Abstract.The authors consider the current economic potential of China, which is one of the largest recipients of foreign direct investments in the world and plays a leading role in the world trade. China is among the largest recipient as well as exporters of foreign direct investments in the world. In 2015-2016, there was a further increase in the number of foreign investment projects being implemented in China, although overall growth in FDI has been declining since 2011. It should be noted that starting from 2010, the tendency of exceeding the volumes of Chinese investments in the EU over EU's investments in China remains. Factors of China's investment attractiveness have been singled out and analysed, namely: weakening of the Yuan; stimulation of domestic consumption and investment; preservation of a relatively low level of domestic prices in relation to prices in the USA and among the leading Asian exporters of industrial products; harmonization of the country's legislation with WTO requirements. The results of the analysis of GDP growth rates of China, USA and Kazakhstan for [2011][2012][2013][2014][2015] show that China's GDP growth rates are almost five times higher than Kazakhstan's ones, and three times higher than USA's ones. It is advisable to agree with the forecasts concerning the preservation of the growth rates of the Chinese economy by 6-7% annually until 2030 if the current trends of the world economic development remain.

One of the problems of mineral resource clusters` sustainable development is the creation of an economic mechanism for environmental management that ensures compliance with the principles of rational resource consumption through the creation of environmental taxation tools. The article describes trends in implementation of sustainable development through environmental taxation: environmental taxes, promotion of rational use of natural resources, application of environmental technologies, support the use of alternative sources of energy, including through the organization of trading quotas on emissions into the environment, and their applicability in Russian Federation and the mining region is evaluated. In addition, a comparative analysis of the dynamics of relative indicators of production activity, negative impact on the environment and costs to eliminate it, carried out in Kemerovo region, and justified the need to use environmental taxation tools to ensure sustainable development of the region.

The possibilities of developing the tourism industry in the Republic of Kazakhstan based on attracting investment and public-private partnerships (PPP) are examined in this article. The goal of the study is to analyze the possibilities of investing in the tourism industry of Kazakhstan with due consideration of the risk component and to determine the main strategic directions for the development of the tourism industry in Kazakhstan. The authors have analyzed the tourism regulatory practice in the Republic of Kazakhstan and identified the main problems of the tourism industry. The analysis has indicated that the large territory of the country, underdevelopment of the tourism infrastructure, and unwillingness of the tourism business to invest in its development are high-risk factors that require more global investment in the development of the tourism industry. The development of the tourism industry is supposed to be carried out with the comprehensive state support through the creation of a special system of legislative acts and favorable conditions for attracting investment and developing infrastructure. The approaches to attracting investment in various areas of the tourism industry, adopted by the leadership of various countries, have been considered. The authors have proposed recommendations for improving legislative measures and measures of state support for the tourism industry in Kazakhstan, primarily those that should secure the investment flows, based on the analysis of international experience and practice of the tourism industry in Kazakhstan. The issue of attracting international investment to the tourism industry in PPPs has been considered separately. The conclusions and proposals made on the basis of the research results can be used in the regulatory activities of specialized state bodies, taken into account when making investment decisions, and used as educational and methodological materials in the study of state regulation of tourism.

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The regular nature of emergencies and accidents indicates the need to use progressive approaches to ensuring industrial safety and labour protection of employees of the extractive industry. The use of a retrospective analysis does not allow us to take into account dangerous factors that have not been detected by the accumulated experience, and this disadvantage can be eliminated by the principles of a priori analysis, which takes into account the potential risks for this system and the factors of their occurrence in the context of a risk-based approach. The problem of studying the occupational risks of the negative impact of hazardous and harmful production factors on personnel as a result of accidents at coal mining enterprises is the area of joint functioning of the occupational health and safety management system and the industrial safety management system. In order to meet the requirements for the analysis and forecasting of occupational injury risks in methane and dust explosions under conditions of uncertainty of the initial data, there is a need for a methodological approach based on the modeling of fuzzy logical inference with a hierarchical structure. This article describes a methodology that will ensure the implementation of the requirements in the field of complex analysis and forecasting of occupational injury risk in methane and dust explosions with the detection of dangerous situations and areas, as well as take into account the results of complex analysis and forecasting.