increased, they are three times higher than the russian average. the results of these investments are also clear. about a thousand new enterprises are operating, more than 140,000 jobs have been created . the dynamics of industrial production in the region since 2013 has exceeded the all-russian rate by 25%. let me remind you that there are currently 16 territories of advanced development in the far east. and the free port of vladivostok, a preferential regime has been launched on the kuril islands, a special administrative region has been created on russky island, where our meeting is taking place. by the way, this region has already ensured the return of assets worth over 5.5 trillion rubles from offshore foreign jurisdictions to russia. more than a hundred companies have become its residents to date. we will definitely continue these. forward, we will

constantly improve the business climate in russia as a whole and in the far east, including applying newer effective approaches to interaction with foreign investors in this region, so at the last eastern economic forum it was announced that international territories of advanced development, they must offer globally competitive conditions for foreign investors, first of all, of course, from friendly countries. the first international tour is supposed to be created here in primorsky krai. our chinese friends are showing great interest in it, as well as the republic of belarus, with whose participation a new deep-water port may appear in primorye. i ask the state duma and the government of the russian federation to speed up work on the bill necessary for the launch international tors. an additional factor... for expanding work with

foreign partners should be another regulatory decision, namely, from september 1 of this year, our legislation provides for the possibility of using foreign standards for design and construction. of course, we are talking about the standards of those countries where the requirements for quality, reliability, safety of capital facilities are not lower than ours, i expect that this approach... will find its application, including in international tours far east. a good example of cooperation with foreign partners, large investments in construction and job creation should be the development of bolshoy usuriysky island in khabarovsk krai. we are talking about creating large logistics complexes here, checkpoints across the state border, and expanding the road network. in may of this year, as part of a state

visit to the people's republic of china, we agreed with our chinese colleagues to work together on this project, i am sure it will give a good, powerful impetus to the development khabarovsk of the entire region. i ask the government to work out all organizational and financial issues in order to begin implementing this plan as early as next 2025. of course, one of the key issues for starting business initiatives in the manufacturing industry. housing construction and updating the transport network in all areas and industries is the supply of electricity. the volume of energy consumption in the far east is growing. today it is 69 billion kilowatt-hours per year, by the end of the decade it is projected to be 96 billion. at already now some areas, settlements large far eastern investors are facing a shortage. of electricity,

are forced to wait for the commissioning of new stations, because of which the construction of industrial facilities, infrastructure is being held back, the government has already taught a lesson, together with our large large energy companies, business circles, to prepare a long-term program for the development of energy capacities in the far east, to provide for it mechanisms of project financing, within the framework of this program it is necessary to eliminate... the forecast deficit electricity in the far east, primarily due to the commissioning of new generation facilities, such as the nizhnezeiskaya gs in the amur region, which will not only supply electricity to the region itself and the eastern railway polygon, but will help protect territories and populated areas from floods, i also ask you to think about building nuclear power plants in the far east, yesterday i also talked about this with colleagues. i emphasize: the plan for the development

of the electric power industry must take into account both current and future needs business and citizens, long-term tasks facing our federal subjects. this fully applies to strengthening the transport and logistics capabilities of the far east, and the entire country. here, the most significant, large-scale project is, of course, the expansion of the eastern railway polygon. over the past 10 years , more than 2,000 km of track have been built on the trans-siberian railway and bama, and over 5,000 km have been modernized. more than 100 bridges and tunnels have been built and reconstructed, including across the rena, bureya, and selinga rivers. according to the results of the current years, the carrying capacity of the eastern railway polygon should grow to 180 million tons. this year we launched the next, third stage of development of this

most important transport artery. work is underway, it is deployed. i emphasize that it is necessary not only to expand, widen. bottlenecks of highways, to put into operation more than 300 objects, including the backup of the severomuysky, kuznetsovsky, kadarsky tunnels, as well as the bridge across the amur. the task is much more large-scale, for example, along the entire length of the bam it is necessary to lay continuous second ways, and we need to think about the future now. i think that we need to make bam not only fully double-track, but also electrify this highway. in... in the next 8 years , 3,100 km of railway track will have to be laid on the eastern polygon, for comparison, the same amount was laid within the first second stage of the expansion of bam and trans-siberian railway combined, and the same amount was laid during the years of bam construction from 1990 to

