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Today, as part of his visit to Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in laying the foundation stone of the Haier smart factory.

Haier Corporation of China is one of the largest investors working in Russia. A memorandum on the construction of a smart factory in Tatarstan was signed in 2019 in the presence of the heads of state of Russia and China. The project is fully financed by Haier. Similar two factories are already operating in China. The Chinese company is ready to transfer the technology to Russia, particularly to Tatarstan.

Rustam Minnikhanov thanked the management of the Haier Corporation for choosing Tatarstan as the site to locate its production facilities. He noted that the smart factory will be one of the first projects of the new Haier Industrial Park.

Smart manufacturing will produce innovative products on a mass scale by individual customer orders. The plant is a system of automated digital modules connected both with each other through integration into the internal information network and with the outside world. In the new smart factory, all appliances and technologies will be connected to the Internet.

The Haier smart factory project consists of three factories: refrigerators, domestic freezers, and commercial freezers. The implementation deadline is the third quarter of 2022. It is expected to create 836 new jobs. The planned total production capacity of the smart factory will be more than 1 million units.

The International Economic Forum has begun its work in St. Petersburg at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre. From June 2 to June 5 it will bring together representatives of business communities to discuss key economic issues.

The Forum takes place in a face-to-face format with business, cultural, and sporting programmes, displays of companies, countries, and regions, in strict compliance with all safety measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus infection.

The topic of this year’s Forum is “Together Again: Economy of New Reality”. The SPIEF’2021 programme consists of four parts: Joining Forces to Advance Development, Delivering on National Development Targets, Human Factor in Responding to Global Challenges, and New Technology Frontiers.

Today, on June 3, the official opening ceremony of the Forum will be held. During these sessions and meetings, it is planned to discuss the economy of unlimited resources, investment attractiveness of backbone industries, and the evolution of the role of small business.

On June 4, a plenary session will be held with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The head of state’s speech will focus on the socio-economic development and investment attractiveness of the country.

The SPIEF’2021 programme will close on June 5 with the Youth Economic Forum.

Today, German Lerner, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, chaired the meeting with the heads of trading companies on the issue of vaccinating employees against coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

During the meeting, Deputy Minister Lerner stressed the particular importance of protecting the staff of trading companies from the dangerous infection as they come into contact with a large number of people every day in order to provide the population with essential food products. Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Office of the Russian consumer protection agency Rospotrebnadzor Lubov Avdonina delivered a report on the importance of vaccination.

Mass vaccination is the only effective way to stop pandemics with no alternative. Allowing the human population to acquire collective immunity by natural way means that more than 75%-80% of all people should be vaccinated against coronavirus infection.

However, no vaccination guarantees 100% protection against the disease. The vaccine protects against a severe course, complications, and deaths. The disease, if it does occur, is either asymptomatic or in a mild form. Therefore, it will still be necessary to wear a mask, where appropriate, until a collective immunity rate of 60% has been achieved.

As of today, 371,870 people in Tatarstan have been vaccinated against coronavirus infection, of whom 265,842 received the second component.

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade is organising a second practical session to explain changes to legislation on cluster policies, as well as to share experience in the development of industrial co-operation between enterprises in various regions. The event is scheduled for June 24-25 in Saransk (Republic of Mordovia). Invitees to the practical session are heads of special organisations and companies within the existing and emerging industrial clusters, and cluster development centres.

In order to take part in the event please fill in the registration form until June 18, 2021 using the following link: https://forms.gle/E5qkQvzUGzqySz3v5.

Also by June 11, 2021 the participants of the industrial clusters, planning to present their cluster projects at the event in the Republic of Mordovia have to prepare and send the project documentation (see list below).

Downloadable forms of documents can be found at the following links:

- Practical session programme;

- List of documents required for the presentation of joint cluster projects;

- Blank forms of estimates, planning schedule and indicators;

- Template for joint project presentation.

Contact person for organisational issues of participation in the practical session is Marina G. Solonina, Head of Cluster Development Dept. of Technopark-Mordovia, Tel.: +7 (903) 325-00-68, m.solonina@tpm13.ru

For the first time in Tatarstan, the AGROVOLGA agricultural exhibition will feature the regional Tractor Show contest where machine operators will compete for the title of best tractor driver.

The contest will be held in two parallel 100-metre-long sections with absolutely identical obstacles and simultaneous starts. Within 7 minutes, participants should demonstrate their skills of figured driving with a load and the obligatory observance of the marking.

The Tractor Show, a professional tractor driving skills contest, will be held on Deutz-Fahr tractors under the auspices of Rosagroleasing on the adjacent fields near the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Tatarstan reminds that the AGROVOLGA International Agro-Industrial Exhibition will be held as an urban-natural display both outdoors and inside the pavilions of the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre, combining all areas in one location.

See you in Kazan at AGROVOLGA’2021 on July 1 to 3!

Contacts of organisers:

Republic’s Agro-Industrial Investment and Innovation Centre (RACIN)

36 Fedoseyevskaya St., Kazan, 420111, Russia

Tel./fax: +7 (843) 221-77-95

E-mail: expo.racin@tatar.ru Websites: racin.ru, agrovolga.org

On July 1 to 3, Tatarstan will host AGROVOLGA’2021, the largest field exhibition organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Tatarstan.

