Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I te tau 1897, ka noho a Rūhia ki te Liaodong Peninsula, ka hanga i te pā o Port Arthur, ā, ka noho te Russian Pacific Fleet ki te tauranga. Ko te whiwhinga a Ruhia ki Port Arthur he nekehanga anti-British ki te aukati i te noho a Ingarangi ki Wei-hai-Wei, engari i Japan, i kiia he nekehanga anti-Japanese. I noho a Tiamana ki Jiaozhou Bay, i hanga i te pa kaha o Tsingtao
, me te turanga o te Tiamana East Asia Squadron i roto i tenei tauranga. I waenga i te 1897 me te 1903, i hangaia e nga Ruhia te Railway o te Rawhiti o Haina (CER) i Manchuria. Ko te Railway o te Rawhiti o Haina i whakawhiwhia e nga kawanatanga o Ruhia me Haina, engari ko te whakahaere o te kamupene he Ruhia katoa, i hangaia te raina ki te raina Ruhia me nga hoia Ruhia i tu ki Manchuria ki te tiaki i nga waka tereina i runga i te CER mai i nga whakaeke a nga kaipahua. Ko te tari matua o te kamupene CER kei te taone hou i hangaia e Ruhia o Harbin, te "Moscow o te Rawhiti". Mai i te tau 1897 ki muri, ko Manchuria - ahakoa he waahanga tonu o te "Great Qing Empire" - ka tiimata te ahua o te kawanatanga o Ruhia.