VLADIVOSTOK AND LIANYUNGANG AS THE TERRITORIES OF ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT AND THE EURASIAN TRANSCONTINENTAL ECONOMIC AXES

The questions of formation of the Eurasian high-speed transcontinental transport corridors between three huge and actively co-operating economic spaces of China, Russia and the European Union as well as the subsequent formation of economic axes, such as the zones of advancing development along them, are considered in the article. Their formation under the conditions of globalization, general competition and strengthening of geopolitical intensity in the world is considered as a real mechanism of strategic integration of the Eurasian continental space, creation of conditions for a sustainable development of its economy and improvement of geopolitical relations between the poles. The questions of development of their initial elements, or “the eastern bridgeheads” on the Pacific coast ? Vladivostok and Lianyungang, its Chinese functional analogue, are considered together with the formation of transcontinental transport corridors and economic axes