DandongA 3,026-metre bridge opened to North Korea 12 years late.
China is widening trade with North Korea despite sanctions it backed in 2017.
The four-lane crossing supersedes a narrow ageing bridge, and a Kyungnam University analyst expects cargo traffic to triple or quadruple.
North Korea has not resumed tourist visas for Chinese citizens, who once made up most of its visitors.
Seoul says it is monitoring the crossing, a day after Pyongyang’s submarine cruise-missile tests.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 100+ reports worldwide
- The New York Times
- frames the bridge as evidence of China's trade expansion with Pyongyang as a counter to Russia's growing influence
- Yahoo News
- stresses the 12-year delay and the Dandong residents' hopes for North Korean living standards, with Li Qiang framing the bridge as Beijing's commitment
- Al Jazeera Online
- cites the 1961 Treaty of Friendship and its mutual defence clause, calling it China's only formal military alliance, and the six-year-high $2.3bn export figure
Sources: The New York Times, Yahoo News, Al Jazeera Online