Beginning of Meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin
October 1, 2009
Barvikha, Moscow Region
Рабочая встреча с Заместителем Председателя Правительства Игорем Сечиным
1 октября 2009 года
Московская область, Барвиха
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Mr Sechin, yesterday we both participated in a meeting of the Commission for Modernisation and Technological Development of Russia's Economy where we discussed energy efficiency.
Energy efficiency is a multifaceted concept and the situation in our nation regarding energy efficiency ultimately depends on our overall energy situation whether our power engineering industry is sufficiently modern, what kinds of machinery are being manufactured, and how we are replacing various previously manufactured machines as they are aging, as this leads to a variety of repercussions, including some unfortunate ones. That is why I see the revival of Russias power plant industry as a possible way to promote a new, modern, energy efficient economy.
Please tell me about the Governments plans in this respect, especially since I will certainly be signing instructions to the Government as a follow-up to our yesterdays meeting. This will be one of your tasks.
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER IGOR SECHIN: Yesterday, at the meeting of the Commission for Modernisation (and Technological Development of Russia's Economy), you identified several energy efficiency related tasks. We began working on these tasks after you signed the corresponding executive order over a year ago.
Clearly, energy efficiency is closely linked to the need to modernise Russias energy industry and energy networks; the state of our energy industry directly depends on the state of our power plant industry. Thus, based on your instructions, in the next few days we will step up our work in this area. We will carry out a comprehensive review of these problems at one of our nations power plants and report back to you on the results.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Ok. In addition to the energy sector and energy efficiency issues, we generally need to work on developing our manufacturing industry. In spite of the crisis, a certain slowdown in economic development, and even a drop in production in some areas, we still have to plan for the future, especially since all crises end sooner or later. We are already seeing some clear signs that our economy is beginning to grow.
One of the key, important sectors of our economy is shipbuilding. We have created a special company The United Shipbuilding Corporation, or USC to combine all assets in this sector and build modern ships that we can sell on the domestic and foreign markets. How do things stand with the USC, and what projects are currently being implemented?
IGOR SECHIN: Following your instructions, a report was prepared on the USCs activities.
The Executive Order to Create the United Shipbuilding Corporation was signed on March 21, 2007. We are ready to report that we have completed the integration of 37 companies and three shipbuilding and ship-repairing centres under the United Shipbuilding Corporation. We have completed work to return state property and some previously lost assets, including 26 percent of Dalzavod shares.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: How were they lost? What happened to them?
IGOR SECHIN: Some shareholders were not very conscionable in holding these assets; these assets were transferred and funnelled out. This was not conducive to attracting orders or modernising the shipyards.
It must also be noted that the ship-repairing and shipbuilding facilities in the Far East have been particularly hard-hit. The work level at these companies has been below 13 percent, and based on experiences elsewhere in the world, we know that if workloads at shipbuilding companies fall below 80 percent, production costs increase three- or four-fold there is a direct link between the two. Depreciation of fixed assets in companies in the Far East has reached nearly 80 percent.
As a result, the USCs board of directors has developed a concept geared toward restructuring and developing the Far Eastern shipbuilding centre. This would involve combining a number of enterprises and creating new high-tech shipyards, also by engaging leading global companies. We would also increase companies work levels through order placements, including orders from oil and gas companies, as well as fishing companies (we gave instructions on this matter, asking all our oil companies to place orders and provide a portfolio of orders to Russian shipyards).
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Жаль что Сечин не кандидат в президенты, я бы за него проголосовал
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