| 1 | Sino-Russian border island to open to tourists. | |
| 2 | The Russians, who had settled on Bolshoi Ussuriysky, did not want to abandon it. | |
| 3 | The former Soviet Union occupied Heixiazi and Yinlong Islands in 1929, and this had not been accepted by China. | |
| 4 | Heixiazi Island is a sedimentary island at the confluence of the Ussuri and Heilongjiang rivers, along the border between China and Russia. | |
| 5 | The state-run China Daily newspaper reported that Russia will return Yinlong Island (known as Tarabarov Island in Russian) as well as half of Heixiazi Island (Bolshoi Ussuriysky in Russian) to China. |