The goal of energy development in the Russian Federation through 2050 is to achieve a qualitatively new energy sector, ensuring a balance between energy security, economic and environmental indicators, and the convergence of public and private law regulators. Achieving this goal will require improving legal regulation models for relations in the Russian energy sector, including taking into account the general trends in legal regulation of the energy sector in the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China identified in this article through a comparative legal analysis