Mikhail Mishustin: This can only be successful if we implement effective measures to furnish Russian industries with most recent developments and innovations, expanding the consumer choice of high-quality domestic goods and, in a broader sense, cementing Russia’s sovereignty even further in the face of unprecedented sanctions.
Mikhail Mishustin chairs strategic session on technological leadership
Mikhail Mishustin chairs strategic session on technological leadership
Mikhail Mishustin chairs strategic session on technological leadership
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Good afternoon, colleagues.
We have met for a regular strategic session of the Government to discuss ways to ensure Russia’s technological leadership. This is one of the national goals proclaimed by the President in his May Executive Order.
This can only be successful if we implement effective measures to furnish Russian industries with most recent developments and innovations, expanding the consumer choice of high-quality domestic goods and, in a broader sense, cementing Russia’s sovereignty even further in the face of unprecedented sanctions.
We have launched eight national projects, each focusing on a key sector where it is critical for the country to gain independence from foreign technologies and supplies.
Among them are innovative materials, chemistry, production and automation equipment, energy, space, aircraft and shipbuilding, and innovative transport. Other significant areas include medicine, pharmaceuticals, food security, and civilian unmanned aerial systems.
In the very near future, all initiatives will be considered at a meeting of the Presidential Council for Strategic Development and National Projects, before they are launched on 1 January 2025. The necessary funds for their implementation have been earmarked in the federal budget.
Within a few months, we will prepare another national project, Bio-Economy, and will start building regional infrastructure for the use of biological raw materials. We will develop unique technologies that are in demand in agriculture, ecology and the creation of medicines.
We will continue to expand a number of priority areas under current government programmes that focus, in particular, on radio electronics, industrial and scientific and technological development.
I would like to note that all new national projects – Data Economy, Personnel, and International Cooperation and Export – will contribute to opening local production facilities and increasing output of goods.
Thus, the framework for further efforts to ensure technological leadership has already been practically shaped. Its main components have already been determined. We are to interconnect them within the single plan on achieving national goals, which is being developed and consolidate all lists of critical and end-to-end technologies. We also need to adopt a classifier to track their development in various sectors, unify many sectoral methods, including related to the evaluation of production readiness, and create a digital environment that would help science and industry representatives understand more exactly each other’s needs and possibilities.
The relevant legal regulations were tested on time and introduced in the draft federal law on technological policy. This document is being considered by the State Duma and has passed the first reading. We expect the deputies to have time to adopt it in December. And most importantly. In order to achieve significant results, it is necessary to synchronise our efforts. I am referring not only to the actions of ministries, departments, regions and businesses, but also to the developers and manufacturers of knowledge-intensive products and, of course, educational and scientific institutions.
Applied work should be provided with the best specialists, for which the opening of advanced engineering schools remains a priority. At the same time, it is necessary to improve interaction between technical universities and enterprises, so that each university is assigned specific tasks for research and planned personnel training.
Colleagues.
I propose to consider now in detail approaches to achieving the national goal of Technological Leadership, including the development of the manufacturing industry, digitalisation, and the attraction of private investment.
We will pay special attention to the management system, which should be based on a transparent measurement model, with metrics, socially significant results that most accurately take into account the indicators of output of products, of the development and application of modern solutions in most diverse sectors of the economy.
