Print Jonathan Anderson (analytical materials UBS [1] . 2007) Boom in the soft goods market? In 2004, we were the first to “play bullish” in the food market: on the pages of this publication, we for the first time predicted that in the next few years a boom in imports of agricultural products, especially grains, was expected in China [2] . . We were aware of the provocative nature of our conclusion.

Chinese culture on the scale of basic values Print Sergey Toroptsev Culture is the totality of the material and spiritual achievements of an ethnic group throughout the entire temporal and spatial continuum of its historical development. Culture as a conceptual element of theory came into the field of view of psychologists only in the second half of the last century, when it became clear that it is inextricably linked with psychology.

Print Sergey Toroptsev At the end of 2005 (three years earlier than Russia), Chinese cinematography crossed the centenary mark, celebrating this event solemnly and magnificently: with meetings, retrospectives, and awards. To commemorate the anniversary, the world's largest Film Museum was opened in the suburbs of Beijing.

Print Alena Kozlova The “Rails of Destiny” project, which the Center for Oral History and Biography of the International Memorial Society has been conducting for the second year, is dedicated to the history of the Chinese Eastern Railway. His goal is to create an accessible library of oral memories containing the life history of the “Red” and “White” Russians in China. Briefly, the history of the CER is as follows.

Print Pavel Maslovsky questions from the editor-in-chief of Otechestvennye Zapiski Nikita SOKOLOV. Pavel MASLOVSKY, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the metallurgical company Aricom, which is implementing projects in the Far East, answers There is a lot of talk now about the “Chinese threat” to Russian interests in the Far East. To what extent do you think these concerns are valid? And if so, what kind of problems does China create for Russia?

Print Maya Berzina Memoirs [1] We had to learn not French, but German - we were going to Austria, where the pope had been appointed envoy. An envoy is the same ambassador, but of a lower rank: in the great powers - ambassadors (Krasin in England, then in France; Rakovsky, then Maisky in England; Krestinsky - in Germany, etc.). In small countries there are messengers. All of them are plenipotentiary representatives, i.e. authorized representatives.

Print Vilya Gelbras The Chinese Communist Party, implementing the policy of “reform and opening up,” has gradually revised its development strategy since 2002. The results of the revision were finally enshrined in the decisions of the XVII Congress of the CPC (2007). The essence of the changes comes down to a departure from the export orientation of the economy in favor of comprehensive, socially oriented development of the country.

Print Vasily Mikheev Since the middle of the first decade of this century, new guidelines have appeared in Beijing's foreign policy. By this point, China had become a significant player in the global economy. And now he is aiming for leadership in world politics. It is important to note two points here. First, China is not seeking political leadership with the goal of imposing a communist administrative-distributive social model on the world.

Print Olga Boroch As China's economic power grows, the country's elite is increasingly thinking about increasing its intellectual influence on the outside world. This would provide China with additional competitive advantages, allowing it to take a place in the global hierarchy that corresponds to its socio-economic achievements.

Print Jacob Berger The widespread idea that China, unlike the Soviet Union, began to reform its economy first and only decades later began to think about reforming its political system is deeply mistaken. The founders of the new course, primarily Deng Xiaoping, began to talk about the need for political reforms in China almost simultaneously with the beginning of reforms in the economy, i.e., from the 80s of the last century.

Jonathan Anderson PhD in Economics at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA). Since 2003 - Managing Director of the Asia-Pacific Economic Region Department of the Swiss bank UBS. Before that, for eight years he was the representative of the International Monetary Fund in Russia.

Reference Type Medical statistics indicate that the main positive changes in the health of the population were achieved in the pre-reform period of the existence of the PRC. Over the years of market economic reforms, the pace of change for the better has become less significant. Thus, a sharp reduction in child mortality occurred immediately after the proclamation of the republic in 1949, and in the 1980s and 1990s this figure changed little.

Print Oleg Lekmanov Marietta Chudakova. New works. 2003-2006. M.: Vremya, 2007. 560 p. (Dialogue Series) The diary of Pavel Luknitsky contains the following testimony from Anna Akhmatova: “All the people surrounding Nikolai Stepanovich [Gumilyov] were destined for something... For example, O. Mandelstam had to write poetics”1.

Joshua Ramo became famous in 2004 with his short article "The Beijing Consensus", which was widely discussed both in China and around the world. The essay by Ramo, who had then ceased to be the editor of the American Time magazine, becoming a consultant to the investment company Goldman Sachs, was published by the influential British research institute Foreign Policy Center.

Print Olga Pochagina ...Everyone knows that form is just a shell, but it is precisely it that determines life [1] . In China, the state traditionally pays special attention to the functioning and strengthening of the family institution, considering it as the basis of stability and prosperity. In the philosophical heritage of Confucius, the family and the state act as the main and interconnected pillars of society.