The agenda includes the President's instructions following the Council for Strategic Development and Priority Projects, results of working trips to the Nizhny Novgorod Region, results of the meeting of the CIS Heads of Government Council, budgetary allocations for the modernisation of federal medical organisations, and financing of the restoration of roads in regions affected by natural emergencies.
Government meeting
Government meeting
Government meeting
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Colleagues, good afternoon.
Last week, the President held a meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and Priority Projects, where the participants extensively discussed the implementation of the new projects launched this year and aimed at tackling essential issues, such as achieving technological leadership, improving the quality of life of our people, their health and wellbeing, as well as care for babies, their parents, and the elderly.
The President noted positive dynamics, while also focusing on issues that required further finetuning and prompt work, above all improving the quality of planning. This concerns such projects as Industrial Support for Transport Mobility and Production and Automation Means, and the proposed adjustment of their financing.
The conversation also focused on several technological sovereignty projects. The President once again emphasised that they should help enhance it across all industries. These features should be taken into account when drafting the budget for the next three years.
Colleagues, the President has instructed us to promptly analyse these projects to ensure they align with the stated tasks and are implemented as efficiently as possible, with clearly defined funding priorities. This is of critical importance. Today, we will focus specifically on the financial aspects related to these projects.
Second, we must accelerate the development of a sector-specific regulatory framework. Everyone involved in implementing the national project understands their responsibilities. The drafting and adoption of relevant legal acts must be expedited, with precise deadlines established for this process.
I would also like to note that the launch of experimental legal regimes must be fast-tracked. We need standardised solutions that will allow us to quickly implement sectoral regulations.
Mr Grigorenko, please work on this matter.
Third, the President devoted special attention to integrating state-of-the-art advanced inventions (that have already been developed in the sphere of drones and multiple other fields, including rocketry and the aerospace sector) into the economy. It is important that we use them more actively at enterprises, that we streamline their supplies and large-scale use. Now that the Law on the Technological Policy has been passed, it is necessary to finetune a model for financing these national projects as soon as possible, so that each of them would have its own business component. I would like to ask their supervisors to personally monitor this work.
Fourth, priorities of the spatial development strategy should be taken into account, while modifying national projects, and we should completely include all measures regarding master plans of Far Eastern and Arctic cities in these projects.
Colleagues,
The President has instructed us not to slacken the pace of our work and to start charting new goals already today, while objectively assessing our capabilities.
It is necessary to set more ambitious objectives for transforming our country and improving people’s living standards in those spheres where planned targets have already been achieved.
I would like to note once again that all presidential instructions should be fulfilled as soon as possible.
Last week, we completed a number of trips and also visited the Nizhny Novgorod Region. We toured Sarov and the National Centre of Physics and Mathematics that was established on the initiative of the President, and we spoke with students and graduates of a subsidiary of Lomonosov Moscow State University. A very good environment has been created for young people, modern equipment is available, and it is interesting to study there and to engage in creative scientific work.
We also inspected an exhibition of the electronic machine-building sector and held a separate meeting on developing high-capacity computing processes for AI technologies and the super-computer infrastructure.
It is important that we expand our own competences in these sectors, and the Government will continue to do everything possible for this purpose.
In Nizhny Novgorod we took part in the jubilee 10th conference Digitalization of Industrial Russia. By tradition it unites representatives of business, expert and scientific communities, and government authorities to discuss digital transformation of the economy. The President has set the task of providing for technological independence from foreign software. Its execution requires coordinated actions from business people – developers and customers.
Russian IT industry is effectively developing and creating highly sought up-to- date software products. These are the prospects that we saw during our visit to the exhibition.
At the plenary session we also considered in detail the performance results of our industrial centres of competence and further steps to substitute for foreign IT solutions.
Mr Grigorenko, we need to elaborate on the proposals and ideas that we heard at the conference. You should continue to work with the colleagues there and, subject to the feedback from business, draw up a list of assignments following this conference with a view to prepare decisions, including on what we talked about with you, to support the sector.
We discussed enhancing our technological sovereignty at a meeting of the CIS Heads of Government in Tajikistan. We adopted a number of important documents aimed at strengthening economic and humanitarian ties in the CIS, including the approval of the Concept of Developing Cooperation in the Light Industry and the relevant roadmap.
Implementation of planned measures will help launch joint projects with our colleagues in this sector, build up the output of much-in-demand goods, enlarge their assortment and raise the competitiveness of such production in general.
We have also signed an agreement intended to intensify partnership in heavy engineering. Together with our CIS colleagues we will concentrate on establishing cooperation chains between our producers. We are to start an efficient exchange of technologies and competences.
We will increase our systemic interaction in support of the volunteer movement as well, and establish a Forum of the CIS Volunteer Movement. There plans to hold such first event in Kazakhstan. Thousands of enthusiastic young people from Commonwealth countries will be able to join forces to implement meaningful initiatives and share their best practices.
Colleagues,
The CIS member countries are our closest neighbours and key allies. As the President noted, strengthening partnerships across all sectors within the Commonwealth meets the fundamental interests of our nations. It is important that all the agreements we have reached are fully implemented. Please monitor this in your areas of responsibility.
Now about the decision we made to preserve our people’s health.
The head of state stressed the importance of focusing on medical science and supporting strong institutions that combine research and clinical practice.
To this end, the government will allocate approximately 20 billion roubles to federal medical organisations. These funds will be directed toward equipping institutions with advanced medical technology, enabling the continued provision of advanced, high-tech care, including the use of nuclear medicine.
A total of 87 institutions will receive funding, among them the Petrovsky Russian Scientific Centre of Surgery, the Rogachev National Research Centre for Pediatric Hematology, and the Vishnevsky Surgery Centre.
These facilities do not only see patients under the compulsory health insurance system, but also conduct critical scientific research in fields such as oncology, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Their specialists contribute significantly to the advancement of diagnostics, emergency care, and rehabilitation methods, while also playing an active role in medical education and workforce training.
The government will continue supporting this work, including as part of the implementation of the Long and Active Life project.
I would like to ask Ms Golikova to monitor its efficiency to make it as effective as possible, to serve our people’s interests.
Today we will also address issues of support of a number of regions, above all those that suffered flooding. The president makes special emphasis on relieving the consequences and assisting the victims.
We will discuss allocating additional two billion rubles for the restoration of regional, inter-municipal, and local roads damaged by flooding in six regions: the Trans-Baikal and Primorye territories, and the Amur, Irkutsk, Omsk, and Orenburg regions. Authorities at all levels are expected to take necessary measures to prevent such events in the future.
The president stressed that the entire road network in the new regions must be brought up to standard in three years. This involves the repair and reconstruction of approximately 100 km of streets and highways at various levels. For this purpose, about 2.5 billion rubles will be directed to the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
Project deadlines must be strictly monitored. All the resources designated for these purposes must also be allocated without delay.
