Mikhail Mishustin: “To achieve technological sovereignty and leadership across various sectors, as outlined by the President, we must intensify the development of our domestic technological and production capabilities in the coming years.”
Mikhail Mishustin chairs strategic session on the national projects New Nuclear and Energy Technologies and New Materials and Chemistry
Mikhail Mishustin chairs strategic session on the national projects New Nuclear and Energy Technologies and New Materials and Chemistry
Mikhail Mishustin chairs strategic session on the national projects New Nuclear and Energy Technologies and New Materials and Chemistry
Mikhail Mishustin chairs strategic session on the national projects New Nuclear and Energy Technologies and New Materials and Chemistry
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Good afternoon, colleagues.
We are continuing to develop new national projects. To achieve technological sovereignty and leadership across various sectors, as outlined by the President, we must intensify the development of our domestic technological and production capabilities in the coming years.
These national projects are designed with a primary focus on addressing these critical objectives.
The first project focuses on an industry where Russia has historically held a robust position: the fuel and energy sector and nuclear energy.
This project entails ten federal projects aimed at elevating our nation into the top ten globally in scientific research and development expenditure volume. Moreover, it seeks to raise domestic expenditure in these areas to a minimum of 2 percent of the gross domestic product.
Let’s begin with the nuclear energy sector. The plan is to elevate it to a new level by establishing a dual-component nuclear energy system featuring a closed fuel cycle, an unprecedented innovation globally. This includes constructing the world’s first complex comprising a fast neutron reactor and an automated facility for reprocessing spent fuel. This initiative aims to recycle remaining fissile materials effectively.
Furthermore, substantial advancements are required in controlled thermonuclear fusion and innovative plasma technologies. By 2030, achieving full operational readiness of the tokamak vacuum chamber using reactive technologies is essential. This facility represents Russia’s proprietary plasma confinement system, with planned operational capabilities set for 2035. This project aims to unlock opportunities for groundbreaking solutions, products, and entire fields of science and technology, ranging from more efficient electricity generation to cutting-edge space technologies.
There are plans to implement various measures in the field of special materials and advanced R&D projects. The same concerns Rosatom’s systemic efforts to build and operate high-capacity and low-capacity power units and reactors. Another section of the national project aims to develop power industry sectors not directly linked with nuclear energy. We aim to support projects in the field of solar batteries, wind power plants and the manufacturing of power storage systems and technologies. These measures should facilitate drastic green energy transformations using renewable energy sources.
Our efforts will encourage multiple affiliated sectors to address important issues of people’s lives. This includes municipal transport systems and the introduction of environmentally friendly electric vehicles in cities and the creation of jobs in high-tech industrial segments.
Additionally, we will support the implementation of current projects and the introduction of new projects in the field of liquefied natural gas, oil and gas production and power generation. The second national projects deals with new materials and chemistry. As the President has emphasised, this backbone sphere facilitates overall economic stability.
This sector has been developing actively in the past four years. Last year, the manufacture of small- and medium-tonnage chemical products exceeded 2020 levels by over 25 percent, or more precisely, by 26.1 percent. We launched three production projects, including those for manufacturing hydrogen peroxide and polymer additives.
We will subsidise part of loan interest payments, as well as high-tech R&D projects.
The chemical sector has continued to grow since early 2024, and has expanded by over 6 percent (6.4 percent) in the first five months of 2024.
We need to support such aspirations. A project for expanding the output of chemical products will become a basic federal project, part of the national project. There are plans to create dozens of new technological chains, as well as over 150 production facilities, by the end of the decade. We will establish entire development ecosystems based on federal competence centres. Notably, this will make it possible to support multirole cities. Usolye-Sibirskoye should have one such centre.
We have also drafted a federal project for expanding the production of composite materials. Its implementation will make it possible to develop and introduce about 20 advanced products.
Under a federal project, we will ensure that our geological prospecting agencies search for rare and rare-earth metals and other resources for the economy.
The President has emphasised the need for this. We will launch investment projects that involve the conversion of raw materials into high-tech products. We will create over 60 products, and it is also necessary to establish over 15 new production facilities.
We need to expand the human resources potential to ensure the entire sector’s sustained performance in the long term. It is important to establish mechanisms for constantly updating educational programmes, including mentorship that has already won a reputation for itself in all economic sectors, particularly in production facilities.
The development of chemistry and the new materials sphere will contribute
to steady economic development. We aim to increase the gross value-added levels
of the chemical sector and the new materials industry by at least 40 percent compared
to 2022. We must make sure that our enterprises achieve top positions in terms
of their effectiveness and competitiveness, as directed by the President. It is
also necessary to make headway in strengthening the country’s long-term
technological and industrial sovereignty.
