Business booms on Russian border

Fortunes have been made in northeastern city during 40 years of reform and opening-up

Many people quit their jobs to plunge into business and make money after China's reform and opening-up policy was launched in 1978.

The wave of small startups spread to Mudanjiang, in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, which shares a border of about 200 kilometers with Russia, and many have prospered on cross-border trade.