E. I. SAFRONOVA Candidate of Economic Sciences Far East Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences China Keywords: developing countries, political and economic course, mutual cooperation, new features Relations between China and developing countries are a complex set of links, contacts and dependencies, so that new moments in these relations can manifest themselves in a variety of areas. A relatively new development is that developing countries have found their own niche in the concept of a "harmonious world", which is recorded in official party and state documents of the People's Republic of China. According to Beijing, harmonizing the activities of the world community without improving relations between developed and developing countries is extremely problematic, because the "intertwining of traditional and non-traditional security threats" is becoming more and more pronounced on the world stage, there is an "imbalance in the development of the world economy" and the widening "gap between North and South". Therefore, "building a harmonious world requires the joint efforts of all members of the international community", in particular, in "resolving the imbalance of the world economy"1, which is aggravated by its uneven development. Since the 1980s, Beijing has consistently emphasized "the growing weight of third World countries (TM) in international political life, which no one can turn a blind eye to."2. At the same time, the Chinese leadership is aware that the "third world" as a single community, united by one goal and a common past, existed only in the ideological attitudes of the XX century. The heyday of the Non-Aligned Movement has passed, and the similarity of historical destinies in the past and many current economic challenges are no longer sufficient grounds for long-term strategic partnership relations. With this in mind, Beijing takes a clearly differentiated approach to developing countries. And not only at the regional or continental level, but als ... Читать далее