Peace and development are the main topics of the modern world, China sticks to a peaceful path of development and on this basis forms an independent peaceful foreign policy and its fundamental principles. After the policy of "reform and opening up", humanitarian cooperation significantly contributed to the development of China's soft power, and made a great contribution to the development of the domestic economy and social stability. In recent years the Chinese government has been actively developing public diplomacy striving to strengthen the relationship between China and the world, increase mutual understanding and trust in each other. This article is devoted to the study of Russian-Chinese humanitarian cooperation. The author pays special attention to the study of cooperation between countries in the field of public diplomacy.