EXPERIENCE AND POTENTIAL OF SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION OF RUSSIA AND CHINA (A CASE STUDY OF THE ANGARSK CITY DISTRICT)
E.Yu. ALEKSANDROV1, P.V. RYKOV1, SUOCHENG DONG2, ZEHONG LI2, YANG YANG2
1V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 664033, Irkutsk, ul. Ulan-Batorskaya, 1, Russia
2Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Datun Road, 11A, China
Keywords: investments, reindustrialization, science, economic potential, geographical expedition, international relations
Abstract
Topical issues of Russian-Chinese cooperation in the field of science, municipal planning and investment policy are outlined by using, as an example, the model territory - the Angarsk city district, one of the largest industrial centers of Siberia and the Far East. An assessment is made of potential socio-economic and geopolitical effects and risks in the course of the implementation of the international infrastructure initiative of establishing the China-Mongolia-Russia economic corridor as well as the need to modernize the Trans-Siberian Railroad (Transsib), including in the form of a high-speed railroad. A retrospective review of the evolution of the investment climate of the Angarsk city district is provided through the prism of resource and raw materials, and energy and infrastructure projects of regional and transnational significance. Problems and difficulties of selecting new structural-investment and sectoral priorities of the regional economy in the conditions of continuation of the raw material inertial line of development are revealed. The conditions and factors of reindustrialization of the economy at the present stage, and also the directions of investment activity with the participation of foreign capital in the context of individual industries and enterprises of the city district are identified, the positive results of which can have a synergistic effect and ensure the transition from the raw-material to innovative model of economic development not only of Angarsk city district but also of Siberia in general. An assessment is made of the differences, priorities and prospects of international cooperation in terms of the “science - municipal management - business” triad. It is based on the scientific and applied research results of the Russian-Chinese interdisciplinary expeditions in the period from 2015 to 2018 during which the main directions and approaches of joint scientific and practical activities on the basis of research institutions of the geographical profile of Russia and China were developed and agreed upon. The study used methods of comparative-geographical and retrospective analysis, as well as GIS technologies and analysis of statistical patterns.
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