История развития китайского города Харбин в системе межмуниципального сотрудничества с Россией (1993 г. по настоящее время)

Abstract

The aim of this article is to consider the specifics of the regional development of the northeastern city Harbin in the system of partnership, sister city inter-municipal cooperation with Russian cities Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, Krasnodar and Murmansk. Special attention is also paid to the prospects and opportunities in maintaining intermunicipal cooperation between Harbin and the Russian cities. Chinese researchers (Zhang Xiujie, Ma Xiaohe, Yu Yabin, Du Lizhu, Yang Qingshan, Zhao Yichun, Yu Bingyan, Li Tuliang) consider the peculiarities of the economic, geographical, historical transformations of Harbin, a northeastern city in China. Until now, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the modern interaction between Harbin and the Russian cities Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, Krasnodar and Murmansk in Russian and Chinese research. Plans for regional transformations in the province of Heilongjiang at the beginning of the 21st century. aim to revive the old industrial bases in Northeast China. The key role in this process belongs to Harbin, a historical and cultural city, the northeastern center of the economy, politics, trade, culture, science and technology; a future big data storage and processing center in North China; the city of an innovative model of ecological construction of the digital economy of the northeast of China. The history of Harbin’s regional development shows this city is a space of historical integration of cultures of different countries, it is a famous historical city with a great cultural heritage and distinctive features of multiculturalism. In regional transformations, Harbin pays special attention to the inter-municipal interaction with foreign cities. After the normalization of Soviet- Chinese relations in 1985, practically the entire Northeast of the PRC played a leading role in restoring ties with Russian cities and regions. The modern development of Harbin in cooperation with the cities of the world is built on the basis of the implementation of the global project of the New Silk Road – the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative. The Chinese side is interested in moving the dialogue with Russian sister cities from humanitarian cooperation to multi-vector partnerships. Harbin attaches great importance to inter-municipal cooperation with foreign cities under the Chinese concept of “foreign affairs for the people”. The Russian cities Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, Murmansk, Krasnodar became Harbin’s sister cities; their cooperation since the early 1990s has developed in various directions. The experience of inter-municipal twinning, partnership cooperation accumulated over the past decades between Harbin and Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, Murmansk, and Krasnodar can serve as a basis for further interaction between the Chinese city Harbin and other Russian cities.