GAO Jixiang

(№.3,2013)

Abstract: Since the time of the Czarist Russia, Russia started to expand out toward the Far East in terms of economic and geo-political interests. In the time of the Soviet Union, Russia developed the Far East region to a certain degree because of the needs of development of heavy industry and military industry. After 2008, the Russian government tried hard to set off an upsurge of development once again in the Far East through a series of strategies and programs in view of regional economic balance and national security. Taking the situation as a whole, the Russian Far East development is not optimistic. The main reasons are: external motive force is not enough, economic rationality is to be questioned, funds and labor forces are a bottleneck and policy leading direction is not clear because the Russian policy-makers are swayed by considerations of gain and loss. My suggestion is that Chinese enterprises should be rational and pragmatic in joining in the Far East development, active in attitude, but not rash in action.

Key words: Russia; Far East development; special outline