It has large concentration of metallic reserves and supports development northeast into Siberian oil and gas fields. The Eastern Frontier has received excessive state subsidies in order to push modernization, in order to ensure that regions can become self sustaining requiring fewer investments. The Trans-Siberian railroad connects industrial regions in the east. Human habitation would be difficult even under the best of political regimes and the vast exstense of permafrost makes retrieval of this region's natural resources difficult. This is a sensitive borderland between China and Russia.
China claims much of land south of the Amur River.
Russianas offered financial incentives for western residents to move east. The Far East is a sensitive region geopolitically, relations are strained between Russia and China and Russia and Japan. They are improving but not to the extent of major financial investing or trade. Russians have a large merchant marine that ply Pacific waters for fish. Centrifugal forces trouble this region.