North Asia mainly refers to the part of Russia in Asia, with a total area of 13 million square kilometers, including the Outer Northeast. The area of the Outer Northeast is about 1 million square kilometers, and the plain accounts for one-fifth, about 200,000 square kilometers, including the Jieyahe Plain and the Outer Sanjiang Plain, which is about 57% of the Northeast Plain. More than 90% of the population of the Russian Far East is distributed in the Outer Northeast, especially in the plains on the border between China and Russia, with a total population of about 5 million.
Outer Northeast
Although the climate is colder than that of Northeast China, the accumulated temperature conditions are relatively poor, and it is more suitable for planting cold-tolerant crops such as soybeans, but in the future, with global warming and the temperature rise in Northeast China, its agricultural potential is immeasurable, and it may be a "granary".
Black soil
At present, the Waisanjiang Plain and the Jieya River Plain are one of the important agricultural production areas in the Russian Far East, the soybean output accounts for 75% of the entire Far East, the existing cultivated land area is about 50 million mu, only 16% of the total of the three northeastern provinces of China, the undeveloped cultivated land is about 100 million mu, the agricultural potential is very considerable, if all the development can produce 60 million tons of grain, feeding 100 million ~ 200 million people is not a problem.
Outer Sanjiang Plain
Russia is a big country in terms of resources, and the credit for this is naturally indispensable. The precipitation in the Outer Northeast is the same as that in the Northeast or even higher, and the whole region is basically covered by the Heilongjiang River Basin, with a dense river network and abundant water resources. The forest coverage rate of the outer northeast is as high as 70%, about 700,000 square kilometers, of which the total timber reserves of Primorsky Krai are about 1.75 billion cubic meters, which is 1.16 times that of Heilongjiang, and the log resources are very rich.
Map of forests in Russia
In addition, the region's mineral and energy reserves are also in the forefront of the world, the precious metal gold has been mined about 2,000 tons, has been close to China's current gold reserves, iron ore reserves of about 4.4 billion tons, oil and gas resources are mainly distributed in Sakhalin, has proven oil about 7 billion tons, is twice that of China, natural gas 3.1 trillion cubic meters, close to half of China, is the Russian Far East absolute "main oil and gas production area".
Map of the distribution of resources in Russia
The Outer Northeast also has an incomparable natural advantage over other North Asian regions, namely its 12,000-kilometer coastline and a number of ice-free and semi-ice-free ports facing the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean, such as Mokowai and Vladivostok. Among them, Vladivostok is not only a military port with an excellent strategic location, but also a commercial port responsible for the internal transportation of materials and the export of resources to the entire Far East, as well as the transit of trade in the two provinces of Heiji in Northeast China.
In the future, once the Arctic Ocean route is opened, the Outer Northeast, as the starting point, will naturally have the advantage of being close to the water and getting the moon first, and its importance will be further advanced.
Haisangang
On the other hand, in other regions of North Asia at higher latitudes, the climate is colder, and agriculture is completely incapable of development, and even normal mining is affected, and even if there are coastlines and ports, most of them are of little value because of the freeze. As for the southern region, although the accumulated temperature can meet the needs of agricultural development, it has no coastline and no outlet to the sea, and it cannot be compared with the outer northeast.
Therefore, the Outer Northeast is definitely the best piece of land in the whole North Asia, but the current degree of development is still relatively low, and the development potential is very large.