“The Russian government has developed a broad list of measures to support the economy: concessional lending to systemic companies, simplified tax regime for a number of industries, capitalization of regional industry funds, repayment holidays for agricultural producers and others. The list of systemic companies in the Russian economy includes 21 enterprises in the Khabarovsk Region. The work on the provision of funding is ongoing. At the same time, we still have a long way to go. First and foremost, to increase the degree of localization of manufactured products,” Yury Trutnev said opening the meeting.
The Khabarovsk Regional Government’s absolute priority is the implementation of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation On Measures to Ensure Socioeconomic Stability and Protection of the Population in the Russian Federation.
The region achieved 110.1% growth in industry in the first quarter of this year. Primarily at the expense of manufacturing, at 20%, and energy, at 7.6%. Transport cargo turnover increased by 5.7% and retail trade by 1.5%. The Region’s own tax and non-tax budget revenues increased by 21.5%.
Despite the changed circumstances, the labor market has also shown stability. The number of registered unemployed is 5,000 people and the unemployment rate does not exceed one percent - 0.71%. There are more than 20,000 vacancies. The Region has approved a program of additional employment support measures.
“In terms of support for systemic companies, nine holdings and 21 self-standing businesses are currently included in the federal list of systemic companies. We have added a number of regional companies to them. Together, they account for more than 60% of turnover,” said Mikhail Degtyarev.
Consideration was given to import substitution of components for the production of the Sukhoi Superjet passenger aircraft manufactured in the Khabarovsk Region. The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to move to the production of aircraft with Russian engines by January 2023.
Support for shipbuilders was discussed. In the Khabarovsk Region, shipbuilding production has been deployed at two enterprises. The Khabarovsk Shipbuilding Yard is building two crab-fishing vessels for a customer in the Magadan Region. Also, preparations are underway to lay down a technical vessel, a dredger, for the Federal Government Institution Amurvodput Administration, and there are a number of civilian orders. Komsomolsk-on-Amur has launched production of two new corvettes, Grozny and Buyny, which were laid down last year. At present, the shipyard has orders for the construction of six corvettes.
Yury Trutnev instructed the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Russian Ministry of Finance and JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation to prepare a financial recovery plan for the Khabarovsk Shipbuilding Yard in the near future.
During the meeting, the issue of delivering food and goods from Central Russia to the Far East and back, including deliveries of frozen fish products from the Far Eastern regions, was discussed. Yury Trutnev instructed the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, together with the Russian Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic, to analyze the needs of enterprises and work out the issue of providing enterprises with refrigerated containers, the need for which increases in the summer period.
“Restrictions imposed on Russia by unfriendly countries require a response, including in terms of restructuring the work of enterprises. We have to learn how to work in these conditions, learn to produce that part of the products that we used to buy, to localize the production of the most important machines and mechanisms entirely in Russia. For the Khabarovsk Region, this work is of great importance because it is an industrial region. And the most important task is to ensure that all the products of Khabarovsk Region enterprises continue to be manufactured, even if some chains are not localized. There is a need to find the substitution chains. And also to produce those products that we do not receive from our partners abroad today for one reason or another. Our task is to maintain and increase the gross regional product,” Deputy Prime Minister noted.
