Putin instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to consider the creation of a corridor through Mongolia and China

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to consider the creation of a Central Eurasian transport corridor through Mongolia and Western China, should from the list of his instructions following the meeting on the development of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

By February 15, 2024, the Cabinet of Ministers needs to study the issue of forming a corridor and make proposals on possible measures for its creation.

In March, at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum, Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Uss notedthat the president drew attention to the need to build new logistics corridors with access to Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. He noted that the construction of the Kyzyl-Kuragino railway line will reduce the transport load on the BAM and Trans-Siberian Railway by 20%, as well as increase foreign trade turnover with China and Mongolia.

In September, at the opening of a new section of the M-12 highway from Moscow to Arzamas, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin told about further plans for the development of the road network. He promised to bring the M-12 highway to Kazan by December 20, 2023, and to Yekaterinburg by 2024. To do this, he said, it is necessary to connect the section from Bashkiria to the Perm Territory. After which experts plan to bring the route closer to Tyumen and in parallel to Omsk, “further Novosibirsk, and so the road <...> with access to the borders of Mongolia and China, will last to Vladivostok,” said Khusnullin.