1974 to 1984, in a word, today we... are implementing a project that is larger in scale than the largest infrastructure investment project of the soviet union, implemented by all the republics of the ussr, and with great effort. like the trans-siberian railway, the new motor transport corridor from st. petersburg to vladivostok should become a continental artery, and it is not only about increasing the volume of freight traffic and improving the quality. automobile communication, with the construction of the corridor, domestic tourism will also develop, the entire route of the highway passes through dozens of regions of the russian federation. the corridor is being developed in stages. in december last year, a modern highway between moscow and kazan was opened. at

the end of this year, it should reach yekaterinburg, and then tyumen. bypasses of omsk, novosibirsk, and kansk will also be built. in the future, when the modern road reaches vladivostok, the motor transport corridor will be more than 10,000 km long, including approaches to checkpoints across the state border of russia. in this regard, i would like to remind you of the task that was set in the message to the federal assembly, namely: to reduce queues at the border, reduce the typical inspection time for freight vehicles. this should not exceed 10 minutes, and this result should be achieved at the first five border crossings in the far east by 2026. by the way, good dynamics in the speed of cargo processing at the border have already been achieved at railway crossings.

i would like to emphasize that a lot of work has been carried out at the eastern railway polygon, at all major road facilities in russia, and specialists are involved in it. these are engineers and designers from many regions our country, with their intensive work, responsible approach to business, they prove that russia can and is ready to build quickly, a lot and efficiently, to implement infrastructure, transport projects of a national in the full sense of the word global scale. among such projects for the development of the northern sea route, as an international logistics route, over the past 10 years its cargo flow has grown almost an order of magnitude, if in 2014 only 4 million tons of cargo were transported along the sefmore route, then last year already more than 36 million tons, this is

five times the soviet-era record. we will continue to increase cargo flow, including through active development of arctic deposits. redirection of cargo from west to east by increasing transit. a large-scale plan for the development of the northern sea route has been launched. we are building icebreakers. developing a satellite constellation, strengthening coastal infrastructure, a network of emergency rescue centers, in order to roll out, so to speak, roll out new logistics routes. two years ago, routes were launched along the seymour cabotage voyages, today this scheme includes 14 ports in the northwest, arctic and far east. i would like to note that based on the results of last year , the capacity of russian ports in...

solutions, which ensures additional demand for the products of domestic

machine-building and metallurgical enterprises for the services of construction and other branches of science and high-tech business. that is exactly how, based on the most modern approaches, taking into account the qualitatively increased technological, economic, educational capabilities of the entire country, it is necessary to solve the tasks of strategic development of the far east. including further development of such a strong, basic industry of the region as subsoil use. today , all russian tungsten, tin, fluorspar and boron ores, 80% of diamonds and uranium, more than 70% of silver, 60% of the country's gold are mined in the far east. at the same time, in key centers of extraction.

materials of energy sources, and, as i have already said, this must be done using more effective domestic technologies of scientific developments in the field of ecology and nature management. at our forum last year , the government issued an order to draw up separate programs for studying the subsoil of the far east and siberia, to include them in the federal project geology, revival of the legend. these programs are ready. according to estimates, every ruble of government funds invested in geological exploration will attract at

least 10 rubles of private investment, but most importantly, the invested funds will certainly pay off, they will, will be recouped, will provide a powerful return, a comprehensive effect along the entire production chain, but it is necessary do this work in a timely manner, understanding the investment planning horizon. i ask the government. in the draft federal budget for the next 3 years to include funding for the said programs in the amount necessary to achieve the set goals. i repeat: the far east has the potential for multiple growth in geological exploration, including the search for and extraction of high-tech raw materials, titanium, lithium, not both, rare earth metals, which are required in the economy of the future, and the main thing is that we have all this, the potential of these industries for the growth of the far eastern regions, the creation

