The article deals with the specifics of the current phase of development of Russian-Chinese relations marked by the influence of globalisation and the need for convergence in a rise of aggressiveness of the external world. The author shows, that taken by the Russian leadership resolute course to diversify Russia's economic policy, strategic shift to the Asia-Pacific region opens up for our relations tremendous opportunities not only in trade and economic cooperation.

The view prevails that Russian foreign policy was traditionally Western-oriented. The author disagrees with this view and analyzes opportunities and challenges facing Russia nowadays in the Asia-Pacific Region.

The article investigates the ways of development of Russia and China in the era of globalisation and studies the differences in the design and implementation of their economic models. The author shows that the economic development of China today is associated with a number of significant problems (scarcity of natural resources, weakness of the internal market, environmental issues, etc.). Nevertheless, the economic growth of China, which has taken a dominant position in the Asia-Pacific region, today is a definite challenge for Russia, because for our country the breakthrough in the Asia-Pacific region is associated with the prospects of long-term cooperation with China.

Like the Earth, the world is bipolar and China has been one of its poles through most of the human history, as it will be in the 21st century. Its book of books - the Book of Changes (or the Yi Jing) - foreruns the binary code of all computer programs, and hieroglyphics may become the language of international communication on the Internet. In the visual world of today pictures oust words and the old culture of characters gets a new life. Thus sinology becomes a universal science of the humanity's past and future, of the dialog between civilizations and of the fate of Russia.

The article investigates the new social and economic technologies, some of which belong to the successful Chinese experience and can be applied in Russia under the conditions of the current economic crisis.

The article exemplifies an analysis of four poems by Du Fu that shows how meticulously and precisely the great Chinese poet followed the teaching of Confucius. For Du Fu harmony of Nature and humankind is an axiom of everyday life, which is reflected in the mentality of Chinese people. This explains why the teaching of Confucius is treated not as a philosophical trend, but as a modus vivendi. This is the message that Du Fu conveyed in images and association parallels which peculiar to the human mind.

The article treats one of the most urgent issues concerning the relationship between two concepts, at first sight radically opposed to each other - the concept of moral integrity, or virtue, and that of profit, the latter being regarded in a broader dimension than mere material gain. The issue is considered from a diachronic perspective. And the conclusion that profit and virtue are embedded in human social, ethical, and economic development is set as a foundation to the contemporary view on personal prosperity and degradation. Modern society, with its inevitable crises, relies upon the solution of the issue in question as a panacea from egocentrism and avarice, self-interest and mindless consumerism.

The article analysis the achievements of China over the past 35 years since the beginning of the ambitious reform. The article presents principal features of the country’s modernisation, which was carried out in accordance with the mentality of the Chinese people.

The article suggests a brief history of China's modernisation in the 20^th and beginning of 21^st century. The author reveals the specificity of the modernisation associated with the ratio of old and new, experience of everyday life of people, and regional projects. The author holds that political modernisation and mobilisation of masses are less important in the modernisation of China. Flaws of Russian modernisation today in comparison with the Chinese experience are characterized by weakness of modernisation prerequisites in everyday life, lack of region-specific projects of modernisation, and prevalence of political modernisation over economic and scientific-technical modernisation.

China, as opposed to what they say about his strategy in the US, is not going to either challenge the existing world order or fit into it. China, trying to avoid open confrontation with the United States and Western countries, builds his own parallel world, based not so much on geopolitics, but on geo-economics. And already by its very existence the modern China proves the possibility of path different from the West.

This article analyses an experience of economic reform in China, which began in the end of 70s of the 20^th century and is being under way for more than 30 years. In comparison with economic reform in Russia reforms in China are not connected with fast liberalization of economy, but its main goal in China is a transition from planned to market economy step by step. Science plays a decisive role in elaboration of transition model to market economy. A shift of directive economic figures in favor of indicative figures is a base for Chinese economic reforms. As a result, for the period of economic reforms China achieved a great success in comparison with Russian economy.