The Prime Minister joined the heads of delegations from the countries participating in a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council to tour the exhibition and addressed the plenary session, “Industrial and Technological Cooperation: Complementary Partnership.”
Group photo of the heads of delegations during their tour of the exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin
Joint tour of the INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition by heads of delegations. Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin (left), Minister-Adviser to the Co-Presidents of Nicaragua on Investment, Trade and International Cooperation Laureano Ortega Murillo (right)
Joint tour of the INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition by heads of delegations. Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov (second left), Minister-Adviser to the Co-Presidents of Nicaragua on Investment, Trade and International Cooperation Laureano Ortega Murillo (right)
Joint tour of the INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition by heads of delegations. Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin (left), Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov (right)
Joint tour of the INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition by heads of delegations. Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Head of the Presidential Administration of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliev (second left), Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov (left), Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Bakhytzhan Sagintayev (right)
Joint tour of the INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition by heads of delegations. Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin (right), Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Bakhytzhan Sagintayev (centre)
Joint tour of the INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition by heads of delegations
Joint tour of the INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition by heads of delegations. Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Head of the Presidential Administration of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliev (second left), Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov (left)
Joint tour of the INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition by heads of delegations. Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Head of the Presidential Administration of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov, Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin
Joint tour of the INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition by heads of delegations. Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov (left), Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Bakhytzhan Sagintayev, Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Head of the Presidential Administration of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliev
Joint tour of the INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition by heads of delegations. Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov (left), Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin (second left)
Joint tour of the INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition by heads of delegations. Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov (left), Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin (right)
Mikhail Mishustin’s remarks at the main plenary session of INNOPROM, “Industrial and Technological Cooperation: Complementary Partnership”
Group photo of the heads of delegations during their tour of the exhibition
The second INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition is held at the BelExpo Minsk International Exhibition Centre from September 30 to October 2.
The exhibition features group displays from 17 Russian regions: Arkhangelsk Region, Bryansk Region, Vladimir Region, Donetsk People’s Republic, Krasnodar Territory, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Leningrad Region, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Orenburg Region, Republic of Mordovia, Republic of Tatarstan, Samara Region, St Petersburg, Tomsk Region, Udmurtian Republic, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area — Yugra, and Chelyabinsk Region.
Individual booths showcase leading Russian companies and corporations. More than 200 Russian companies and organisations have registered to participate in the exhibition.
Russian participants are showcasing a wide range of industrial solutions, including a robotic quality control system with machine vision, aircraft models, an end-to-end Russian PLM solution for developing complex engineering products, infrastructure for controlling unmanned aircraft systems and an unmanned aircraft system, a model of a reciprocating compressor unit, models of freight railcar bogies and other large-scale railcar castings, optical analysis and sorting technology, a tractor unit for transporting heavy and oversized cargo, AI assistants for designers and process engineers, and other industrial developments.
The exhibition also features a booth of the Eurasian Economic Commission and group displays from six foreign countries, namely, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
The national exhibition of Belarus brings together enterprises from the machine-building, machine-tool manufacturing, automotive, and instrument-making industries, as well as the petrochemical, electronics, and microelectronics sectors, along with free economic zones. Belarusian enterprises will showcase innovative transport products, innovative freight and passenger vehicles powered by clean fuels, engineering, manufacturing and service solutions, advanced developments in clean technology, automated manufacturing systems and industrial IT, unmanned systems, as well as proposals in the field of transport and logistics infrastructure.
Mikhail Mishustin’s remarks:
Mr Turchin, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,
Mr Turchin, thank you for inviting me to speak at the plenary session of the INNOPROM. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition. I would once again like to thank our Belarusian friends for the excellent organisation, warm welcome and gracious hospitality accorded to the Russian delegation.
Holding INNOPROM exhibitions has become an established tradition. This summer, we discussed industrial development in Yekaterinburg. In September, President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited INNOPROM in New Delhi. Here in Minsk, we will exchange our views on ways to strengthen industrial and technological cooperation between our countries.
This is an extremely important matter for all our countries, as strong manufacturing industry is a pillar for sovereign development and high-quality economic growth, as well as for improving living standards.
In Russia, a broad range of measures is being implemented on the instructions of President Putin to support domestic industrial companies. We discussed this at length at the exhibition today.
