Investments in industry: new enterprises are opening in the Saryarka SEZ

Deputy of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan Serik Uteshov visited the Karaganda region on a working trip. During the visit, he visited the Saryarka special economic zone, where he discussed issues of attracting investments and developing industry.

The Saryarka SEZ was established in 2011 to develop metallurgy and metalworking, but now 37 more types of activities have been approved for it.

Today, there are 14 enterprises operating on its territory, and nine more projects are under implementation. During the operation of the zone, the volume of investments exceeded 219 billion tenge, more than 1.1 thousand permanent jobs were created.

– As part of the instructions of the Head of State to attract investors, a new investment strategy is being comprehensively developed, which implies the expansion of the territory of the SEZ with the creation of subzones. In this regard, we need to expand our activities – we ask you to add 12 more in terms of airport operations: transportation services, logistics, cargo transportation, hotel construction, sale of aviation fuel, and others. The second issue is to strengthen the structure of our SEZ. We look at it by analogy with other economic zones – in Turkestan, Astana, