Putin: Russia's economic growth rate will be about 4% in 2021
China News Agency, Moscow, July 19 (Reporter Wang Xiujun) Russian President Putin said at the Strategic Development and National Project Committee meeting held on the 19th that Russia’s economic growth rate in 2021 will be about 4%, and the country still has a large number of unresolved problems. .
Putin said that thanks to flexible macroeconomic policies, corporate support policies and high-tech industry support measures, Russia can quickly overcome the crisis of the new crown epidemic.
By the end of this year, Russia’s economic growth will reach about 4%, and this trend must be used to improve the living standards of the people.
Putin mentioned that the unemployment rate in Russia has almost returned to the level of 2019. "The unemployment rate was 4.7% at that time, and the current unemployment rate is 4.9%."
Putin said that Russia still has a large number of unresolved problems, including poverty, low family income, low levels of primary health care, and aging school buildings.
It is now necessary to accelerate economic, social and infrastructure development, solve environmental problems, and implement digital transformation tasks.
In the next two years, some road construction, public utilities and other important infrastructure projects in various places should have been delivered or are in the stage of near completion.
Russian Prime Minister Mishustin said at the meeting that in June this year, the level of achievement of various indicators of Russian national projects increased by 10% compared with last year.
More than 200 indicators have been completed 80%, and more than 1,200 projects have been completed nearly 90%.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Golikova said on the same day that the government plans to allocate 30 billion rubles by 2024 to create a national project called "Health Shield".
The project includes the development of a new epidemic detection system, the modernization of existing laboratories and the construction of new laboratories, etc., in order to provide more people with rapid and accurate infection diagnosis by 2024.
Affected by the new crown epidemic, the Russian economy will decline by 3.1% in 2020.
In early June of this year, Zabotkin, deputy governor of the Russian Central Bank, stated that the Russian economy will return to its pre-epidemic level before the second half of this year.
Earlier this month, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development predicted that Russia’s annual economic growth rate would reach 3.9%, instead of the previously estimated 2.9%.
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