Humanities & Social Sciences 8 (2016 9) 1727-1738 ~ ~ ~ УДК 811.581:339.92 The Chinese Language as a Factor of Economic Development and Russian-Chinese Cooperation Promotion in the Krasnoyarsk Territory Ekaterina V. Eremina*, Tatyana K. Verenich and Elena V. Chistova Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 15.03.2016, received in revised form 14.05.2016, accepted 09.07.2016 The article describes the results of a Roundtable discussion on the problem of how to organize the effective interaction between Krasnoyarsk business and human resources of Siberian Federal University to promote Russian-Chinese collaboration. <...> Consequently, the experts give consideration to the language, culture, information, and technical barriers of international cooperation that exist between the representatives of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Asia-Pacific Region. <...> The organizers reveal the results of a marketing survey about the importance the Chinese Language for people in the 21st century. <...> Moreover, they show the ratio of supply and demand in the translation service market of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. <...> The educators discuss what competencies a modern translator from/into Chinese must have and how to prepare well-qualified interpreters in a 4-year term. <...> In conclusion, the participants managed to identify the main objectives for the future: to organize intercultural consulting activities for business structures of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and China, suggest a 1-year business Chinese course for citizens, improve the curriculum and develop contract cooperation between institutional and business structures of Krasnoyarsk. <...> Keywords: Siberia, Asia-Pacific Region, academic community, business, education management, training of translators and interpreters, the Confucius Institute. <...> Introduction Since the 90s of the previous century Oriental Studies have developed from luxury specialty of several major universities in the country to one of the most widely represented and popular areas of high school, especially in Siberia and the Far East. <...> This phenomenon today has rather qualitative © Siberian Federal University. <...> Social request and the raising demands for skilled orientalists defined as the change in local conditions (growing influx of migrants from Asia, mostly from China, with the gradual change of the priorities of their arrival) and geopolitical strategies of the country and the region, more and more active positioning Ekaterina V. Eremina, Tatyana K. Verenich… The Chinese Language as a Factor of Economic Development… Russia in the Asia-Pacific Region (e.g., active participation in the SCO), the strategies of foreign economic activity of Krasnoyarsk, the Krasnoyarsk Territory as well <...>