Despite the unprecedented sanctions pressure and the overall turbulence in the global economy, our industrial output remains at last year’s level. Over the first eight months, the manufacturing sector grew by around 0.5 per cent. The most powerful boost came from mechanical engineering, which grew by 6 percent during this period.
New industrial enterprises and production facilities are being brought online on a regular basis. Over the past six months alone, we have launched the production of turbochargers for lorries and agricultural machinery, as well as production lines for radiopharmaceuticals. A facility for the large-unit assembly of high-capacity boilers has become operational. We have launched full-cycle production of carbide metal-cutting tools, a new polymer production complex, a plant manufacturing industrial robots and automated storage systems, and a world-class full-cycle turbine repair and servicing facility.
The list of such enterprises goes on, and each one makes a substantial contribution to our economy. Importantly, it helps us remain independent from foreign supplies. This is one of the priorities that President Putin has set for the Government.
We are not only replacing foreign solutions with domestic ones, but also seeking to set market trends and develop new types of competitive and innovative products. This is the purpose of the national projects for technological leadership, which I discussed in detail at the previous INNOPROM exhibition in Minsk.
This approach has made possible eight industrial robotics centres and 11 centres for engineering development in the chemical sector. A product tanker and 15 electric vessels have been built. A lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant and our country’s first facility for producing liquefied natural gas compressor units have been commissioned. A combine harvester for direct harvesting of grain crops has come about as well.
Wide-ranging work is under way across all the strategic sectors covered by national projects, including machine tools and equipment, materials and chemicals, food, medicine, and energy. The transport sector — aviation, shipbuilding, and automotive manufacturing, as well as railway engineering and unmanned system — as well as space technologies and the bioeconomy are a part of it, too.
In all these sectors, we are willing to share our expertise and experience with our closest neighbours and friends. After all, significant progress in strengthening our industrial base can be achieved by developing country-to-country industrial and high-tech cooperation.
Russia is open to this dialogue.
The President of Russia pointed out that “by strengthening technological sovereignty, we intend to establish and expand mutually beneficial alliances with other countries and support initiatives by our foreign partners that use Russian machinery, equipment, and technological platforms.”
We enjoy close integration with our Belarusian colleagues as part of the Union State. Our countries pursue a common industrial policy and operate based on mutual recognition of parts and components.
We are expanding enterprises’ access to support programmes. The jointly manufactured products are granted the “Made in the Union State” status.
Our regions are cooperating directly as well. With the participation of Belarusian companies, for example, we are establishing production of the latest mining equipment in the Moscow Region. In the Novosibirsk Region, we are producing components for the machine-tool industry. In Tatarstan, the equipment manufactured by the Minsk Tractor Plant is being assembled.
Leading Belarusian plants supply components for electronics manufacturing in Tatarstan, and the Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow regions.
I look forward to us continuing to move forward together at a fast pace.
It is important to further strengthen cooperation among companies from the EAEU member states. Launching a supranational mechanism to support industrial projects and industrial cooperation gave it a major boost.
A portfolio of 23 such projects has been put together. Eight of them have been approved and are being implemented with the participation of enterprises from all five member states in railway, agricultural, and specialised engineering. These include projects to organise the production of switch components for the Moscow–St Petersburg high-speed railway, as well as high-tech production of components for railway transport, including high-speed trains. Other projects are aimed at expanding capacity for the production of industrial refrigeration equipment, and at building a plant for the production of paints and coatings.
The projects cover a number of other areas as well. Importantly, the funding has already been provided for in the EAEU budget. Most importantly, each of these projects represents real production, people and expertise, and each contributes to the development of our economies.
I would like to thank Minister of Industry and the Agro-Industrial Complex of the Eurasian Economic Commission Goar Barsegyan, Mr Sagintayev, and our other colleagues who are working together to advance cooperation on our industrial projects. I would also like to thank all our colleagues involved in this major joint effort.
Colleagues, friends,
The Union State and the Eurasian Economic Union have become examples of how integration processes should be built, including in the field of industrial cooperation and mutually beneficial technology exchange. It is important not to rest on our achievements, but to put new ideas into practice and ensure the innovative, science- and technology-based growth of our economies by leveraging each other’s strengths. I am confident that INNOPROM. Belarus will give a major additional boost to this effort.
I wish all participants of the exhibition and forum continued success.