of jobs, the increase in the availability of various services, the strengthening of connections and logistics is enormous. we will support the development of advanced, creative industries, infrastructure-economy of big data, artificial intelligence in the far east, including organizing a zone for the processing of unmanned aerial vehicles for civilian purposes. in order to fully utilize the advantage of technological progress, we will continue to build up scientific and educational potential of the far east. the region has already begun.

study, work, student accommodation, youth entrepreneurship sites and business clubs will open. we will also develop universities in the arctic in addition to the already launched campus project in arkhangelsk, a similar project will be added in murmansk. advanced engineering schools will also operate on the campuses. two such schools have already been created in sakhalin and vladivostok. their task is not only to train specialists for industry and agriculture economy, transport, services, for the use of artificial intelligence, but also to offer original solutions for serial implementation in the management system, in the social sphere, in economic sectors. on russky island , the scientific and technical center of the rusgira company has been successfully operating for 2 years, it

specializes in innovative developments in the field of global energy, and is already actively used in the program for technical re-equipment of the energy complex of the far east. also, with the participation of our leading companies, another one will be created a large innovative scientific and technological center on russky island. based at the far eastern federal university. its profile will be research and practical solutions in the field of marine engineering, biotechnology, biomedicine and other promising areas. i ask my colleagues from the government and primorsky krai to use the tools of the far eastern concession to implement the project, and also to think through mechanisms for attracting scientists from other scientific centers in russia to this center, and from other countries too, bearing in mind competitive incentive programs and a social package for specialists and their family members. dear colleagues, we understand

that success in implementing our plans here in the far east, yes.

the single subsidy has become a powerful financial lever for the far eastern concession mechanism. its task is to attract private investment in social projects. business has already planned to invest more than 120 billion rubles for these purposes. 36 such initiatives are being implemented. work is already underway. for example, here in primorye , a year-round ski resort is being built, in ulan ud - national museum theater, in petropavlovskchadsky. a new public center will appear, in khabarovsk an art museum, in magadan and chita sports complexes are being built, new sports complexes, there in chitei and berabidzhan city lighting is being completely modernized, we, of course, will continue to support the work of the far eastern concession, to complete it for the needs of citizens, business opportunities. what i want

to emphasize separately, today within the framework of the public private partnership for... schools, airports, bridges, highways are being built throughout the country, urban transport is being updated, but the volume of such projects is still relatively small, less than 3% of gdp or 4.4 trillion rubles. in order to develop this area more intensively, it is necessary to improve the relevant legislation, as well as the mechanism of public-private partnership, to ensure that the risks for all parties and bodies. authorities and businesses are transparent and distributed fairly, including in the implementation of publicly important projects, taking into account existing experience and established practice,

just as in the project finance factory would stimulate the attraction of private investment. i ask the government , together with the web, to determine the specific parameters and scale of transactions within the framework of public private partnership, which should be carried out, as i have already said, with the mandatory participation of the vba. further, it is very important that private investment be attracted taking into account long-term plans for the development of industries and territories, as well as our... settlements, cities, towns for their comprehensive development, for them, specifically for integrated development, we are actively promoting a fundamentally new tool for improving the quality of life of people,

these are the so-called master plans, well, many know about this, at least our russian colleagues, they have already been approved for 22 administrative centers and urban agglomerations of the far east, where more than 4 million people live, including such a document... prepared for the satellite city of vladivostok, this master plan will unite in one development logic the entire agglomeration of vladivostok, artem and the nadezhdinsky district. k its development should begin as early as next year 2025. what is the specificity, meaning and new approach in these master plans? to do this , we need to look at what was before at the local level: economic and urban development services. weakly interacted, the economy, business, often developed on their own, construction, housing and communal services, social infrastructure separately, on

