24Received 03.06.2025. Revised 09.06.2025. Accepted 16.06.2025.
Acknowledgements. This article was prepared with the support of a grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation for major scientific projects in priority areas of scientific and technological development no. 075-15-2024-551 “Global and Regional Centers of Power in the Emerging World Order”.
Abstract. The article contains the analysis of China’s “green” strategy in practical dimension, formed on the basis of the “ecological civilization” concept of the early 2000s up until the beginning of the global crisis of the 2020s. The development stages of the state environmental policy within five-year plans, forms of the country’s participation in the global “green transition”, and the achieved results are considered. State regulation of the economy, political and social spheres in China is an effective tool for the consistent implementation of economic and political strategy. Five-year development plans include clearly defined goals in all areas, comprising environmental policy. The latter, on the one hand, was initially aimed at solving China’s main environmental problems that arose as a result of the rapid industrial development of recent decades, and on the other hand, is closely linked to the implementation of the global “green transition” strategy proposed by Western countries, which has become the political and economic mainstream throughout the world. The authority of the state power in China, as well as efficiency in implementing state development plans made it possible to achieve the planned results in each five-year period, and in some cases to exceed them. These economic achievements, including in the field of “green transition”, became a significant factor that predetermined the place of the PRC in the global economy and geopolitics. At the same time, the current geopolitical situation allowed China to oppose its “green” development model to the dominant Western model already by the beginning of the 2020s (although the environmental indicators achieved by that time were still far from perfect). The subsequent global crisis of the COVID‑19 pandemic did not change, but only strengthened this trend, and the following geopolitical confrontation of the great powers enhanced the role of China as a world center of power.
Keywords: China, five-year plan, environmental problems, green strategy, environmental policy, green economy, green transition, green finance, green technology, crisis
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