this is russia 24 right now, the most quoted event of this day is the plenary meeting of the eastern economic forum with the participation of the president on our channel, a full recording of this conversation. president of the russian federation vladimir vladimirovich putin vice-president of the lao people's democratic republic on it yet moderator of the plenary session ilya daronov

hello everyone, good afternoon, good evening. good morning, a it's very nice to see more people this year than last year. it seems to me that last year the seating was like this was wider now all together. ahh. welcome to the eighth eastern economic forum. i planned to start with one thing, but the news that is coming right now forces me to start with something completely different. you probably just read that the plane flying from sochi to omsk landed in a field in the novosibirsk region and there were 159 people on board. and no one was hurt. only one person. it rose as i read the blood pressure, so let us

applaud the pilot. there's another problem, but maybe we'll later let's talk about airplanes. so this forum and this one, plenary session. she's not very ordinary. why because exactly 10 years ago it was announced that the far east and the arctic were a priority for us, and yuri petrovich trutnev became a polodenivo, just 10 years ago vladimir vladimirovich addressed the federal assembly in december. he said that the far east is a priority, so i now give the floor to the president of the russian federation and ask how to tell how they used to talk about what was done during these two five-year plans. good afternoon, dear friends, dear madam pani

, no, although i want to greet our guest, i will ask the hall too. our presenter now said, greeted the audience and said, good afternoon. good morning. good evening. here, when you come to the far east , everything really gets confused in your head, it’s not clear whether it’s day, or morning, or evening, but we won’t get confused about one thing: the far east is a priority for russia. i would like to welcome the participants and guests of the 8th eastern economic forum, which

tradition, brought together the company's leaders, experts and government officials from our country and from dozens of other countries around the world to discuss together the promising strategic directions for the development of the russian far east, the arctic and the entire asia-pacific region, but during today's speech, of course, since this is part of the general complex of people's economic, otherwise i will have to, uh, turn to other regions of the country, and we are gathering in order to assess the main trends that determine the dynamics of international business relations, as you and i know well. we see how the global economy has changed and continues to change in recent years, including due to the fact that some countries have changed before. in the west, of course, with their own hands they are destroying the system of financial trade and economic relations, which they themselves created in many ways. it is very important that against this

background, the space of genuine business cooperation in the world is expanding , the state, which is not subject to any external pressure, but should their own national interests and there are more and more such states, and in different regions of the world, and they put their policies at the forefront of their activities. there are no opportunistic current political moments about the promotion of their own projects in the field of transport, energy, industry, finance, in the humanitarian sphere of projects that can and do have direct long-term benefits for the people of these countries, in fact, a new model of integra you relationship is being born, well, no longer according to western patterns for the elite for the chosen golden billion, but for all of humanity, for the entire functioning and developing multipolar world.

it is in this model that the creative energy of openness and focus on a specific result becomes a powerful competitive advantage of the asia-pacific region , a key factor that determines and is sure for a long time will determine its global leadership in economic growth rates . i note that last year , russia’s trade turnover with the asia-pacific countries increased by 13 and 70%. and for the first half of this year added another 18.3%. it depends on last year 13.7 plus, and for the first half of the year it is already 18.3 we expect that our trade is between states. and in general, economic relations will continue to develop, because in russia our far east is open to strengthening trade cooperation ties and the potential for such cooperation. it is simply impossible to overestimate the far eastern

federal district - this is 40% of the territory of the russian federation, almost half of our forests and gold reserves are located here, and more than 70%. fish, diamonds over 30% titanium copper and so on operate the most important strategic enterprises, seaports and railways; in a word, the role of the far east for our country for its future for the opposition to russia in a multipolar world is extremely great. we understand this well, and therefore i want to repeat what i said in my message to the federal assembly 10 years ago in december 1913. what did you say at the very beginning? the rapid development of the far eastern regions is our absolute priority for the entire 21st century. general responsibilities and work of government

regions of the largest domestic companies, both with state participation and absolutely private ones, for the organization of such work over the past years, a serious regulatory framework has been formed, fundamental modern approaches to the economic and social development of the far east and the arctic, another of our strategic priorities, have been laid. what are the results, uh, the moderator asked, and what results, uh, were we able to achieve together. uh, in this region have achieved in the last 10 years. first of all, this certainly concerns economy for the development of industrial complexes and high-tech industries to create new jobs. they offered special tax administrative customs preferences in the far east and took over the construction of infrastructure. connecting networks to industrial sites and