their own, as a result, unbalanced solutions, unbalanced urban spaces were obtained. now the region and local administrations have held a series of discussions with residents and businesses, identified problem areas, defined potential. direction of development of their settlements, and for each city developed an individual long-term model, in fact, for the first time in the framework of one document the concept of socio-economic and spatial development, and socio-economic and spatial, with the commissioning of transport, housing and utilities, energy and other infrastructure, i repeat, the integrated task here is to improve the quality of life people. and this is the goal. most of the events of the far eastern master plans are being designed, but it is already possible to say that 70 objects will be commissioned by the end of this

year, in the future the pace of implementation of master plans should increase. in order to highlight the subjects of the federation and departments that are most actively moving forward in this work, the ministry for the development of the far east has compiled a special rating of leaders in implementation. adopted best practices, i will add that we have made a decision on additional volumes budget loans for the implementation of master plans approved by the government,

30 billion rubles have already been allocated for these purposes. i emphasize, additionally. i propose that from the approved limit of such loans for the period from 2025 to 2030 , 100 billion rubles be specifically allocated for the implementation of master plan projects for our far eastern...

eastern cities come from extra-budgetary sources, that is, from investments by businesses, city-forming enterprises that are ready to build clinics, kindergartens, sports centers, lay roads, update utility networks, restore cultural monuments, and so on. as i have already said, we certainly support such business investments, i am sure that with the increasing pace of transformation in cities, their share will certainly... grow, including from strategic partners, large enterprises that, within the framework of their social programs, actively participate in the renewal of cities where they develop their business. their results, capacity and experience should also be used to implement master plans. so strategic partners can fully finance the creation of a social infrastructure facility in a city,

town, territory, i ask the government to determine the parameters of such a mechanism. i emphasize that the experience of the far east will become the basis for scaling up the practice of master plans. as was noted in the message to the federal assembly by 2030, such strategic documents will be prepared for 200 settlements in russia, that is, we will scale 22 settlements today in the far east 200 throughout the country, including supporting cities that contribute to strengthening russia's technological sovereignty. further, a comfortable urban environment and large-scale and social infrastructure, large-scale - this is an integral part of modern integrated residential development.

far eastern investors are implementing. it is currently being tested in seven regions, with its help it is planned to build 1,800 thousand square meters of housing, where almost 70 thousand people will live. in general, i note that over the past 5 years, the volume of annual, annually built housing in the far east has grown by approximately twice, this is a good indicator, by the end of the current year, 5,600 km is expected. an important, one might say, decisive role here was played by the far eastern mortgage, as you know, we - extended it to participants in a special military operation, also

young families can use a loan at a record low 2% per annum, in which ... parents have not reached the age of 36, in addition, recipients of the far eastern hectare, employees of the enterprise of the military-industrial complex, teachers doctors. the same mortgage on the same conditions are issued in the arctic regions. we have already extended these programs until the end of 2030. i know that there were discussions in the government regarding the conditions of such mortgages in the future. i propose here. to put an end to it, to keep the rate on far eastern and arctic mortgages unchanged, namely at 2% per annum. i will add that since last year in primorsky krai, families in which a third child is born have the right to receive a payment to repay a mortgage

loan in an increased amount. not 450,000 rubles. as in the rest of the country, but 1 million rubles. agreed that a payment in a similar amount, i.e. 1 million rubles, should be introduced for large families in all far eastern regions where the birth rate is below the average for the federal district. i ask colleagues to speed up the adoption of regulations so that this measure can be implemented on july 1 of this year, i.e., essentially retroactively. i would like to dwell separately on very important issues for families, for our citizens who live, as they say, far from the mainland, in hard-to-reach, small towns and villages far east and the arctic. our task is to ensure regular, uninterrupted supplies to these settlements, reduce the time and cost of cargo delivery. last year, a decision was adopted,