OREANDA-NEWS. January 30, 2015. A meeting on further cooperation of the capital with the Kazakh Ministry of Investment and Development has been held in Akimat of Astana city.

During the meeting, akim of the city Adilbek Dzhaksybekov and Minister of Investment and Development Asset Issekeshev discussed the issues of implementation of the program of forced industrial and innovative development of Astana city, development of innovation, SEZ and industrial zones, investment, tourism and transport infrastructure.

It was noted that in the framework of the Industrialization Map 22 projects have been implemented to the amount of 167.8 billion tenge with the creation of about 3 million jobs, the press service of akim of Astana reports.

The volume of production on the introduced projects of the Industrialization Map was over 90 billion tenge for 2014, having increased 1.6 times in comparison with 2013. The manufacturing industry produced goods to the amount of 270.8 billion tenge (41.5 billion tenge more than in 2013).

Results of the implementation of the first Five-Year Plan of the National Program of Forced Industrial-Innovative Development for 2010-2014 were generally favorable for Astana. However, according to A. Dzhaksybekov, today it is necessary to take into account the current economic situation in the world and proceed from the Address "Nurly Zhol": first of all, it is necessary to focus on attracting investments, including foreign ones.

“Now all our plans will be adjusted towards smaller public investment and more aimed at attraction of private investment, as a result it will stabilize the economic situation in the capital in the future. And I hope that we will feel the full support of the Ministry of Investment and Development in this direction,” A. Dzhaksybekov said.

In turn, Asset Issekeshev has expressed interest in strengthening the collaboration of the Ministry of Investment and Development with akimat of the capital, in particular, focused on the implementation of joint projects aimed at the tourist attraction of Astana.

The Minister stressed that joint activity will build the most quality work in projects of industrial-innovative orientation.

Following the meeting, A. Dzhaksybekov and A. Issekeshev identified ways of further cooperation and agreed to develop a joint action plan aimed at improving the socio-economic well-being of residents of the capital.