After Russia’s split with the West, the cooperation between China and Russia appears to have been growing stronger in the age of globalization. In 2014, China and Russia signed agreements to build the Power of Siberia gas pipeline and high-speed railway connecting Beijing and Moscow (Bloomberg, 2015). There were also proposals to discontinue using the US dollar and instead start using the Ruble and Renminbi for international trade between the two countries (China Daily, 2010). Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is increasingly seen as a potential center of the multipolar world (European Parliament, 2015). As reported in the extensive media coverage, the leaders of China and Russia are positive and confident that the Sino-Russian relations now have entered into an era of long-term mutually beneficial cooperation (China Daily, 2015).
It has been repeatedly recognized that Chinese and Russian business has huge potential of cooperation and complementarity, especially in areas such as energy, infrastructure,tourism and media (cf. Gabuev, 2015). However, despite the increasingly warm and encouraging relations between the leaders and governments of the two countries, businesses between China and Russia are often operating rather cautiously due to the lack of understanding of each other’s culture, institutions, business practices as well as the lack of necessary administrative and legal support. Moreover, the Sino-Russian business relationships have been underresearched and the focus on management and organization issues in Sino-Russian business relationships has been rare. In order to alter this situation and to build up vibrant academic connections among scholars who are interested in Sino-Russian business relationships, we organize this Professional Development Workshop (PDW) that covers a number of related ChinaRussia topics at the three levels of cooperation between the two countries, i.e.government, business and society. A special focus is on the opportunities of complementarity and cooperation between Chinese and Russian businesses in the era of globalization.

The topics to be addressed include:
1. Sino-Russian economic and business relationships over time
2. Sino-Russian business negotiation
3. Managing multinationals' subsidiaries in China vs. Russia
4. Internationalization of firms: China vs. Russia
5. Management of Sino-Russian joint ventures
6. Intercultural communication between Chinese and Russian managers
7. Guanxi vs. Svyazi
8. Institutions and business networks: Chinese, Russian, and West European markets