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Abstract

The article examines the modern regional history of the PRC, which includes the evolution of regional policy in the framework of the implementation of large projects for the spatial development of Western, Central, Eastern and Northeastern China in the context of building an ecological civilization. A comprehensive analysis of the implementation of projects for the development of the PRC in accordance with the world principles of regional environmental transformations is carried out by the Chinese scientific school of regional studies of ecological civilization. It is noted that the unevenness and disproportionality of the position of Chinese regions, as well as the strengthening in a short historical period of China's development of a whole complex of socio-economic and natural-ecological problems, determined a special Chinese way in choosing a model of sustainable development of China, combining the sustainability of the ecological system, the uniformity and balance of the development of Chinese regions. The article discusses the «General plan of reforming the system of ecological civilization in China». At present, in the PRC, the principles of building an ecological civilization have an impact on innovative rural regional economic construction and urbanization processes in accordance with the requirements of maintaining an ecological balance in the regions of China. At the same time, there is an uneven regional development of the PRC in terms of building an ecological civilization. Along with the leading regions in «green development» in China, there are also regions with relatively low rates of eco-civilization change, which are mainly located in Central China, some areas of Heilongjiang , Gansu and Shanxi.