Agenda: support for high-technology production facilities, encouragement of equipment manufacturing for the fuel and energy sector, assistance to the airports in the central and southern regions, additional financing to the Orenburg Region to help the floodwater victims.
Opening remarks by Mikhail Mishustin:
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Good afternoon, colleagues.
Before passing over to the Government meeting agenda I want to speak about the adopted decision. It refers to the serial production of competitive goods that so far have no domestic equivalents.
To this end, the Government will expand the list of modern technologies, which, if developed or introduced by a company, will make it eligible for entering into a special investment contract with the state and getting tax and a number of other benefits.
This list will also comprise over 20 promising solutions in radio electronics, medicine, energy, metallurgy, chemical industry, agriculture and the new materials development sector.
The relevant resolution has been signed by the Government. It will help attract additional private investment in these priority areas and master the output of products critically important for our country. They include knowledge-intensive equipment, such as devices for continuous monitoring of blood glucose levels, tomographs for highly specialised diagnostic tests and a number of other gadgets.
Under the sanctions restrictions it is important to keep on taking measures for strengthening Russia’s sovereignty in all sectors. This is the task set by the President.
The agenda also includes an issue intended to encourage Russian industry, specifically equipment production for the fuel and energy sector. Currently, it is being adapted to the external conditions and challenges. It is looking for new suppliers and purchasers.
We will allocate about 730 million roubles for the construction of an integrated facility to produce large-capacity liquefied natural gas compressor units in Russia. The funds will enable building the necessary engineering infrastructure – power supply networks and the main substation.
We believe that the completion of such a project will not only produce a positive effect in terms of meeting the producers’ demand for liquefied gas, but will also help achieve technological sovereignty and continue diversification of Russian gas supplies to international markets.
The next issue refers to the aviation sector. I am speaking about assistance to the airports in the central and southern regions of the country, which still face temporary flight restrictions. The President highlighted that the transport sector requires government support to secure its rhythmic operation. It is very important to preserve skilled personnel and ensure the employment of specialists who work there.
The Government keeps these issues under control. We have already spent about 27 billion roubles to compensate for the expenses of the airports, which suspended servicing passenger flights. Primarily, the funds were channeled to pay wages and salaries, preserve the workforce, finance the airport infrastructure development, including in Krasnodar, Anapa, Belgorod and Simferopol.
Today we will allocate additionally over six billion roubles. Thanks to such measures we can preserve the operation capacity of these airports and their readiness to resume air service as soon as the flight situation changes.
Thus, restrictions have been lifted from the airport of the resort city of Gelendzhik, which will start air service tomorrow.
It is necessary to go on doing everything possible to make our aviation sector sustainable and the flights comfortable and safe for passengers.
The Government continues to support Russia’s regions. Some of them faced great difficulties due to spring snow and ice melting that caused large overflowing of water bodies. This happened in the Orenburg Region last year, where more than 10,000 residents were evacuated. Thousands of houses, including residential blocks of flats, hundreds of kilometres of motorways, and other infrastructure have been damaged.
The flood victims have already received assistance, including in repairing their housing and in purchasing new homes. On the President’s instruction, last year the amount of some payments was increased by 50 percent.
Now, we will allocate another 1.5 plus billion roubles the regional budget for such support.
It is very important not to leave our citizens alone in the face of such force majeure circumstances, while the relevant agencies and local authorities must do everything necessary to prevent such situations from reoccurring.
