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On June 20, a meeting was held at the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade on the introduction of digital products by the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation at enterprises in Tatarstan.

The main speaker was Director of Product Management for the Rosatom Digital Economy Programme Aleksandr Churaev. A report was also presented by a representative of the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre at the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics.

Aleksandr Churaev explained in detail some issues in the implementation of the “Digital Technology” federal project which is part of the Digital Economy National Project.

In his report, he conducted a brief analysis of measures to support enterprises and spoke about the size of the grants, the existing limits, the conditions for receiving the grants, as well as the role of financial operators in supporting enterprises.

Representatives of enterprises taking part in the first and second lines of the project and interested in introducing digital products had an opportunity of asking their questions to the speakers.

Today, the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade hosted a meeting of the working group for e-commerce and related infrastructure development in Tatarstan.

The subject of discussion at the meeting was a draft programme to attract national manufacturers to the OZON Group online platform.

The company’s representative Sergey Kuchushev who was present at the meeting, spoke about some of the features of the OZON platform, the problems of online trading and the factors hindering its growth, as well as the opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses to enter the online sites.

The working group for e-commerce and related infrastructure development in Tatarstan was established in pursuance of the instructions by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.

At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2019, a cooperation agreement was signed between the Tatarstan Government and the OZON Group. This agreement envisages the implementation of the OZON investment project for the construction of a logistics centre in the Zelenodolsk Industrial Site.

The republic’s Government holds the situation at the Invent Group enterprises under its control and is interested in maintaining the stability of production facilities and jobs.

That was the gist of the meeting with representatives of the Invent Management Company held today at the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade. The meeting was chaired by Minister Karimov.

“For effective cooperation, I suggest to create a working group and jointly work out measures to recover the enterprise, proceeding from the fact that the company’s production facilities have been fully preserved”, said the minister.

Today, Naberezhnye Chelny hosted the Hyundai Supplier Day. The event was organised by the Tatarstan Mechanical Engineering Cluster jointly with the Samara Region Automotive Industry Cluster, with the support from the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade.

As part of the Hyundai Supplier Day, an exhibition took place dedicated to the activities of enterprises and their products.

At the event, presentations of Hyundai and company’s first-tier suppliers were made, B2B meetings with potential suppliers were held, and visits to production sites of Tatarstan suppliers were arranged.

The event was attended by executives and employees from the auto component procurement department at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus, representatives of the first-tier Hyundai suppliers (Sejong, Daewon, NVH, Donghee, Mobis, Sungwoo, Yura, Doowon, Peterform, Hanil) localised in Russia, as well as representatives of the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade.

To date, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus is the second largest manufacturer of passenger cars in the Russian Federation after Avtovaz. In 2018, more than 235,000 vehicles left the assembly line of its plant in St. Petersburg.

The Russian Helicopters holding (part of the Rostec Corporation) presented the concept of the upgraded Ansat light helicopter at the Paris Air Show 2019. A number of new design solutions and options are applied, which will be introduced into full-scale production in the coming years.

In particular, the Ansat presented at Le Bourget Airport is equipped with a “glass cabin”, a new package of avionics equipment that allows flights in accordance with instrument flight rules. The helicopter is also equipped with a weather radar, an enhanced ground proximity warning module, a wreck-resistant fuel system, LED lighting tools, and a wire cutter for wire strike protection.

It is planned that the Ansat fuselage will be partly made from composite materials which would help to reduce helicopter's weight and operation costs. The number of passengers will increase up to 8 persons and the range will expand by 30%.

The light multipurpose Ansat helicopter was designed by the Kazan Helicopters Design Office. The rotorcraft is equipped with two engines and can be used for passenger and VIP transportation, cargo delivery, environmental monitoring, and as a medevac transport. High-altitude tests of Ansat have been successfully completed, which confirmed that it can be operated in mountainous terrain at altitudes up to 3,500 metres.

Last week, an extended meeting in the video conference format was held on the implementation of the national project titled “Labour Productivity and Employment Support”. The meeting was attended by Minister Karimov.

In his report, he noted that within the implementation framework of the Labour Productivity and Employment Support project the major enterprises of Tatarstan will ensure a labour productivity growth of 5% each year by 2024.

“It is expected that there will be 351 major enterprises in the republic ensuring a stable growth of labour productivity. They will become a locomotive to which other republic’s enterprises should join”, the minister explained.

“The growth in labour productivity of medium-sized and large businesses in all basic non-resource sectors of the Tatarstan’s economy should be at least 5% per year by 2024. The entire national project is divided into three parts: support for, and increase in, labour productivity; support for employment and increase in labour market efficiency; and targeted support for raising labour productivity in enterprises”, said Albert Karimov.

