National Congress secretly crossing the border through Suifenhe in the 1920s and 1930s, supplemented by a century of change in China–Russia border trade and local folk customs — a miniature museum of big history in a small city

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Suifenhe's third-generation National Gate is the landmark building of a national first-class port of entry: from the 'Foremost National Gate of Northern China' viewing platform you can gaze into Russian territory and at the long line of freight trains at the rail port

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One of the larger Buddhist temples in Northeast China on the outskirts of Suifenhe: the Seven Medicine Buddhas Hall is grand and well-proportioned, earning it the reputation of "the Foremost Temple of the Northern Land"

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Jiandong Russian-Style Street and the Russian goods market are Suifenhe's culinary and shopping calling cards: Russian tiramisu (honey cake), kvass, candies, and binoculars are the main items; Russian bakeries bake big leba (Russian bread) fresh, and Russian restaurants serve authentic borscht and skewers

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A mountain park on the outskirts of Suifenhe: Tianchang Mountain and Dijiu Mountain face each other, their names together meaning "everlasting love," making the valley a popular wedding-photo destination

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Asia's largest underground military fortress, built by the Japanese army during WWII to guard against the Soviet Union: hundreds of thousands of Chinese laborers were forced to build it from 1934 to 1939

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Suifenhe National Forest Park and Jinguang Temple share the hills on the city's outskirts: Korean pine forest trails are walkable in all seasons, and in winter the ski area opens beginner and intermediate slopes

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Suifenhe is known as "the taste closest to Russia": Russian leba (bread), borscht, Kiev-style skewers, and Northeastern pig-slaughter feast (shazhucai) are mixed on the same table, and Russian supermarkets sell ready-to-eat goods