Today in Innopolis the I All-Russian forum of small and medium business "Tatarstan - a support for business" is opened
15 July 2015, Wednesday
On July 15, at All-Russia forum of small and medium-size enterprises "Tatarstan-the support for business" at A.S.Popov technopark (Innopolis), Interim President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov said that it is important to create and implement real mechanisms of supporting small and medium-size enterprises today.
Before beginning of the forum, Rustam Minnikhanov discussed prospects of cooperation with the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Dmitry Tulin, and looked around the exhibition of Tatarstan companies supporting small and medium-size enterprises.
Minnikhanov welcomed participants of the event and thanked All-Russia public organization “Opora Rossii” for holding the forum in Innopolis. He noted that there are 140, 000 small and medium-size enterprises in Tatarstan, with 480, 000 people working there.
Minnikhanov stressed that the priority task is to sustain regional economy, and in spite of the crisis all measures to support small and medium-size enterprises have been maintained.
According to the rating presented by Russian Ministry of economic development, Tatarstan is one of the most favourable and investment-attractive Russian regions for doing business.
As part of the program, the Minister visited the Arsky Industrial Park, where he got acquainted with the current activities and long-term plans of the residents. During the inspection of the production facilities, Midkhat Shagiakhmetov held a substantive discussion with the heads of enterprises on capacity expansion and improving the efficiency of using the existing infrastructure.
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