Scientific Director of the Center for migration studies, Institute of economic forecasting Russian Academy of Sciences Zhanna Zayonchkovskaya said that by 2050, the Chinese may become the second largest nation in Russia.
According to her, in China only the unemployed more than the Russian population as a whole. If China maintains a strong relationship, then by 2050, the Chinese can circumvent the migration of the peoples of Central Asia, the expert added.
Now the main “donors” of Russia are Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, increased the flow of migrants from Ukraine. Russia will have to properly develop economically, to the population of other countries, and here, in addition to China, there is no alternative, said Zayonchkovskaya.
According to demographer, the change in pension legislation will not be able to align the situation with the decline of the working population. She noted that according to the FMS, international migration in Russia in 2015 to 9.8 million people.
