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The report is devoted to the analysis of the trade and economic aspect of China's strategic cooperation with Tajikistan, which began after the signing of the Joint Declaration of the Heads of State of Tajikistan and China on the Establishment of Strategic Partnership Relations on May 20, 2013 in Beijing. The paper examines the bilateral regulatory framework in the trade and economic sphere over the past ten years, analyzes the bilateral mechanisms for the implementation of trade and economic dialogue between the two countries. Based on the open statistical data of the two countries, their mutual trade, the structure of exports and imports, dialogue in the investment sphere are studied, including an overview of the main projects, as well as issues of lending and economic assistance, their dynamics, and priority areas of cooperation. The comparison of economic indicators is carried out both in general and for individual years of the period under review and is compared with the indicators of the previous stage of relations between the two countries. Problematic issues in bilateral trade and economic cooperation are being identified. The author concludes that China occupies one of the leading positions as a foreign economic partner of Tajikistan. The main problems of bilateral trade and economic cooperation between China and Tajikistan are the negative balance of Tajikistan's foreign trade balance in trade with China, the debt (credit) dependence of this country on China, the dominance of Tajikistan's raw material exports to China over non-raw materials, which requires its diversification.