HUANG Qing ZHANG Ping

(№.3,2013)

Abstract: In 1992, China and Russia officially established relations of friendly countries. For more than twenty years, the Sino-Russian relations have undergone the time of Yeltsin in which the relations had a leap-over development and the time of Putin and Medvedev in which the relations were pushed on in an all-round and pragmatic way. The Sino-Russian relations of strategic cooperation have won a stable development and made noticeable achievements in politics, economy, military affairs and culture, etc. The Sino-Russian relations have a firm basis of strategic cooperation against a complex and changeable international background, but also meet some problems such as a shortage of deep-level mutual trust and a long-term stagnation of economic and trade cooperation. In 2012, Putin became the master of Kremlin for the third time and the Chinese leaders collective of the central government were elected at the Eighteenth National Congress. In the year of 2012-2013, the new leaders of China and Russia had mutual visits and held the helm of the Sino-Russian strategic cooperation. The development of the Sino-Russian relations has a great potential and opportunity in the ten years to come.

Key words: Sino-Russian relation; strategic cooperation; prospect of development