NEWS
In the period from 22 to 26 May 2017, the Innovation Week Forum will take place in the Stavropol Territory. This year, the Forum will be held at several venues in four cities: Stavropol, Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk, and Budennovsk.
The mission of the event is studying the global experience of innovative development, problems in the implementation of innovation projects at the regional level and ways to solve them, as well as attracting investments in hi-tech projects.
The programme of the Innovation Week 2017 will include the plenary meeting with participation of the top officials of the Stavropol Krai, leading business representatives, heads of universities, and representatives of the scientific community; breakout sessions and round tables, within which it is planned to coordinate the efforts of the representatives of business, science and government authorities in order to achieve a synergetic effect and eventually improve the economic welfare of the Stavropol Territory; training activities aimed at improving the qualitative knowledge level of regional business leaders, heads of start-up companies, and young entrepreneurs within their sectoral specifics.
Within the Innovation Week, the regional stage of the Federal Accelerator for Technology Start-Ups “Generation S” will also take place, organised by the Fund for Promoting Innovative Development of the Stavropol Territory and RVC.
Today, the House of Tatarstan Government hosted the meeting between President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Kazan Wu Yingqin. The event was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov.
Greeting the guests, the head of the republic said that Tatarstan appreciates the current high level of relations with China. According to the Tatarstan President, joint activities are carried out with Chinese companies in the fields of petrochemicals, mechanical engineering, automotive, information, agriculture, construction, health care, and tourism. For instance, last year in Mendeleyevsk, the Ammoni factory for the production of mineral fertilisers was launched, which was built with the participation of the Chinese National Chemical Engineering Corporation. In addition, Haier commissioned a factory in Naberezhnye Chelny to manufacture refrigeration equipment.
Rustam Minnikhanov expressed his confidence that activities of Wu Yingqin as Consul General of China in Kazan will contribute to the further strengthening of fruitful cooperation between Tatarstan and the PRC within the framework of the vigorously developing Russian-Chinese relations.