China’s Border Trade amid Global Challenges

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	Regionalistica 2024 Volume 11 number 3 pages 46-63

Title of the article	China’s Border Trade amid Global Challenges
Pages	46-63
Author	Izotov Dmitry Aleksandrovich doctor of economics, leading research fellow Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0001-9199-6226
Abstract	The purpose of this study is to analyze the dynamics and structure of Chinese border trade in the context of current global challenges. Border trade is an important source of economic development for some Chinese regions, despite its small share in China’s foreign trade. The article identifies changes in Chinese border trade in the early 2020s: restrictions related to COVID-19 contributed to the development of other forms of trade; sanctions against Russia stimulated an increase in the share of border trade in favor of the EAEU countries. It is shown that the PRC’s border trade was constrained by direct supplies of goods, underdeveloped border infrastructure, the small scale of border markets, informal trade and the «frozen» border conflicts. The implementation by China of different models in the development of border trade has been revealed. An increase in the share of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the border trade of the PRC was discovered, which has become a trade hub between China and the EAEU countries. It is shown that in North-East China, the bulk of trade turnover with Russia was formed by direct supplies of goods, bypassing border trade, indicating stagnation in cross-border cooperation between countries in the Far Eastern territory.
Code	339.5+332.1
DOI	10.14530/reg.2024.3.46
Keywords	trade turnover, border trade, COVID-19 pandemic, sanctions, region, China, Russia, EAEU
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For citation	Izotov D.A. China’s Border Trade amid Global Challenges. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2024. Vol. 11. No. 3. Pp. 46–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/reg.2024.3.46 (In Russian)
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