«New Angarstroy» as a Project of Non-Raw Materials Integration of Economies of Russia and China

The article is dedicated to the project «New Angarstroy» (Baikal-Amur Superindustrial Complex) which is being developed, first of all, to meet the needs of the development of the Russian economy, as well as in the context of non-raw material cooperation of Russia, China, Mongolia and other countries. The authors explain the expediency of the transition from a raw-material model of economic integration of Russia and China to a non-raw material one. They outline the «New Angarstroy» project, a key part of which is the organization of the largest metallurgical production of national scale, including a high-quality full-cycle ferrous metallurgy (with iron direct reduction and electrometallurgy) and titanium-magnesium industry. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the transport component of the project as the railway transport plays an important role of in the functioning of the technological flow-stage scheme of the superindustrial complex, the enormous scale of the planned production and, accordingly, the transported cargoes, certain limited capacity of the main Siberian railways. It is planned to organize the transportation of products in the internal production cycle of the Baikal-Amur Superindustrial Complex according to the pendulum principle; the authors identified the need to implement large-scale programs for the radical modernization of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal-Amur Mainline and the entire Siberian railway system. They describe the benefits of constructing the railway connection of the Transsib and BAM by the Mogzon - Novy Uoyan line with the goal of ensuring effective transition of products of «New Angarstroy» across the external international pendulum - Central Russia - Northeast China.