Environmental Factor in the Recent History of Interregional Relations between Russia and China

This article examines the problem of regional environmental policy and resource consumption as the key reason for the current state of the Russian regional economies, which are financially dependent on the Chinese domestic market. At the same time, the scale of the influence of Chinese business on the environment of Russian regions was studied from a scientific point of view as a direct consequence of this dependence. In this regard, a historical reflection of the bilateral regional relations of post-Soviet Russia and the PRC in the field of ecology was carried out, the main stages of Russian resource dependence on the PRC were highlighted, the assessments of Russian and foreign scientists regarding the problem were studied, the role of ecology as a factor determining the current development vectors of both interregional and interstate relations between the Russian Federation and the PRC was evaluated. In particular, the negative aspects of the widespread approach, so-called “complementarity of economies”, are considered as the main indicator of the erroneous regional eco-resource policy in Russian relations with the PRC, the consequences of which concern both the national ecology and the national economy.