Trains in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, loaded with imported crude oil and wood are waiting to be re-transported to the rest of China. Manchuria, a Chinese and Russian border city, has become a tourist and trade hotspot. In 2009, the volume of freight imported and exported through the city exceeded 25 million tons and the number of tourists it received surpassed 2 million. In August 2010, the freight volume and the number of tourists surpassed 100,000 tons and 50,000 a day (LI XIN)