CHELYABINSK, May 12. The task for single-industry towns in the Chelyabinsk region at present is to reach a new level of development, including using new support measures, the head of the region, Alexei Teksler, believes.
«For the Chelyabinsk region, the issue of mono-profile municipalities is of high relevance: the region ranks 3rd in the Russian Federation and 2nd in the Urals Federal District in terms of the number of single-industry towns — we have 16 of them. It is clear that the situation in them depends on the activities of the city-forming enterprise. The strategic task is to bring all single-industry towns to a new level of development, using both existing support tools and developing new ones that should meet the demands of the time. the entire system of support measures, including financial support, being implemented today through VEB.RF,» Texler said at a visiting meeting of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy in Magnitogorsk on Friday.
Many of the city-forming enterprises worked and work not only for the domestic market, but also for export, both economic success and social stability of municipalities depend on export, he added. «Today, of course, it is important to develop foreign economic relations with friendly countries, to build new logistics corridors. Accordingly, to set up an export support system for this, both at the federal and regional levels. And at the same time, to keep our own, focused on our Russian interests economic agenda,» the governor said.
As for Magnitogorsk, where the meeting was held, it is a single-industry town, and the city-forming enterprise — MMK — does a lot for the city, the head of the region noted. «And when we talked about the topic of single-industry towns, there were proposals for support. So, it is necessary to extend a number of preferential regimes for TASEDs, for enterprises such as MMK, additional tools are needed that would stimulate, for example, environmental programs,» he explained after the meeting. journalists.
Texler also said that the Russian Economic Forum will be held in Chelyabinsk on November 9-11, where new economic realities will be discussed.
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy Maxim Topilin said at the meeting that the Russian economy has withstood, has withstood, and now the main thing is not to relax. “To construct as much as possible from the support measures, the regimes that the legislation provides for… additional incentives for business… Magnitogorsk is important for us at the regional level, at the level of industrial enterprises. sectors. A very important dialogue. Now it is important — the situation is changing very quickly. Thanks to the support measures taken at the level of the federation, the president … the economy really survived, showed its stability … Everything is changing dynamically. It is important … the creation of jobs, especially in single-industry towns. We need to do this in permanent mode,» he told reporters.
Presidential Envoy to the Urals Federal District Vladimir Yakushev added that the country managed to resist the challenges, pessimistic forecasts did not come true — all the previous time that worked on the development of the economy was not in vain. “Let me remind you that the Urals Federal District is 30% of all tax revenues and even more to the federal budget. The economy of our country largely depends on the work of the enterprises of the Urals Federal District … Single-industry towns are an important issue for us. We have 37 single-industry towns in the Urals Federal District, including Magnitogorsk — a special single-industry city, with a special economy,» he said at the meeting.
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