ASTANA (TCA) — In 2017, Kazakhstan’s State Industrial-Innovative Development Program will be updated to reflect new global reality, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said at the meeting on the outcome of industrialization in the first half of 2016, held in Astana on July 1, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
“We all know that the fourth industrial revolution is taking place, the world economy is entering a new stage. We must be prepared to meet these challenges, so I have instructed to actualize the industrialization program taking into account new global reality,” Nazarbayev said.
“Over the years of industrialization, we have started producing more than 500 brand-new products which Kazakhstan has never made,” the President said, from locomotives and cars to clothing and medicines.
“I am especially pleased to see goods of light industry, small-scale production, toys, children’s clothing, men’s and women’s clothing, which have begun to revive under the brand ‘Made in KZ’,” he said.
However, the President pointed out that Kazakhstan’s industrial base is still very weak to produce innovative products.
During the meeting, eight new productions were put into operation in the mode of teleconference, the press service of the Ministry for Investment and Development said.
The new productions include a track center and mounted wheels plant in the Pavlodar region, a greenhouse complex for Holland roses cultivation in the Pavlodar region, an oil and fat plant in Almaty, a paper plant of sanitary-hygienic products in Astana, the Petropavlovsk tractor plant, an instant food plant in South Kazakhstan region, a thread joints of premium class cut plant in Aktau, and a plant for production of motor fuel of K5 ecological class in Aksai city in West-Kazakhstan region.