such business support is carried out in the territories of advanced development and the free port of vladivostok. although other territories have already been added to this port as such. since last year, a special preferential regime has been launched on the kuril islands, and moreover more preferential conditions than in priority development areas, where the validity period or year has expired and the actual tax reduction itself is greater, and so on. i won't go into details now. just so as not to waste time, thanks to state support for far eastern projects , investment agreements worth more than 7 and 70 trillion rubles have been signed, of which 3.4 trillion have already been invested, 125,000 jobs have been created , about 700 new enterprises have started operating, including such landmark projects are being implemented,

as a gas processing plant one of the largest in the world and a gas chemical complex in the amur region, the nakhodka mineral fertilizer plant and the pinnacle of large-tonnage shipbuilding is a star. it’s very close here, and mishka deposits of copper and other minerals are being developed, udokan, boinskaya malyshka, important projects launched in the agro-industrial sector. these are greenhouse farms in the sakhalin region, primorsky krai, fish processing in kamchatka, magadan , pork production in primorye, increase soybean production in the amur region. all these are also promising directions for supplies to ours. the domestic market and exports in general, the dynamics and investments in the far east, i want to especially note and emphasize, are three times faster than the all-russian indicator, if from 2014

to 2022 the growth of investment in fixed capital throughout the country was 13%. then in the far east 39%. this is reflected in production volumes and industrial growth rates. in the far east, they also exceed the russian average based on the results of the last five years by a large part of our eastern regions of the magadan and amur regions. transbaikalia jewish autonomous region of the amur river. chukotka and kamchatka are among the top twenty subjects of the federation in terms of growth rates of gross regional product, and the magadan region and all this is a rating. i will give a few figures that speak for themselves over 10 years , the cargo turnover of far eastern seaports has increased 1.6 times. here housing is 1.3 times

electricity consumption one and two tenths times. annual gold production in the east of the country has increased one and six tenths times that of coal. two and eight tenths times, dear colleagues. you understand what we are talking about, not about the percentage increase in growth, everything is growing exponentially. here i would like to note that the percentage of subsoil exploration in the far east on average across the regions is now 35%. you understand only 35% of the studied subsoil. what does this mean? this suggests that there is still every opportunity for multiple growth in the extractive industries, including raw materials that are in short supply strategically, in demand in the economy of the future ; everything, this is not only a guarantee of resource

sovereignty of the country, but also the basis for the production of new microelectronics materials and promising energy sources for the promotion of domestic environmental protection, conservation technologies and scientific developments to create high-quality jobs; implementation at a new level, naturally, of the competitive advantages of the far east and all of russia. to increase the volume of geological exploration in we have launched a frontal strategy. it is called so beautiful, the geology of the renaissance legend. i ask governments to provide it contains a separate section devoted to the study of the subsoil of the far eastern region and to begin preparing the same section for siberia ; prospects for the far east and the arctic , of course, related not only to the development of natural resource deposits, which are certainly in demand, but also in the domestic industry and abroad, i repeat the powerful

raw material base for economic development that we are laying allows us to move forward and increase the depth of resource processing. as experts say, increase added value at domestic enterprises, including and above all, of course, in the far east . this is the main thing. to do this, it is necessary to constantly improve the conditions for doing business in the macroregion , keep them at a globally competitive level, provide long-term and cheap financing for investment projects, accessible to both small both medium-sized businesses and large manufacturing companies in all areas and industries, territories and regions. as you know, we launched at the federal level cluster investment platform, this mechanism is designed to finance large-scale systems for significant projects, primarily for the production of materials, components and finished products; in the manufacturing

industry, this year, within the framework of the investment platform of this platform , priority products for the production of priority products worth at least two trillion must be financed rubles i ask the government. additionally , aim this tool specifically at the tasks of developing the far eastern economy so that in order for more complex industries with modern , well-paid jobs to appear here, it is necessary to promote projects that require large multi-billion dollar investments, and they, in turn, become points of attraction for related sectors, including the construction industry and service companies. manufacturers of equipment for small businesses i would also like to emphasize oil and gas, chemistry , metallurgy, mechanical engineering, and other manufacturing sectors, all of these are energy-intensive industries. however, about this i also need to say today that most of

