President Putin said that with the completion of the Bureyskaya hydropower plant the power supplies problem of the Far Eastern Federal District would be solved.
He noted that companies operating in the Amur Region were already increasing output and tax receipts mounted considerably. He called particular attention to the fact that big Russian businesses were thinking about how to take advantage of the new generating capacities. The launch of the Bureyskaya plant also offered a chance to build up the export potential, the President said, but that was not the main thing. A priority goal, he said, was to develop the Russian economy, create new jobs and improve the people’s standard of living.
The President also touched upon matters related to housing and public utilities and the preparations for winter. He expressed concern over brewing problems in that sphere in a number of Far Eastern regions. He stressed that neither the federal nor local authorities had the right to shrink away from these problems.
The governors of the Amur, Primorye, Khabarovsk and Jewish Regions and the heads of some federal ministries and departments and Unified Energy Systems took part in the meeting.