OREANDA-NEWS. September 15, 2011. One of the key directions of development of Ukrainian industry was a high-tech engineering industry, - the First vice Prime Minister - Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Andriy Klyuyev said this, commenting of the State Program of development of domestic production approved by the Government .

According to him, Ukraine can successfully compete with foreign producers as in price as quality of products in certain segments of the global engineering. As an example, Andriy Klyuyev pointed to the Novokramatorsk machine-building plant, which timely modernized production and introduced a system of strategic management, so it can carry out important orders and compete with other world producers.

"Today we are speaking about the need for modernization of most sectors of the economy and machine-building plays a leading role here the retooling and updating of all production depends on it. Therefore, the introduction of scientific and technological progress and improvement, above all, own techniques and technologies of mechanical engineering is the problem number one, defined by the program for development of domestic production", - said Andriy Klyuyev.

"Our task is as soon as possible to give a new impetus to the development of mechanical engineering and eventually go to 30 per cent of the total output of industrial products", - said the First vice Prime Minister.

Andriy Klyuyev convinced that it is unacceptable situation if two thirds of total industrial production falls at industries producing raw materials and energy resources i.e. intermediate consumption, which is also a very energy and material intensive and has low added value.