Today, the Comprehensive Plan for the Development and Development of the City of Shymkent until 2023 has been submitted for approval.
Shymkent is the third largest city in Kazakhstan. The structure of his economy is as follows.
At the end of 2018, the gross regional product of the city amounted to 2.0 trillion. tenge. The share in the republican GDP is 3.4%.
GRP per capita is 2.1 million tenge.
Labor productivity - more than 4.4 million tenge.
The volume of investments reached 588.0 billion tenge, taking into account investments in the modernization and reconstruction of the oil refinery.
In the structure of the local economy, 26.5% falls on industry, 58.4% - services, 15.4% of which is trade.
In order to give the city a new impetus for development, a Comprehensive Plan for the Development and Development of the City of Shymkent until 2023 was developed.
The plan consists of 89 measures totaling 1,284 billion tenge, including 299 billion tenge from the national budget.
The implementation of the plan will ensure the achievement of the following indicators in 2023:
access to centralized water supply will increase from 93% to 98%;
natural gas supply will increase from 92% to 98%;
the proportion of roads in satisfactory condition will increase to 59.4%;
the unemployment rate will decrease from 5.1% to 4.9%, etc.
At the same time, the city’s economy should increase to 3.5 trillion. tenge. In real terms, this is an average growth of 5.5% per year.
About 60 thousand jobs will be created.
In the structure of the economy, an increase in the share of the services sector, industry, construction and trade is expected.
To ensure this volume, the level of investment will be brought up to 30% of GRP according to the results of 2023 or to 1.0 trillion. tenge per year. This is 1.8 times more than 2018.
Shymkent has great economic potential. Significant investments will be attracted to infrastructure, energy, tourism and the services sector.
All this will ensure real growth of the regional economy at 5.5% annually. This is higher than republican significance.
Economic activity will increase the welfare of the population.