Chinese Agricultural Business in Russia: Lessons and Experiences
Against the background of President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin hailing economics at the heart of their bilateral relationship, Putin conveyed that economic cooperation and trade are important to the revitalization of China and Russia. Likewise, President Xi Jinping noted that Russia and China bask in unprecedented great confidence and collaboration. Such amicable relationships may translate into enhanced economic cooperation and Chinese foreign investment in Russia. This paper employed a retrospective review and attempted to analyze Chinese agricultural engagement in Russian Far East, in addition to examining what was dubbed as land grabbing in Russia, probing into the political, economics, and human dimensions on the land debate. Such an analysis is significant as it contributes to the literature on foreign investment in agriculture.
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[1] Staff writer, “China’s Xi praises ‘best friend’ Putin during Russia visit,” BBC News, June 6, 2019.
[2] S. Liao and J. Liu. “Russia plans to give China one million hectares of land for agricultural projects,” Yicai Global, August 14, 2018.
[3] P. Stronski and N. Ng, “Cooperation and competition: Russia and China in Central Asia, the Russian Far East, and the Arctic,” Carnegie endowment for international peace, February 28, 2018.
[4] A. S. Bowen and L. Rodeheffer, “Is Russia losing control of its Far East?, “Diplomat, October 1, 2013.
[5] P. Zeihan, “Analysis: Russia’s far east turning Chinese,” ABC News, January 7, 2006.
[6] Staff writer, “Russia’s Medvedev hints of Chinese threat to Far East,” Reuters, August 9, 2012.
[7] Staff writer, “China to set up 15 Bln USD fund for joint projects with Russia,” Xinhua, September 8, 2017.
[8] J. Zhou, “Balancing resource expectations in the Russian Far East,” Stockholm international peace research institute, August 2, 2017.
[9] G. Voloshin, “Land Grab case lays bare the frailty of Russian-Chinese relationship,” Eurasia Daily Monitor, 12, 118, June 24, 2015.
[10] O. Wang, “China food security: country faces ‘grain supply gap of 130 million tonnes by 2025’ as rural workforce dwindles,” South China Morning Post, August 18, 2020.
[11] Asia Investment Research, “Russia’s Pivot to China – Geopolitics, Trade, and Development in the Wake of the Ukraine Conflict,” China Briefing, April 14, 2022.
[12] Staff writer, “Russian poultry exports booming thanks to China,” Poultry World, February 19, 2020.
[13] A. Litvina, “Agriculture as fastest-growing segment of Sino-Russian trade,” Realnoevremya, October 1, 2020.
[14] C. Wang, “China, Russia to expand economic, energy and agriculture cooperation,” Global Times, December 2, 2020.
[15] Staff writer, “China, Russia set new record for agricultural trade in 2020,” Tass Russian news agency, January 28, 2021.
[16] L. Cornish, “Understanding China's foreign agriculture investments in the developing world,” Devex, April 30, 2018.
[17] R. T. Gudaj, F.Yi, S. Mishchuk, T. A. Potenko, I. Zuenko, Z. Lerman, “Impact of Chinese agribusiness entrepreneurs on the local land market in the Russian Far East,” Land Use, pp. 1-28, April 2020.
[18] E. Gooch and F. Gale, “China’s foreign agriculture investments,” Technical Report USDA, Economic Research Service, pp. 21-27.
[19] N. Kapoor, “Russia-China relations in the Russian Far East,” Observer Research Foundation, July 16, 2020.
[20] S. Malle, “Russia and China in the 21st century. Moving towards cooperative behavior,” Journal of Eurasian Studies, 8, pp. 136-150, 2017.
[21] N. Horie, “Contested space in the Russian Far East: Land and migration along the Russo-Chinese borderlands,” Eurasia Border Review, 2016.
[22] J. Zhou, “Land grabbing, conflict and agrarian-environmental transformations: perspectives from East and Southeast Asia.”An international academic conference, conference paper no. 34, May 2015.
[23] Z. Dashdorj, “China’s threat to Russia’s Far East: Real or perceived?,” Geopolitical Intelligence Services, December 6, 2018.
[24] Staff writer, “Ethnic Chinese in Russia,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_Chinese_in_Russia, accessed May 24, 2021.
[25] M. Luxmoore, “On Russia’s far eastern frontier, vast stretches of free land, but little interest,” Radio Free Europe, September 20, 2020.
[26] P. Zeihan, “Analysis: Russia's Far East Turning Chinese,” ABC news, January 7, 2006.
[27] O. Alexeeva, “Chinese migration in the Russian Far East: A historical and sociodemographic analysis,” China Perspectives, 3, 2008.
[28] X. Su, “The myth of a Chinese takeover in the Russian Far East,” The Diplomat, June 19, 2019.
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