Maria Plotnikova, head of the Laboratory for Urban Development and Social Innovation, acting head of the department of social and economic disciplines at ISU International Institute of Economics and Linguistics, participated in the scientific-practical conference “The Great Tea Road and Russian architecture in the city of Wuhan” (China) where she presented a lecture “The Great Tea Road and the formation of regional identity in the cities of Eastern Siberia in the late XVIII - the second half of the XIX centuries.”  After the conference, Maria Plotnikova received a proposal from the Chinese colleagues to publish her works on the Great Tea Road in scientific journals of China.