Экономическая оценка проекта строительства международной железной дороги Кызыл – Урумчи в увязке с освоением Улуг-Хемского каменноугольного бассейна

摘要

The present article demonstrates that construction of a railway through Tuva and Mongolia to China is an interesting and challenging problem from both economic and geopolitical points of view. Doubtlessly, the solution of this problem opens new opportunities for commercial and economic relations, including import and export of goods both to Mongolia and China and other cross-border countries of Central Asia. The authors remark that the greatest and the most profitable share of railroad cargo is coking coal exported to China, which in the last years has been facing a huge deficit for utilization of its metallurgical plants’ capacities. Should the international railway be constructed along Kyzyl – Ulangom – Hovd – Urumqi, almost all large and medium South Siberian deposits will be highly demanded on both domestic and international mineral product markets. The research leads us to the conclusion that the optimal option for Russia China and Mongolia would be a tripartite international treaty, on the basis of which the budgets of the party states finance up to 50% of capital costs provided in the estimate for the Kyzyl – Urumqi construction as per shares stipulated in the treaty, while private investors provide the rest