Today in Ukimet Uyi, the Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev held a meeting on investment attractiveness and development of export potential, within the framework of the implementation of instructions given by the Head of State at the extended Government meeting dated 09.02.2018.

During the meeting, new approaches to attracting investments and conducting point work with investors from 11 priority countries and projects involving transnational companies from 26 countries were discussed. In the sphere of export policy, the work plan for the current year was considered, including the creation of a "single window" to support domestic exporters and their presence in key world export markets.

According to the measures taken and plans for the current year, the information of the heads of the national companies Kazakh Invest and Kazakh Export was heard.

Following the meeting, specific instructions were given to companies to intensify the work and effectively implement the instructions of the Head of State.

For reference: In the monitoring system of Kazakh invest NC there are 145 investment projects worth $47.8 billion with the creation of about 35 thousand jobs. Of these, 66 projects for the total amount of $10.7 billion are under implementation. According to the 2017 results, 9 projects for $188.9 million have already been implemented.

In the field of export policy, it is planned to open representative offices in 12 countries from among the key export markets. Following the 2017 results, the amount of export contracts supported was 196 137 million tenge, 42 domestic producers  were supported, and the number of foreign buyers — 108. Together with domestic financial institutions, projects worth 42.6 billion tenge were realized.