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South Korea, China, Mongolia and Russia have agreed to develop a “world-class” travel destination near a North Korean river that flows along the borders with China and Russia, Beijing’s state media reported.

The agreement was reached at a meeting of tourism officials from the four nations in northeast China’s Hunchun city in Jilin province as part of the Greater Tumen Initiative (GTI) supported by the United Nations Development Program, according to the China Daily.

“The Northeast Asia region has become one of the fastest-growing tourism destination regions in the world and we hope to build up the region to be a world-class tourism destination,” Zhao Xiaojun, director of the Jilin Provincial Tourism Administration, was quoted as saying.

Zhao suggested that the GTI could learn from “the cross-border tourism experiences” of the EU and North America, and build the region to be a cooperative area of the Tumen River Delta, the daily reported on Sept. 22.

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