The meeting was attended by Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov, Chairman of the State Council Commission on Industry – Governor of the Samara Region Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, and Bank PSB CEO Pyotr Fradkov, as well as representatives of federal ministries, regions, industrial enterprises, and development institutions.
The meeting participants discussed the implementation of the national project, Innovative Materials and Chemistry, and the development of the industrial potential of Russia’s new regions.
Anton Alikhanov noted the importance of using domestic equipment at newly created capacities. For this purpose, appropriate preferences have been provided at the federal level. In the future, the level of localisation should be taken into account in government procurement and procurement of the companies with state participation, the Minister emphasised.
According to Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, Innovative Materials and Chemistry is one of the pillars of Russia’s technological future, a project capable of changing the structure of exports and domestic demand and creating a new industrial basis. Given the extremely important systemic task of restoring the industry in the new territories, a series of thematic meetings will be held as part of the Commission’s work to develop specific solutions for integrating new regions into a single Russian economic space.
Commenting on the results of the meeting, Presidential Aide, State Council Secretary Alexei Dyumin noted that the topics raised were of strategic importance for the country’s industrial policy and were in the focus of the President’s attention.
According to the of the State Council Secretary, within the framework of the national project, Innovative Materials and Chemistry, platforms for pilot production and scaling of technologies are being created and equipped at universities and research institutes, and centres for advanced personnel training and engineering development centres are being formed.
For the above measures to have a lasting effect, it is important to build reliable protection of the domestic market from imports. This includes the use of all existing and the search for new opportunities to protect domestic producers on the EAEU platform, including customs and tariff measures and measures for technical regulation of the industry, Alexei Dyumin noted.
The regions have already joined the implementation of the national project, but given the scale of the tasks at hand, it is necessary to expand the range of enterprises involved in the project and interact more actively with investors and federal entities, the Presidential Aide emphasised.
With regard to industrial development in the new regions of the country, Alexei Dyumin noted that the President outlined the need to fully realise the potential of these historical territories, ensure the restart of their economies, strengthen the financial base, and increase self-sufficiency.