BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 29
By Klavdiya Romakayeva - Trend:
New power plants with a total capacity of 760 MW will be commissioned in the Tashkent, Navoi, Samarkand, and Surkhandarya regions of Uzbekistan in 2021, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyev said in a message to parliament, Trend reports with reference to the press service of the president.
The president said that next year the country has set the task of assimilating investments worth $23 billion. As a result, 226 large industrial and infrastructure facilities will be commissioned in 2021.
It was noted that hundreds of facilities for the production of textile, construction, leather, and footwear, food and pharmaceutical products will be built throughout the country.
It is planned to launch two large hydrometallurgical plants at the Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combine and a plant for processing industrial waste at the Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine.
“Only in the Yashnabad Technology Park of Tashkent city 11 modern electrical production facilities will be put into operation, thus their total number will reach 17, and the number of working personnel will amount to 11,000,” the president stressed.
In addition, an industrial complex worth $3.6 billion and a capacity of 1.5 million tons of kerosene, diesel fuel, and liquefied gas per year will start operating in the Kashkadarya region.
The government also has been instructed to draw up a list of promising clusters and develop a special program for their accelerated development by April 1 next year.
“In the future, it is necessary to build up the potential to increase the production of industrial products “in the mode of processing in the customs territory”. At the same time, the participation of the state in the implementation of investment policy should be reduced and the share of private and direct investment should be increased,” the president said.
Furthermore, this year investors were granted rights to 21 deposits and promising areas in the field of geology at an open auction. In 2021, another 50 fields and promising sites will be sold to local and foreign investors on the basis of open tenders.
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