Author: Mardanova, Rano

Annotation: The paper analyzes China’s experience in implementing a comprehensive green transition and explores how its strategic, financial, and technological instruments can inform Uzbekistan’s path toward sustainable development. Drawing on a comparative analysis of policy frameworks, renewable energy expansion, and green finance mechanisms, the study identifies key lessons from China’s Ecological Civilization and Carbon Neutrality 2060 strategies. The results demonstrate that China’s success is driven by long-term planning, state–market coordination and massive investment in renewable energy and green industries. Uzbekistan, through its Green Economy – 2030 program, is gradually adopting similar principles by expanding renewable capacity, introducing green bonds, and attracting foreign investors, particularly from China. However, challenges remain in technology transfer, institutional capacity, and human capital formation. The paper concludes that closer cooperation between China and Uzbekistan in clean energy, eco-industrial zones, and education could accelerate Uzbekistan’s ecological modernization and strengthen regional leadership in green growth across Central Asia.

Keywords: Green economy; sustainable development; ecological modernization; renewable energy; green finance; carbon neutrality; Belt and Road Initiative; China–Uzbekistan cooperation; environmental policy; Central Asia.

Pages in journal: 624 - 639