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Modern China: Internal and External Challenges at a New Stage of Reforms

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This article is based on a presentation at the meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences on September 24, 2019. It analyzes new trends in the development of the People’s Republic of China and emphasizes the need for updating approaches to study of the economic and political transformation of modern China. The decline in economic growth that is determined by the influence of domestic economic processes and aggravated by restrictions on exports to the United States has forced the Chinese leadership to pay increased attention to innovation and labor productivity. Awareness of the need for deepening market reforms and enhancing openness to the outside world is combined with a policy of supporting state-owned enterprises and the implementation of government economic programs. The recentralization of political power, re-ideologization of public life, and re-Sinifization of ideology and culture are highlighted as the key features of China’s modern domestic policy. This article considers new trends in the development of social sciences and humanities related to the search for a new Chinese identity supported by the authorities.

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The author is deeply grateful to the participants in the discussion of the report at the meeting of the Presidium of the RAS on September 24, 2019.

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On June 5, 2019, Xi Jinping, Chairman of the People’s Republic of China, and Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, signed a joint statement in Moscow on the development of a comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction, which signified entry into a new era. The parties agreed to hold mutual exchange years of Russian–Chinese scientific, technical, and innovative cooperation in 2020 and 2021 in order to strengthen bilateral ties and personnel exchanges and to promote business contacts that form new, more flexible mechanisms for interaction between state and commercial structures as well as private entrepreneurs and investors.

A meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences was held on September 24. In advance of the exchange years, it is necessary to conduct an objective analysis of the problems in China’s development at a new stage of transformation, assess the potential of scientific and technical cooperation between Russia and China, identify areas of mutual interest, and develop recommendations that can enhance the effectiveness of bilateral cooperation in the field of science.

The relevant reports were made by the Doctor of History A.V. Lomanov and Doctor of History S.G. Luzyanin.

The Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences will publish the materials presented there as well as a survey of the main approaches and viewpoints expressed during the discussion by Corresponding Member of the RAS V.L. Larin, Doctor of Political Science Ya.V. Leksyutina, Doctor of Political Science A.D. Voskresenskii, and Academicians A.A. Dynkin, Yu.Yu. Balega, V.N. Charushin, V.N. Parmon, and O.N. Favorskii.

Translated by I. Pertsovskaya

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Lomanov, A.V. Modern China: Internal and External Challenges at a New Stage of Reforms. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 90, 1–8 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331620010189

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