Outstanding quotes from EEF 2019 about the Far East

As part of the EEF 2022, the Roscongress Foundation and VTsIOM conducted a survey to determine the perception of the Forum by its participants.

On the eve of EEF 2019 , Alexander Kozlov , minister for the development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic, sat down with us to discuss the results of the past few years and went into detail about the ministry ’ s plans for the near future.

The pandemic has sent shockwaves through the global economy, and has delivered a clear message to all nations: there can be no future without international cooperation, digitalization, and high-quality healthcare. It is not enough to possess rich reserves of natural resources — steps also need to be taken to boost investment initiatives and enact positive social change. Today, these aims are beginning to be fulfilled with the introduction of advanced special economic zones and other incentives in the Russian Far East.

More and more, Russia and China are declaring joint interests in politics, the economy, technological development... Is the relationship more of a partnership or a competition? Why is it so hard for us to negotiate with the Chinese? To find the answers to these questions, we talked to Dr Sergey Luzyanin, Professor, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and author of the book Russia and China: Creating a New World.