For a number of enterprises interested in this work, a number of support measures and additional services are suggested. To participate in the project, basic pilot enterprises will be selected. These are leading enterprises, which by their example would show that all indicators are achievable and the programme really works.

The International Cooperation and Exports National Project is used to support manufacturing enterprises that implement corporate competitiveness improvement programmes (CCIP), that are programmes of organisation’s activities aimed at improving competitiveness, increasing production output and sales of their products.

Such enterprises can be provided with loans on easy terms and conditions (subsidising the credit rate up to 4.5%) for the creation of export-oriented facilities in Russia and abroad, as well as for export finance (pre-export, post-export), factoring, loans to foreign buyers of company’s products, payments for funding insurance premiums under the export credit insurance contract.

Minimal requirements for participants include:

1. Confirmation of the fact of production in accordance with the Resolution of the Russian Federation Government No. 719;

2. Absence of delays and debts to the budget and extra-budgetary funds;

3. Neither a foreign legal entity, nor an offshore company, and has not been in the process of liquidation or bankruptcy for the last 3 years.

The CCIP requirements, the procedures for selecting and forming a single register of organisations are governed by the Resolution of the Russian Government No. 191 of February 23, 2019.

You can ask your questions by calling the hotline: +7 495 510 33 05 or by Email: kppk@exportcenter.ru

The application deadline is extended to June 15, 2019.

The Interfax international information group annually publishes a Fundamental Efficiency Rating for Russian businesses. The rating is the most widespread tool for assessing the social and environmental responsibility of companies and businesses in municipalities and regions of Russia. The next cycle of comparisons for the country's regions on fundamental efficiency factors in the production of real products and services can be viewed at https://interfax-era.ru/reitingi/2019/reiting-regionov-rossii.

In the calculations, Interfax uses the ratings of the environmental and energy efficiency of businesses in a region for the previous year and development estimates for the infrastructure of cities and municipalities. The specific values ​​of environmental cleanliness and energy intensity of businesses in each region are compared with the level of the best technologies in their respective industries.

The fundamental factors include the energy-resource efficiency of economic activities, the technological efficiency of the equipment used in the production, the municipal infrastructure development, the social responsibility (transparency) of a business, and the overall change in efficiency.

This year’s novelty was adding a criterion for the municipal infrastructure development determined for all the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The infrastructure criterion for regional-level ranking was formed by summarising the estimates of all municipalities in each region of the Federation.

Today, Minister Karimov arrived in Harbin (Heilongjiang Province, China) as part of the Tatarstan President’s delegation. The visit of the Tatarstan delegation was timed to coincide with the 6th Russian-Chinese Expo 2019, which takes place from June 15 to June 19 at the Harbin International Exhibition and Conference Centre.

The extensive visit programme includes various official and business events: the meeting of the Tatarstan President with Governor of Heilongjiang Province Wang Wentao, the participation of the Tatarstan delegation in the Tatarstan-Heilongjiang Business Forum and a visit to the 6th Russian-Chinese Expo 2019.

The second half of the day was devoted to business meetings with representatives of Chinese companies. The delegation visited the Harbin Corner Science and Technology Company and the Wondersun Diary Company.

The programme continued with the meeting of the Tatarstan President with Secretary of Heilongjiang Provincial CPC Committee Zhang Qingwei.

An important stage of the visit was the signing of an Action Plan to the Agreement between the Government of Tatarstan and the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province on trade, economic, scientific, technology, and cultural cooperation.

The visit to Harbin ended with a concert of masters of arts from Tatarstan organised within the framework of the 6th Russian-Chinese Expo 2019.

This weekend, the first Rukami festival of ideas and technologies was held in Kazan. The Kazanskaya Yarmarka site brought together all-aged makers, enthusiasts of technical creativity, and others who wanted to join the maker community.

The festival programme included a set of educational, competitive, and exhibition events: an educational module, master classes, a contest programme, as well as activities in the lecture hall and exhibition areas.

Within the framework of the programme, two tracks simultaneously took place, namely “Children for Children” (game quests, interactive platforms, master classes and competitions for the age category from 14 to 21) and “Teachers for Children and Teachers” (master classes and workshops from active makers).

The festival also included a Rukami contest of technical creativity projects, where makers’ projects were presented, as well as the best technical creativity practices from children and young people.

The Rukami Festival is a large-scale event that is part of the federal non-commercial project titled “Kruzhok (Circle) Movement of the National Technology Initiative”. The festival is aimed at attracting the attention of young people and a wide audience to technical creativity, maker activities, creating their own projects in circles. The partner of this event in Kazan is the University of Talents with the support from the Ministry of Education and Science of Tatarstan.