the far eastern regions, which, as i already said, are opening new e, production and industrial sites to build housing. still facing a shortage of energy capacity. and this, of course, is a problem; the scale of the projects that we are implementing in the far east requires an equally large-scale update of the far eastern energy system. at the same time, there are truly unique conditions for the development of environmentally friendly hydro, nuclear and renewable energy, and i ask the government, together with our large energy companies and business circles. prepare a program for the development of energy capacities in the far east, it should be designed to last until 2050 in order to maximize the economic opportunities of our far eastern territories . i also ask the governments to develop mechanisms for project financing of this strategic program. next our

plans are to connect gas pipelines with the power of siberia and sakhalin khabarovsk vladivostok and then include them in the country’s unified gas supply system, that is, decide on in fact, i’m not afraid of this word , i will find a historical global task for our country to integrate into one whole the gas transportation networks of the west and east of the russian federation with the construction of the siberian power-2 gas pipeline. this will allow us not only to work flexibly on global energy markets , which is in demand today, as we know, but first of all , to significantly expand the gasification program for buryatia, the trans-baikal territory and other far eastern regions, to give the industry here in the far east additional resources to provide cities and towns environmentally friendly fuel. moreover, for gasification. kamchatka will use

the capabilities of the terminal. book natural gas, which is one of our companies has already created this direction. we are actively developing, including in the arctic, after the successful start of the yamal lng project , a new large-scale project has been launched for the construction of liquefied natural gas in the arctic , meaning the first technological line of the project. artik spg-2. it is already in the mining area and commissioning work is underway. yes, that's what happens. i would like to point out that this line itself is essentially a floating natural gas liquefaction plant. it has no analogues in the world. we can safely say that it is based on russian technologies and capacities produced by the murom center for the construction of large offshore structures in 2030, and the production of st. petersburg in the arctic zone of russia should triple to 604 million tons per year in this regard.

a fundamental decision has been made to launch new lng lines based on the murmansk center for work in arctic fields; of course, this will make a huge contribution to the development in our northern regions, strengthening the technological sovereignty of russia, a powerful lng production center is planned to be created in the murmansk region itself. i’m forced to give answers about this too, it doesn’t seem to directly relate to the far east, but its supply will be for its supply , a gas pipeline will be built, volkhov murmansk galakaminka. i really hope that our company will not go into details now and will agree among themselves through mediation who will build this important infrastructure facility and how. it's him

transport is very important for the city of murmansk for the villages of the murmansk region and karelia to support business initiatives and in general for the economy and the far east of their residents. the project needs to expand existing logistics routes and open new corridors. re-, er, transportation of goods, a special place in this series, of course, occupies the development of the northern sea route. last year, 34 million tons of cargo passed through it, and in the coming years, the cargo flow of this global transfer corridor will only grow. what requires advance construction of a modern icebreaker fleet and modernization of arctic ports and their infrastructure by 2030. we expect to double the total capacity of the seaports of the arctic basin, if last year it amounted to 123 million tons, only by the end of the decade it should reach the level of 252 million tons, including through the construction of new terminals and the expansion of railway approaches by 2027. we will it is planned

to significantly increase the capacity of the murmansk port from the current fifty-six million to 110 million, tons will be we will continue modernization of bama and trans-siberian railways at a pace. here we certainly need to expand, including through concession mechanisms for attracting private capital for the construction of bridges, tunnels and overpasses, now only we , uh, this issue was discussed with fellow moderators of the relevant sessions in this environment, i will note that at the initiative of private investors, the pacific railway is being built a new port is being built on the coast of the sea of ​​okhotsk. this will make it possible to use the resources of yakutia and the north of the khabarovsk territory to provide direct access to in the atr market, our large companies are now building a new seaport in taimyr, modernizing the railway, pangody and

there are many such examples. business is being invested. what is called a long-term logistics transport energy project - the construction of railways and highways, sea terminals and airports. i ask my colleagues’ governments in the regions to actively rely on this resource so that both public and private investments have a synergistic effect for updating the infrastructure of the social sphere spatial development of regions and the country as a whole. i have already addressed our entrepreneurs, who from uh, no, many of whom have faced a certain pressure from individual partners and i want to repeat again today that it is safer and better to definitely invest capital in russia as in large-scale ambitious infrastructure projects in local, but no less important urban tourism development projects, and we

