(AGENPARL) - Roma, 8 Giugno 2023(AGENPARL) – KREMLIN gio 08 giugno 2023
Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Orel Region Governor Andrei Klychkov to discuss the region’s
socioeconomic development.
The President started the conversation
by pointing out that Orel was recognised as Russia’s literary capital in 2021,
and asked the Governor to report on dedicated events.
Andrei Klychkov agreed that few
regions could boast as many prominent Russian classics as the Orel Region, including
Ivan Bunin, Afanasy Fet, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Leskov, Leonid Andreyev, Alexei
Apukhtin, and many other writers and poets. This is why literature is central
to the ongoing effort to shape the Orel Region’s identity and branding. In particular, it held major celebrations to mark Ivan Turgenev’s 200th
birthday.
The Governor went on to deliver a performance report. Over the past five years, the region has increased its
gross regional product by 60 percent, while regional budget revenue grew by 80 percent.
Investment increased by 40 percent, defying expectations that Covid and the economic
sanctions would make investors wary. Manufacturing was up by 80 percent, and agricultural production rose by 140 percent, while the region’s per capita
agricultural yields exceeded the national average 3.5-fold. The Orel Region
grows about 6 metric tonnes of grain per resident.
In the budget sphere, the region has
managed to retain stability, reducing its government debt by 32 percent. In 2020–2021, 12.1 percent of its people lived below the poverty line, down from
13.9 in 2017. Average salaries increased by 60 percent, and reported
unemployment decreased 52 percent over a five-year term. As of today, the number of unemployed is less than 2,000 people, while there are 11,000 job
openings in the region. The region’s SMEs have restored their pre-pandemic
employment levels.
Andrei Klychkov went on to say that
this would have been impossible without creating new jobs, facilitating
business activity, proactive supervision and oversight, as well as efforts to cut red tape. The region reduced the so-called investment journey by 171 days.
To be
continued.
Fonte/Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/71319
