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The Experience and Potential of Scientific Cooperation between Russia and China (A Case Study of the Angarsk City District)

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Topical issues of Russian–Chinese cooperation in the field of science, municipal planning and investment policy are outlined using the model territory of the Angarsk city district, one of the largest industrial centers of Siberia and the Far East, as an example. 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 lens 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 under 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 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, whose positive results 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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  1. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia

    E. Yu. Aleksandrov & P. V. Rykov

  2. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China

    Dong Suocheng, Li Zehong & Yang Yang

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Aleksandrov, E.Y., Rykov, P.V., Suocheng, D. et al. The Experience and Potential of Scientific Cooperation between Russia and China (A Case Study of the Angarsk City District). Geogr. Nat. Resour. 42, 172–179 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1875372821020025

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