The VI Baikal Economic Forum programme focuses on working out definite proposals for economic growth, increase of investment and innovation attractiveness of Eastern regions. As the Council of the Federation Speaker, the VI Baikal Economic Forum Organizing Committee Chairman Sergei Mironov says, this Forum peculiarity is the magnitude of the tasks that are set by its participants.
At the plenary session “Siberia - Land of Opportunity. Irkutsk – Point of Support”, which will be held at the VI Baikal Economic Forum, September 7, 2010, the new housing projects discussion is planned. As Ruslan Bolotov, Irkutsk Oblast Minister of Construction and Roads informed at the press conference, the priority will be given to the problems of the low-rise housing and mortgage lending.
One more event was included in the VI Baikal Economic Forum Programme- the International Conference "Russia and China: Development of Partnership. New Opportunities”. It will be held in Irkutsk on September, 7. According to the Forum Organizing Committee, the idea was put forward by the Ministry of Regional Development of Russia. Viktor Basargin, the Minister of Regional Development, and Denis Travin, the Director of the Investment Projects Department of the RF Ministry of Regional Development, are to moderate the conference.
The time schedule of the VI Baikal International Economic Forum has been adjusted insignificantly as other significant Federal events are planned to be held. The BEF has scheduled to be held on September, 6 – 9, 2010 – a day earlier than it was scheduled before. This has been announced today by Dmitry Mezentsev, Governor of the Irkutsk region.
The ongoing economic crisis has made an impact on the spatial development of Russia. As the Press Center of the VI Baikal Economic Forum has been informed by Mr. Vladimir Knyaginin, Director of the «Center for Strategic Development Center «North West» Fund, there are several results produced by such an impact, but, first of all, it is the stronger Eastern trend of the economic development.
