As a part of the President's missive, the initiative "50 projects-drivers of Almaty’s development."

In his speech Almaty’s governor Bauyrzhan Baibek noted that the Missive manifested by the Head of the State, was intended to solve three key issues: economic development and growth of the well-being of citizens, development of human capital, and increase of efficiency of state administration.

"The Head of the State has defined clear tasks for the near future. Systematic work is in process for all 10 tasks of the Address in the city. According to the project principle, in the implementation of the Address of the Head of State we launch the initiative "50 projects-drivers of development of Almaty", designed to ensure further economic growth and change the face of the city. For each project, specific deadlines, executors and resources are defined. The largest number of projects in the social sphere - 30%, in the transport sector - a quarter, energy and amenities 10% each. All of them correspond to the goals and objectives of the Message, therefore it is necessary to ensure their unconditional implementation," emphasized Bauyrzhan Baibek.

According to him, among the 50 drivers, the development of the Industrial Zone is important. 41 projects for KZT 180 billion are already being implemented here. Priorities in the implementation of projects are export-oriented, import substitution and removal of industries outside the city to address environmental and safety issues. Another driver will be the Park of Innovative Technologies "Alatau", which on behalf of the Head of State will be transferred to the city and transformed into a free economic zone "Almaty". It is planned to expand the list of priority industries, projects in the fields of pharmaceuticals, defense industry, and machine building will be added.

"The head of state commissioned to increase the requirements for energy efficiency and energy efficiency of enterprises, as well as the environmental friendliness and efficiency of the energy producers themselves. Also, it is entrusted to take measures on modern utilization and processing of solid domestic waste with wide involvement of small and medium-sized businesses. We are already working on the transition to "green" energy," said the governor.

So, today 96% of the private sector has been transferred to gas heating, by the end of the year the full gasification of the private sector has to be ensured, and by 2021 - 4 thousand private houses in the suburban zone of the Almaty metropolitan area have been connected. Modernization of CHPP-1 is underway, new gas boilers will be installed instead of worn out ones for more than 35 billions tenge. Currently, in cooperation with Samruk-Energo, a preliminary feasibility study is being prepared for the transfer of CHP-2 to gas.

In addition, eco-friendly public transport is being introduced. Already today, 60% of the fleet consists of gas-powered buses and trolleybuses, 30% of the bus fleet has been renewed, 2 new metro stations are under construction. This year on the principles of PPP it is planned to start a project for the construction of LRT. The Kazakh-German company FalconEuroBus is building a plant for the production of third-generation electric vehicles. Work is being carried out to stimulate the use of electric vehicles, 12 filling stations have already been installed in the city, and by the end of 2019 47 more fuel filling stations will be installed.

To solve the problem of MSW processing before August 1, according to Italian technology, it is planned to launch a waste sorting complex with the capacity of 500 thousand tons per year. This will allow not only to dispose of garbage, but also to extract up to 8% of useful components from total volume of solid waste by 2020.

The head of the metropolis noted that the further modernization of the transport and logistics infrastructure plays a major role in the development of the city's economy. The large-scale BACAD project launched will include Almaty in the "Western Europe-Western China" system and will relieve the city of transport by 10%. The development of this direction will be facilitated by the ongoing modernization of the airport. Besides, in 2017 repairs of 7 river bridges have been completed, 5 pedestrian crossings have been built, more than 174 km of roads have been built and repaired for 29 billions tenge, which is a record indicator for recent years. 3 junctions are constructed, punching of 4 main streets is carried out.

The huge scientific and educational potential of the 38 higher educational institutions functioning in the city should be used in solving problems of innovation and developing new technologies. The initiative "50 drivers of Almaty development" includes the construction of two new modern international schools. On the basis of the Schoolchildren's Palace, a Business Incubator will be established with training in the basics of entrepreneurship. For the comprehensive solution of youth issues, the Youth Support Roadmap for 2020 is adopted. Its goal is to create all conditions for the self-realization of young citizens.

In total, 45 thousand new jobs were created in 2017, this year more than 32 thousand people will be covered by employment measures, of which about 8 thousand - state support, namely, job placement, vocational training, granting.

"The key to the development of human capital is the health of the nation. The main attention should be paid to the prevention of diseases. This, in the first place, the development of early diagnosis and popularization of a healthy lifestyle. In the next three years, as part of the growth drivers, four large medical facilities are planned to be built: the cancer center, the Kazakh-Japanese diagnostic center, the maternity hospital in conjunction with the ECO center, the international hospital MountSinai," the head of the city added.

The governor of the megapolis noted that the aspects of digitalization and the Smartcity project are of particular importance when implementing the Message. Today Almaty is the recognized flagship of digitalization among the cities of Kazakhstan, the city's share in the production of IT products is 50%. Smartcity implements systematic digital projects in the fields of security, monitoring mudflow activity, public transport, education and health. All digital projects are implemented on the basis of key principles, such as economic effect, ensuring transparency and excluding conditions for corruption, reducing costs and terms of providing municipal services, creating comfortable conditions for life and business.

In the course of the city's asset, the head of the Almaty Development Center, Zhanna Tulegenova, spoke about the possibilities of forming the Industry 4.0 and the already implemented projects of Smart Almaty. According to her, in the pilot mode, the implementation of an intelligent transport system in cooperation with the international company CISCO has been started. Smart projects in the sphere of housing and communal services, public security, public health, education and public services have been launched.

In turn, the director of school-lyceum No. 71 S.Kulik noted that another urgent task set by the President in the Address is the translation of the Kazakh language into the Latin alphabet.

"Naturally, when switching to another schedule, it will be necessary to modernize the language. First of all, it is connected with the peculiarities of the introduction of modern technologies and communications, as well as with the scientific and educational process in the 21st century. The Latin schedule will serve as another stimulus for the development of the state language at all levels of its use. Linguists argue that in this case problems will disappear on the introduction of new terms into the Kazakh language and borrowed from other languages of words, since we will be able to bring them as close as possible to their phonetics. And this is the realization of the President's instruction on Kazakhstan's integration into the world educational space indicated in the program "Ruhani zhangyru", she stressed.