This is a comprehensive event, which includes an open-air agro-industrial exhibition and a business forum at the Kazan Expo, where newest achievements and latest technologies in agriculture will be demonstrated.

The exhibition will showcase new crop varieties and a wide range of equipment for agricultural producers, including locally produced machinery.

In addition, irrigation experts of Tatarstan will demonstrate a new up-to-date land reclamation system built under the republic’s targeted programme for land reclamation development. The project was implemented during the autumn-winter period and was successfully put into operation this week. The system makes it possible to minimise climate risks.

It should be reminded that Tatarstan is a region of risky agriculture, where atmospheric droughts recur more often and alternate with rare rainy years. In these conditions, agrarian production cannot do without complicated melioration, because otherwise natural-climatic risks will doom domestic agriculture to failure. Land reclamation measures allow full or significant compensation for yield reductions.

The 7th International Business and Government Retail Week Forum organised by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia and the Russian Association of Retail Market Experts is taking place in Moscow from 31 May to 4 June.

The Retail Week is the key industry event, which discusses trends in retail trade development, identifies government approaches to the formation of the present-day retail market, and tackles the problems of the sector.

The programme traditionally includes events attended by heads of federal authorities, representatives of consumer market authorities of Russian regions, leading federal and regional retailers, major Russian and international supplier organisations and other consumer market participants.

Every year, a delegation from Tatarstan takes part in the forum, including representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, the Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs’ Rights, and the Tatarstan Alcohol Association.

The organisers have scheduled a 5-day business programme which will incorporate plenary meetings, expert sessions, business conferences, presentations, and roundtables. The forum’s programme will comprise several thematic blocks.

The forum will also include the annual Retail Week Awards, which will recognise the most effective companies that have presented breakthrough solutions for Russian retail in more than 25 categories.

Kazan DSK, one of the largest enterprises in Tatarstan producing prefabricated house sets for the construction of multi-storey large-panel houses, entered a programme of the Labour Productivity national project in June 2019.

The programme “Improving Productivity in the Production of Reinforced Concrete Slabs on the Sommer Circulation Line” was implemented here as a pilot project with the participation of the Federal Competence Centre (FCC).

The first step in implementing the programme was the setting up of a project team at the plant which optimised the processes at the pilot stream under the watchful eye of FCC specialists.

In parallel to the optimisation processes which have been initiated, managers were trained in the decomposition of objectives: the work of the entire company was broken down into its individual components and each objective was considered separately. Certification of internal trainers was also carried out at the plant, who then independently trained specialists and heads of individual working teams.

The Labour Productivity and Employment Support national project was approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018 and is intended to create conditions for continuous growth in country’s labour productivity. To implement the tasks set, the Russian Government initiated a package of measures to support businesses.

The Karavan Children’s Film Studio and Kazanorgsintez summed up the results of their joint educational project entitled “Kids Shooting a Factory”. Within the framework of the project, a series of master classes on the creation of video clips were held for pupils of the studio. In conclusion, the children were able to shoot a social film on the Kazanorgsintez site based on their own script.

The Kids Shooting a Factory project was launched in March 2021 with the introduction of students of Karavan Film Studio to Kazanorgsintez. Young filmmakers from Kazan were shown the pyrolysis furnace, control room of the ethylene plant, and a product bagging shop. The students studied the history of Kazanorgsintez and peculiarities of chemical production, delved into social aspects of the industry and environmental problems associated with it.

At the second stage, the project’s partner, King of Media video production studio, held a series of master classes for novice film and video directors in scriptwriting, production, directing, working with the camera and light, and editing.

The third stage was a script contest for Chemist Day from Kazanorgsintez.

Kazanorgsintez is one of the largest polyethylene producers and the only producer of polycarbonate in Russia (part of the TAIF Group). It is the only Russian member of the international PE100+ Association. The company is the largest exporter of polyethylene among Russian producers. Kazanorgsintez supplies its products to 35 countries worldwide.

On May 31, talks were held in Tashkent between the officials from the Mirzo Ulugbek National University of Uzbekistan and the delegation of the Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University (KFU).

Tatarstan delegation was represented by the Representative of Tatarstan in Uzbekistan Aydar Ahtareev, Director of the Institute of Management, Economics, and Finance of KFU Nailya Bagautdinova and Deputy Director Oksana Polyakova. From Uzbekistan, the guests were met by Principal of the National University Inom Majidov, Vice Principal for International Relations Raima Shirinova, and Dean of the Faculty of Geography and Natural Resources Shavkat Sharipov.

The parties noted with satisfaction the high level of cooperation between the two leading universities, especially in the field of training bachelor students of the National University of Uzbekistan on a dual-degree programme. Tatarstan party suggested expanding the dual programme for bachelor’s degrees not only in cartography and psychology, but in finance and economics as well.

KFU is ready to support the training of Masters, PhD, and doctoral students. The Uzbekistan side expressed interest in training masters in financial analytics, business informatics, cyber security, and applied mathematics. Proposals to establish direct links between leading departments, develop academic mobility, establish cooperation on parity terms in the field of student and youth programs, and hold all sorts of festivals and sports competitions were also voiced.