Tatarstan's special economic zones are once again recognized as leaders in the country's SEZ efficiency rating

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation sent to The Government of Russia reports on the results of the work of special economic zones for 2023. Such an analysis is carried out by the Ministry of Economic Development annually in accordance with the rules for evaluating the effectiveness of the SEZ, approved by a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. The industrial and production zone "Alabuga" became the leaders in efficiency in 2023 - 1st place in its group and the SEZ "Innopolis" - 2nd place among the SEZ of the technical and innovative type.

Alabuga has also become a leader among Russian SEZs in terms of the number of jobs created by residents and the management company — 5,321 (almost four times more than in 2022). 

The Innopolis SEZ took the third place among the country's economic zones in terms of investments made in 2023 - 42.4 billion rubles and the amount of taxes paid to the budget systems of Russia - 8.95 billion rubles. 

Dmitry Vakhrukov said that, in general, SEZs traditionally demonstrate positive rates. Last year, residents made more than 660 billion rubles of investments. This is 3.4 times more than in 2022, and 7.5 times more than in 2020. By the end of 2023, more than 18 thousand jobs have been created. This is 1.5 times more than in 2022.

"This year, the special economic zones turn 19 years old, their effectiveness according to the evaluation results indicates that the idea of creating "points of economic growth" in the regions with infrastructure and preferential business conditions has fully justified itself. The relevance of the mechanism is also evidenced by the fact that more than 1.2 thousand residents already work in the SEZ, which, according to this year, have actually invested over 1.8 trillion rubles in the economy of the regions and unique projects, many of which have no analogues in Russia and the world. Thanks to this, about 83 thousand people have already been provided with jobs in the real sector, where new products and services are being created, and the foundations for technological sovereignty and structural adaptation of the Russian economy are being achieved," said Alexander Novak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

"The dynamics of the SEZ operation is steadily positive, over the years the tool is only gaining momentum and becoming more attractive to business, and therefore more effective for the state, which has been in the black for the second year due to accumulated tax returns," said the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Russia Dmitry Vakhrukov.

The Deputy Minister stressed that this year, for the first time, the department assessed the multiplicative effects of the SEZ operation, as a result of which it was recorded that the contribution of SEZ residents to By the end of 2023, GDP amounted to over 1.2 trillion rubles - 36% more than a year earlier.

"Residents' R&D expenses increased by 37% and amounted to more than 22 billion rubles. This shows that business, despite the external conditions, is not afraid to innovate, is ready to develop new technologies, expand the product line and enter new markets," the Deputy minister stressed.