China News Agency, Moscow, November 6th. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on the 6th that with the development of new industrialization, the Moscow city government will further expand the special economic zone and make it a new type of industrialization in the city. flagship".
According to Russian media reports, Sobyanin posted on his social platform on the 6th that in recent years, one of the most significant development phenomena in the world is new industrialization.
Unlike the past, the new industry represents clean, innovative and compact.
"The new type of factory does not need to occupy a lot of land, and more often, it can complete production within a few floors of the science and technology park."
"The new industrialization has also come to Moscow."
Sobyanin cited that from 2017 to 2020, the scale of Moscow's manufacturing industry has increased by a third.
From January to August this year, Moscow's industrial output increased by another 25%.
Sobyanin pointed out that in order to stimulate the development of new industrialization, the municipal government has formed a complete ecosystem to support high-tech enterprises. One of the most critical elements is the "Moscow Science and Technology City" Special Economic Zone.
This is the flagship of Moscow's new industrialization.
According to reports, the Moscow Special Economic Zone was established in 2006, but it took 10 years to get substantive development.
The municipal government provides a series of preferential policies for enterprises settled in the special zone, such as exemption from customs duties, property taxes, transportation taxes and land taxes, and their profit income tax rate is only 2%.
The "Moscow Science and Technology City" Special Economic Zone is divided into 5 bases, distributed in 5 areas of the capital, with a total area of 223 hectares.
At present, 88 companies are stationed in the Science and Technology City, creating more than 8,000 jobs for engineers and other high-quality professionals.
Among these high-tech companies, the top three are microelectronics, information technology, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment companies.
In this year's selection of 70 special economic zones in the world by the British FDI magazine "Annual Global Free Economic Zone" awards, "Moscow Science and Technology City" won the list in the "Development of New Crown-related Medical Technologies and Drugs" industry awards.
He pointed out that in the first half of this year, the total production value of the science and technology city enterprises was 10.2 billion rubles (1 US dollar is approximately 71 rubles), which was twice that of the same period in 2019; the investment amount exceeded 11.5 billion rubles, which was 1.7 of the total investment in the whole year of 2019. Times; the city budget received 1.6 billion rubles in taxes.
Sobyanin said that in view of the "Moscow Science and Technology City" being sought after by enterprises, the city government plans to further expand the special economic zone.
In 2022, the city government will build another large industrial park as the sixth base of the "Moscow Science and Technology City".
In addition, by the end of 2026, a new science and technology park with an area of 150,000 square meters will be built.
"These projects will double the production capacity of the Science and Technology City. Moscow will provide more jobs for experts and harvest more tax revenue." Sobyanin said.
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