A total of 83 swimmers from Heihe City of northeast China's Heilongjiang
Province and Amur Region of Russia swam across the Heilongjiang
River on Saturday.
Forty of the swimmers are from China while the rest from Russia.
They all successfully crossed the boundary river of the two
countries and received flowers and thundering applauses from the
cheering local people.
Organizers of two countries awarded cups and commemorative
certificates to the swimmers.
After crossing the river, swimmers would make friendly visits in
both countries.
It is the forth time that swimmers from the two countries
crossed the boundary river as the economic, trade, cultural and
sports exchanges between the two sides have been warming and
upgrading.
(Xinhua News Agency July 24, 2005)
