Demographic Aspects of the Development of Border Municipalities of Russia and China in the Context of Their Border Policies

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	Regionalistica 2023 Volume 10 number 5 pages 77-100

Title of the article	Demographic Aspects of the Development of Border Municipalities of Russia and China in the Context of Their Border Policies
Pages	77-100
Author	Kireev Anton Aleksandrovich candidate of sciences (political science), associate professor FEFU Institute of Oriental Studies – School of Regional and International Studies 10, Ajax Bay, Russky Island, Vladivostok, Russia, 690922 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0003-0274-4030
Abstract	The adoption in 2015 of the Concept for the Development of Border Territories in the Far Eastern Federal District was the milestone in the process of identifying Russian border municipalities as a special object of state policy. The purpose of the article is to assess some intermediate results of the implementation of this Concept in the demographic sphere. Based on a comparative analysis of municipal and regional statistics, the author examines the current spatial distribution of the population in the border areas of Russia and China, its dynamics in 2012–2021, as well as the impact of the border policies of the two countries. The study leads to the conclusion that measures to optimize border infrastructure and establish preferential regimes, taken in the Russian Far East since the mid-2010s, could not change the negative trends in the demographic development of border municipalities.
Code	327+314
DOI	10.14530/reg.2023.5.77
Keywords	border municipalities, transborder relations, demographic processes, border, border policy, Russia, China
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For citation	Kireev A.A. Demographic Aspects of the Development of Border Municipalities of Russia and China in the Context of Their Border Policies. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2023. Vol. 10. No. 5. Pp. 77–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/reg.2023.5.77 (In Russian)
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Financing	The study was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as part of the scientific project No. 20-511-93005.
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