The topic of the article is related to the actual problem of the development of musical and educational activities in modern China, the solution of which is hindered by several factors identified by the author of the article (pedagogical, parental and social). One of the ways to solve this problem is to increase the interest of children in the study of music by enriching the educational repertoire by teachers with piano works by famous composers for children and about children. S. S. Prokofiev is one of such famous composers around the world. Particularly noteworthy is the cycle of his piano pieces “Children’s Music”, written in 1935 in the USSR with the aim of replenishing the educational repertoire of children’s music schools. The plays included in this cycle have programmatic titles and are united by a common storyline that describes the events of one day in a child’s life. The author of the article reveals the educational and didactic potential of these pieces, suggests including them in the “listening to music” section of music lessons in secondary schools in China, as well as in the educational repertoire of children learning to play the piano in conditions of additional musical education. Study of Russian experience by Chinese music teachers will help with this.

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the important role of folk musical instruments in Chinese preschool musical education, as well as the need to prepare students — future kindergarten teachers in China, to use Chinese folk musical instruments in introducing preschoolers to Chinese folk music. Based on the analysis and generalization of theoretical and scientific-methodical sources, as well as Russian experience, the article reveals the potential of early education of children in elementary music playing on simple Chinese folk musical instruments in the development of their musicality.

The article reveals the contribution of Professor N. A. Astashova to the research of various aspects of the history of national public and professional music education, its theory and practice, to the work of major musicians-teachers and regional particularity. The role of the scientist in the work of the Scientific Council on the problems of the history of musical education is emphasized.

The article reveals the essence and importance of a multicultural approach to the musical education of children, as well as the possibility of applying the conceptual foundations of the educational system of T.I. and primary general musical education in China. The article also reveals the relationship, features and some practical aspects of policultural and multicultural education, their relationship with the concept of “cultural pluralism”. The main conclusion of the article is that in order to achieve the modern goals of musical education of children in China, it is necessary in the educational process to form schoolchildren’s ideas about the ethnic diversity of the country’s musical culture.

The article reflects some of the materials of the theoretical part of Liu Lu’s dissertation research devoted to the development of a scientifically based methodology for raising children’s interest in piano music based on the integration of general musical and elementary piano education in China. The study has been conducted since 2022. under the scientific guidance of T. I. Baklanova at the Department of Methodology and Technologies of Pedagogy of Music Education named after. E. B. Abdullin of the Moscow Pedagogical State University. The purpose of this article is to reveal the cultural-historical and musical-pedagogical foundations for designing this technique. The article first gives a general description of the formation and development of musical and educational activities aimed at raising children’s interest in listening to and performing piano music in the 19th–21st centuries, and then substantiates the importance of the Russian educational project “Music for All” for creating the author’s integrated method of raising interest children to piano music. This technique will be developed and experimentally tested until 2024 as part of Liu Lu’s dissertation research.