СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВО ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО КОРИДОРА КИТАЙ–РОССИЯ–МОНГОЛИЯ В КОНТЕКСТЕ ГЛОБАЛЬНОЙ ЭПИДЕМИИ

Abstract

This article is one of the results of the 2020 Basic Research Fellows Funding Program of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Innovation Engineering Fellows Funding Project “Development of Strategic Cooperation between China and Russia in East Asia: Content, Problems and Prospects”. This article includes the materials of a video conference on the topic “Construction of the China–Russia–Mongolia economic corridor in the context of the global epidemic”, conducted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Research Center of the Far Eastern Federal University in May 2020. The article is devoted to the problems and prospects for the construction of the China–Russia–Mongolia economic corridor in the situation of the pandemic of coronavirus pneumonia, it is noted that the determination of the status of the development of the China–Russia–Mongolia economic corridor, an analysis of the opportunities and problems of its development, which can help these countries to restore the economy after the epidemic. The article provides an overview of the construction of the China–Russia–Mongolia economic corridor before the epidemic, when significant progress was made in such areas as infrastructure communications, the possibility of unhindered trade, financial flows, personnel cooperation, the construction of international road and railway corridors, etc., it considers the impact of the epidemic on the construction of the China–Russia–Mongolia economic corridor (sharp decline in total trade between countries, reduction in financial resources, etc.) the possibilities and problems of joint construction of the economic corridor in the post-epidemic era are analyzed, proposals are put forward to promote the construction of the China–Russia– Mongolia economic corridor in the main areas of cooperation: development of transport infrastructure and communications, construction of ports, cooperation in the field of production capacities and investments, trade and economic cooperation, cooperation in the field of humanitarian exchanges, cooperation in the field of ecology and environmental protection, as well as cooperation between border territories. The China– Russia–Mongolia economic corridor should become a new area of regional economic cooperation, the goal of the construction should be to take care of creating a common future in Northeast Asia, to create a legal and institutional framework for the unhindered implementation of specific cooperation projects in the construction of the corridor after the epidemic.