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Source: Government of the Russian Federation – An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article.
Dmitry Patrushev held the kick-off meeting of Incident 62, dedicated to the development of the Siberian Federal District.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev held a kick-off meeting for incident #62, dedicated to the development of the Siberian Federal District. The choice of this format of interdepartmental cooperation was initiated by the Deputy Prime Minister as the district’s curator and supported by the Prime Minister. The incident will allow for the aggregation of activities of all regional development programs and the maximum synergistic effect from their implementation.
“The Siberian Federal District is of strategic importance for further strengthening the industrial potential of Russia. Huge reserves of natural resources are concentrated here, including precious metals, copper, nickel, coal, oil, and gas. In addition, the largest hydropower facilities in Russia operate on the territory of the district. A base for training qualified specialists has also been formed in Siberia – leading educational and scientific centers are working to strengthen human resources,” said Dmitry Patrushev.
As part of the incident, federal and regional authorities, state corporations and businesses, as well as representatives of the scientific community, will have to identify points of economic growth for the district’s subjects and create conditions for their implementation.
The progress of implementation was reviewed at the kick-off meeting development strategies for Siberia, which affects such areas as rare earth and precious metals, forestry, aluminum processing, tourism, agriculture and processing, oil and gas and coal industries. Following the meeting, the Ministry of Economic Development will ensure accelerated revision of the plan for implementing the strategy for the development of Siberia.
During the incident, Dmitry Patrushev noted that the explored reserves of rare earth metals in Siberia make up 18% of the total Russian reserves, and the district’s subsoil contains significant volumes of rare metals. The Deputy Prime Minister added that the issue of creating a corresponding cluster in the Siberian District is currently being worked out to develop deep processing of rare earth metals. In the long term, this will allow Russia to ensure independence from imports of the corresponding products and reach a new technological level.
Following the meeting, Dmitry Patrushev instructed to form an expert group, which will include representatives of interested federal departments, the Analytical Center under the Government, regions, as well as the business community, the Russian Academy of Sciences, industry scientific and educational institutions. The group will determine the long-term need of the economy for rare and rare earth metals and develop a list of products, the production of which can be organized in Siberia.
Incident No. 62 “Implementation of measures for the development of the Siberian Federal District” was created on the initiative of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev for effective interdepartmental cooperation aimed at the comprehensive development of Siberia. In particular, the republics of Altai, Tyva and Khakassia, Altai and Krasnoyarsk Krais, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tomsk Oblasts.
When working in the incident format, a special project management system is used, which is deployed on the basis of the Government Coordination Center. It allows for prompt coordination of the actions of participants and monitoring of project implementation in real time.
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