ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY KYZYL-URUMQI
It is shown that the construction of the railway through Tuva and Mongolia to China is one of the most difficult and interesting problems, both from an economic and from a geopolitical point of view. Of course, the solution of this problem will open new opportunities for trade and economic relations, including the import and export of goods not only in Mongolia and China, but other cross-border countries of Central Asia. Let us point out that the most important and profitable in the freight railroads will likely become the export of coking coal in China, which in recent years is experiencing a huge deficit for the capacity utilization of its steel plants. If international railway will be built along the Kyzyl – Ulangom – Hovd – Urumqi, almost all large and medium field regions of southern Siberia will be in demand in the markets of mineral products both in Russia and abroad. In the result of the analysis, the optimal option in which on the basis of the tripartite international Treaty between Russia, China and Mongolia funded by the state, the above-mentioned countries on the shares specified in the contract, is funded 50?% of the capital costs provided in the estimate for the construction of the railway along the Kyzyl-Urumchi, and private investors – the rest.