Putin instructed VEB.The Russian Federation supports original Russian projects

The level of technological development and the state of the economy allow Russia to engage in its own developments and production organization on domestic platforms. Vladimir Putin said this at a meeting with the chairman of the State development Corporation VEB.Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov. The Head of State stressed that it is necessary to focus on them today, since exclusively import substitution and "reverse engineering" will not help Russia to succeed in the field of technology.

What was discussed at the meeting

Vladimir Putin named VEB.The Russian Federation is one of the largest development institutions in the country. The volume of the state corporation's business in the first half of the year amounted to 7.5 trillion rubles, Igor Shuvalov said. He also said that the capital of the state corporation is currently estimated at 1.4 trillion rubles, and the capital adequacy is over 16%. VEB.The Russian Federation is a state corporation that provides financing for socio-economic projects.

Igor Shuvalov presented the successes in import substitution to the President. Among them is the localization of the production of 5G base stations in Shuya. However, in order to achieve technological leadership, he said, "new knowledge, ambitious knowledge, backed by appropriate financial instruments" is needed. Today, an audit of measures to support technological projects is being conducted jointly with the Ministry of Economic Development, the head of the state corporation noted.

Russia will not achieve technological leadership by engaging only in import substitution and reverse engineering, Vladimir Putin said. He instructed the WEB.It is important to pay attention to this task when identifying future promising projects for support. "We need our own developments and production organization on our own platforms. And now we have both the level of technological development and the state of the economy that allows us to do this," the president noted.

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According to the head of the state corporation, Moscow has all the prerequisites to achieve world leadership in the field of unmanned aircraft. "We work within the ASI, the Industrial Development Fund, and other organizations. There are all the possibilities here to put together a technological leadership project," Igor Shuvalov summed up.