China Keywords:, 60th anniversary, Russia-China, reforms Sixty difficult years - what has China come to during this considerable historical period? Are China's economic, political, administrative, and social reforms successful? What are the results and prospects of cooperation between the two countries - Russia and China, each of which has been following its own path for these six decades? These and many other issues were discussed at the international forum at the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences. On October 1, 2009, celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China were held in a solemn atmosphere all over China - from Urumqi to Shanghai and from Harbin to Guangzhou. This glorious anniversary and summing up the results of 6 decades of diplomatic relations between our countries were on the agenda of the meeting of Sinologists " 60 years of China. Sixtieth anniversary of diplomatic relations of the USSR/Russia and China (1949-2009)" (XVIII International Conference " China, Chinese Civilization and Peace. History, modernity, and prospects"). It was organized by the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the Integrated Study of Modern China in cooperation with the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (with financial support from the Akademia Social Protection Fund and President of the Chinese-Russian Chamber of Commerce (Hong Kong) Huang Xiaodong). More than 150 participants from Russia, CIS and far-abroad countries discussed all aspects of the development of the state, which after 60 years of search, trial and error showed the world the possibility of building socialism with Chinese characteristics in a single country, which is taking leaps and bounds from poverty to the status of a world superpower. The conference was opened by Academician M. L. Titarenko, who in his welcoming speech noted that a number of major celeb ... Read more