| Аннотация | Currently, the world community is united in the problems of sustainable development of territories and enterprises, achieving carbon neutrality and transition to environmentally friendly forms of energy. An important element in solving these problems is the greening of public and personal transport, the motive power of which is based on high-power batteries. At the same time, the key component in batteries is lithium, which has already received large-scale use in a number of high-tech industries. Despite the fact that Russia ranks 14th according to lithium reserves, with about 1 million tons (0.95%) in its territory, lithium is not mined in the Russian Federation, and until 2022 the raw material was imported from Latin American countries. Rising prices for lithium, as well as a growing demand from electric car manufacturers, have increased interest in development of lithium projects among Russian companies such as Rosatom, Gazprom and Norilsk Nickel. In China, on the contrary, lithium production has increased 103-fold over the past 30 years – from 320 thousand tons in 1994 to 33 million tons by 2023, and the share of China in global production has increased by 13 percentage points, from 5.2 to 18.3%. Jiangxi Province can be considered the richest province, with large reserves of lithium minerals. This article aims to elaborate on conceptual directions for lithium production development in Russia and China as a key industry in transition to a green economy and achieving carbon neutrality. The information base for the research includes publications of domestic and foreign authors on the following issues: greening of global industry; reducing carbon footprint; features of lithium mining and production, as well as its use in electric vehicles. When writing the article, scientific methods such as comparative analysis and generalization, analysis and processing of statistical data were used
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| Ключевые слова | Russia, China, lithium mining, lithium battery production, sustainable development, carbon neutrality, energy transition, batteries
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