Mikhail Mishustin: “The results must be palpable and understandable to the people, so that we have thousands of modern schools, kindergartens and sports facilities, that we renovate many cultural and higher education establishments, modernise the housing and utilities sector and upgrade public transport.”
Mikhail Mishustin holds strategic session on extending national projects until 2030
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Good afternoon, colleagues.
In his Address to the Federal Assembly, the President outlined a number of strategic objectives to be attained by 2030, including through the implementation of national projects. All of them are aimed at promoting the country’s development, improving the quality of people’s lives and strengthening the nation’s economic potential.
The projects we are implementing now have become key instruments in the Government’s operation, which has helped us achieve substantial results.
We used primarily the governance and monitoring system that has been established at all levels of executive authority, from municipalities to the federal centre.
The system was used to monitor over 3,000 indicators in real time and helped us react to challenges, set a timeframe for the implementation of national projects and promptly adjust our activities in case of shortcomings, including based on feedback from businesses and our citizens, as the President always pointed out.
Thanks to this system, we can report a high level of achieving the planned parameters, which is actually approaching 100 percent. The situation with the implementation of state programmes and strategic initiatives is the same. As a result, we kept up with the schedule of advancing towards our national goals set by the President for the end of last year.
We have implemented a range of measures that are significant for the development of our society, which enabled us to support the economy and promptly adapt it to new challenges, and to continue moving forward in spite of external pressure.
This is clear from the GDP growth rates. Allow me to remind you that last year, the gross national product increased by 3.6 percent. And this was only the first estimate. The trend continues in 2024. In particular, the Ministry of Economic Development has estimated January’s growth at 4.6 percent. In certain industries, growth rates showed double digits at the beginning of this year. These include the production of computers, electronic equipment, furniture, leather goods, textiles and a number of others.
The ongoing national projects are ending this year. But our current imperatives are still relevant, and moreover, they call for continued government support of growth in all sectors, in all spheres.
In his annual address, the President announced several far-reaching breakthrough goals.
To achieve independence in a number of sensitive fields, new national projects should be launched as early as next year, a technological sovereignty project and the Personnel national project. They should promote the development of domestic technologies to protect people’s health, the evolution of all types of transport, as well as robotics, machine tools, space exploration, nuclear and other types of energy.
It is also extremely important to continue the development of our cities, towns and social facilities. We need to take appropriate measures to improve demographics, to support motherhood and childhood, upgrade our healthcare and education systems. That is, we are to make dedicated efforts to improve the quality of life of our people. Three national projects – Family, Long and Active Life and Youth of Russia – will address these goals, among others.
The results must be palpable and understandable to the people, so that we have thousands of modern schools, kindergartens and sports facilities, renovate many cultural and higher educational establishments, modernise the housing and utilities sector and upgrade public transport.
These are big projects, each requiring the allocation of appropriate resources. And most importantly, we need to make clear plans and oversight systems to ensure that federal funds are spent as efficiently as possible.
This is a lot of work. We need to match all possible measures with the final results we want to achieve. This should definitely include using feedback from citizens, businesses, and the expert community, as well as the management and monitoring system I mentioned at the beginning, which is a key element in the management of all government programmes.
Colleagues,
These documents will determine the main trends in the country’s development for the next six years. And we need to think through every detail, to identify the final results, which should incorporate the tasks outlined in the President’s address, and to focus our efforts and our funding on those results. It is our job to make our country continue to change for the better.
