The vehicular bridge, which opened in the summer of 2022, spans the Amur River, connecting Heihe city in China's Heilongjiang province with Blagoveshchensk, the capital of Russia's Amur region.
The amur leopard is considered to be facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild, with a 2007 census counting only 14-20 adults and 5-6 cubs in the south-western Primorye region of Russia.