TULA KOMSOMOLSKAYA www.tula.kp.ru JUNE 12–19, PRAVDA Event 2019 Governor of Tula Region Aleksey DYUMIN, “We are focused on the result, I am sure it will be successful!” The Tula delegation headed rubles will be invested and up to 500 new jobs will be created. by Governor Aleksey Dyumin Tula Region expects the development of its attended the St. Petersburg oil and gas industry. A document to this end International Economic Forum was signed with the MekhMash company, last week on June 6–8 which will increase its production capacity for the development of this sector in Tula Region. Let’s look at its main outcomes for Tula One of the investment projects concerns Region. the resumption of production at Khomyakovsky The Tula exhibition stand enjoyed constant Cold Storage Facility, which was suspended attention from the first minute of its opening. long ago. On May 7, Tula Region and Our region expertly presented industrial sites JSC Yuzhmorrybflot signed a partnership that offer additional incentives to investors: agreement on creating an enterprise for the Uzlovaya SEZ, the Aleksin and Yefremov deep-processed fish products in the region. Priority Social and Economic Development Up to 200 million rubles will be invested and Areas and the Uzlovaya industrial park. 350 jobs will be created. Also, a number of important agreements Day 1 were signed in the agro-industrial sector. The first day of the forum was marked A new dairy farm will be built in the region. by a series of important meetings between On June 6, 2019 the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, CJSC Krasnobor is going to invest about Aleksey Dyumin and business people, as well the government of Tula Region and JSC Shchekinoazot signed a memorandum of 2 billion rubles in expanding its production in as the signing of a number of investment and understanding on the signing of a special investment contract. The document was signed Tula Region. partnership agreements. by the Minister of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, the Governor of Tula Region, On the first day of the forum, two major Aleksey Dyumin, and the President of Shchekinoazot, Boris Sokol. According to agreements of intent were signed regarding the signing of special investment contracts between Belyov Confectionery Company LLC “Russian Industry: a Recipe for Global the President’s strategy with industrial companies. and the Chinese company Е Pin Duo LLC for Competitiveness”. He talked about the work The plenary of the St. Petersburg With the participation of the Ministry of supplying Belyov-made pastila worth more on import substitution in the region under International Economic Forum 2019 was held Industry and Trade, there are plans to sign than 6 billion rubles. the supervision of the Ministry of Industry on June 7. Russian President Vladimir Putin a special investment contract with Haval Also on June 6, the region signed and Trade of the Russian Federation. addressed the session. The President paid Motor Manufacturing Rus LLC (HMMR), partnership agreements with VTB Bank, The success of the program is evidenced great attention to global economy issues, which put into operation its automotive JSC Transneft, PJSC Quadra, PJSC Lukoil not only by regional enterprises, but also by the need to work out a more stable and fair plant in the Uzlovaya industrial park shortly Oil Company, Procter & Gamble, etc. Thanks the state of many industries in the country as model of global development, and stressed before the forum. As part of the second stage to an agreement between Tula Region and a whole. Further work will be aimed at shifting the importance of strengthening cooperation of the project, the HMMR plans to invest PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel, a modern sports focus from internal consumers to external with China. The President underlined that more than 27 billion rubles and increase center will be built in our region. consumers. in the coming years Russia should not the production capacity of the plant to “Participation in the forum always means “Export is a very accurate marker of only become one of the world’s top five 150,000 cars a year. Up to 1,500 jobs will be new opportunities for Tula Region. The first the extent to which the country’s industry economies but also consolidate its position created. day was very productive: the agreements and economy are developed. There is at the average European level in all major “Tula Region and China that we signed will strengthen the investment an ambitious task set before us — to double parameters reflecting the quality of life and have a strong business potential of our region and will give the volume of exports,” stressed the Governor. people’s wellbeing. One of the most important relationship. In 2018, a powerful impetus for its social and economic The second day of the forum brought challenges for Russia is to take the lead in the foreign trade turnover development. June 7 will also feature new partnership agreements for Tula technological development. between Tula Region a packed business program. We are focused Region. Here are only some of the them. Aleksey Dyumin commented on and China amounted on the result, I am sure it will be successful!” The governments of the Tula and Ulyanovsk the President’s speech: to $343.3 million and said Aleksey Dyumin. regions and ANO Specialized Organization “There are two important points that can increased by 26.5 % in of the Composites Without Borders be highlighted in the President’s speech. comparison with 2017. Day 2 Industrial Cluster agreed to work together The first one: China is our strategic and On June 5, with the leaders of the two The second day of the forum was no in the development of the production of reliable partner. The second one: the need to countries present, we opened an automotive less fruitful. At the beginning of the day, composite materials and products from said attain technological sovereignty. Cooperation plant of the Great Wall company in Aleksey Dyumin participated in the session materials, import substitution and exports. should be fostered not only by the federal the Uzlovaya SEZ. We see good prospects for titled “Presentation of the National Rating of It is planned that industrial enterprises as center, but also in the regions. Tula Region is partnership in the field of culture and tourism. the Investment Climate in the Regions of well as educational and research institutions working in these areas. We are working with I am sure that our friendly relations with China the Russian Federation”. SPIEF is of the Tula and Ulyanovsk regions will be Chinese businesses. At the forum, we also will continue to develop,” said the Governor the traditional platform for presentation of part of the Composites Without Borders signed agreements with Chinese companies of Tula Region, Aleksey Dyumin. the rating results. In 2019, our region was Interregional Industrial Cluster. in the automotive and chemical industries. Another major special investment contract ranked 6th, having dramatically improved “The Composite Cluster in Russia is As for technological sovereignty, we have was signed with Shchekinoazot, which its position in terms of facilitating direct a successful example of including enterprises agreed with investors to start a number of plans to build an ammonia and carbamide communication with investors. from various industry sectors into a single projects that are aimed at attracting and production complex. Up to 40 billion rubles “Each investment agreement contains production chain and localizing the full developing domestic and foreign technologies. will be invested. a roadmap. Weekly monitoring and interaction production cycle of composite materials. That includes entering the composite cluster, On the first day of the forum, Tula Region with the investor is carried out by an assigned The cluster will allow to systematize creating an oil and gas cluster and localizing agreed to expand its cooperation with the project manager from the Development the work for identifying the most investment foreign high-tech production. Russian Export Center. This pertains to Corporation. That is recorded in the CRM attractive niches in the technological chain The outcomes of SPIEF 2019 for Tula collaboration in the development of Russian system. An investor coming to Tula Region and implement promising projects funded by Region are truly impressive. During the forum, non-resource exports through electronic becomes its resident, and its problems and private investments,” said Aleksey Dyumin. the region signed 25 agreements worth more commerce channels. The agreement is aimed progress are our common tasks. This is team Also on June 7, an agreement was signed than 100 billion rubles. That means that at coordinating the placement and promotion work in which we are fully engaged,” said between the government of the region and the development of Tula Region will continue of export products by regional small and Aleksey Dyumin. “The main gauge for our EVRAZ Uzlovaya LLC on partnership in in all areas. The region received new external medium-sized enterprises on electronic activity is the trust of businesses. That trust implementing an investment project for the funds, there will be new production units trading platforms with government support. brings new investment projects. Over the last construction of a production unit for alloying as well as facilities in all important areas of This will be real support for manufacturers four years the region arranged and concluded agents in Tula Region to make EHS steel life, and new jobs will be created. The work in Tula Region that are interested in exporting agreements totaling almost half a trillion for various purposes. There is a proposal to of our delegation at SPIEF 2019 created their goods. The relevance of export trade rubles.