see what happens to capital, how it moves anywhere, and we don’t step on the same rake twice. just recently we opened a section of the high-speed highway from moscow to arzamas by the end of this year, the route will reach kazan and then to yekaterinburg and tyumen. i want to say today that we will certainly continue this large-scale project: high-speed highways will pass through siberia, the far east to the pacific ocean. a single transport corridor will be formed. russia from st. petersburg to vladivostok it will serve as the basis for the development of tourism for the connection of logistics agricultural and production centers will give impetus to entrepreneurship, urban renewal and villages a separate topic is the development of air communications between the far east and the european part of russia, as well as increasing

the direct connectivity of the far eastern regions with each other, so that people do not have to fly to their neighbors through moscow or the siberian airport for this purpose. as you know, we have created a single far eastern airline ; its most important routes are subsidized by the state in this way. ticket prices become more affordable for citizens ; additional opportunities to explore new flight routes, including local ones, appear i propose to support this absolutely important work, transfer it to a systematic basis, and ask the government to prepare a comprehensive action plan for the development of air transportation within the far eastern region by the first of march next year. it should cover the construction of new and modernization of existing airports, improving standards for the operation of small aviation, the supply of domestic airplanes and helicopters and,

of course, increasing the accessibility of air travel , primarily by reducing airline costs for leasing aircraft. the exact parameters and targets here have yet to be determined. well, i think it would be right to set the bar so that by 2030 passenger traffic on domestic flights in the far east will increase to no less than 4 million people per year. we will repeat the plenary session. we will now return to other topics. mikhail mishustin held a strategic session dedicated to the development of production of domestic unmanned aircraft systems. here is the footage we received from the government coordination center. kind day dear colleagues, today at the strategic session. we will discuss a very important issue - this is the formation of an industry for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles and, uh, in the spring this issue

was discussed in detail by the president and on behalf of the head of state. in may, we adopted a corresponding development strategy for this important new industry , and a corresponding national project was developed and approved. such a high status of the documents speaks of the great importance that is given to this direction. especially today during rapid development of technology is that artificial intelligence digitalization of the work of many other important areas of technological development in the russian federation already exists leaders in the use of drones in the civil sphere are the energy sector of construction agriculture are used devices are also used for the needs of geodesy and cartography gradually disembodied technologies are being tested in mixed industries. this road transport shipping in the coming years

will have to fulfill several important state tasks from the formation of an industrial base, software infrastructure to support demand for products , services, including state civil orders from regional departments and state companies. and accordingly, before the development of scientific and technological competencies of the design and engineering school of the national school, the number of light drones. already today there are tens of thousands, but mostly. they are currently being manufactured by, let’s say, technology enthusiasts, but they need to be systematized and scale production over the next 7 years. we plan to almost double the volume of the russian market for heavy and medium- sized vehicles; we expect to achieve our goal not only through the creation of innovative equipment. and, what is very important, due to the expansion of services based on it, which are in demand today by consumers, from

delivery to remote settlements to emergency prevention. well, and performing a number of other important tasks. with a simultaneous increase in the share of domestic products three times to 70%, then we discussed. we see that the use of drones increases the operational efficiency of enterprises, for example, in the field of agriculture. labor productivity in processing and plant protection products has doubled, and in the energy sector, the risk of emergency situations has decreased eightfold due to the inspection of power lines. moreover, the speed of inspection has increased fivefold in the fuel sector, the cost of air patrols, and gas pipelines have decreased threefold. but, and the duration work was reduced by 70%. similar examples can be given for a number of other industries: construction, cartography, cadastre

maintenance, geological exploration, environmental control, and many, many others. in order for our country to take its rightful place in a promising market, it is necessary, of course, a systematic approach, the president emphasized that in such an area as unmanned aircraft. we must go one step ahead of our competitors and i believe that there is every opportunity for this. as part of the expansion of the sector, we will create infrastructure to ensure flights, and on the territory of the country in the common airspace , develop a network of research and production centers in which to concentrate work on testing and practical implementation of advanced solutions in this area. it will unite a disparate enterprise into effective cooperation for developers, manufacturers, users , operators, digital solutions will appear , and we expect over 1 million specialists will be trained. dear