An exhibition at SibExpoCenter to show priorities of development of Siberia
The ‘Siberia and the Far East: Megaprojects and Programs’ Exhibition which will take place within the framework of the 5th Baikal Economic Forum will be a ground where 15 regions of trans-Ural Russia will show the directions of their development for the next few years.
The most important directions of the Western Siberia development are as follows: development of the strategically important oil and gas and coal fields of the North and Kuzbass region; development of the transport and energy infrastructure; development of agricultural enterprises (including the grain area of the South Western Siberia); carrying out scientific research and applied research, including the area of bio and nanotechnologies; development of tourism in Altai.
The priorities for the development of the Eastern part of Siberia are as follows: development of the strategically important oil resources of Krasnoyarsky Krai and Irkutsk Oblast; development of metallurgic production sites in the region of the Lower Angara current; development of difficult to access natural resource fields in the zone of the Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean pipeline; development of coal industry in Tyva; development of metallurgic resources in Transbaikalia (including Udokan copper field);development of the transport infrastructure (railway transport and North Sea way); creation of the Baikal special economic zone of tourist and recreation type.
As for the Far East, the main directions for the development are: development of oil extraction in Sakhalin and Yakutiya and construction of an export pipeline heading eastward; development of metallurgic resources extraction in Yakutiya and north-eastern regions; development of processing enterprises (aircraft and shipbuilding), including those within military-industrial establishment; development of sea ports and railway transport; completion of the basic highway network; development of sea recreation, environmental and extreme tourism.
These projects provided they are realized promise more than a double increase of the GDP of Siberia and the Far East by 2020.
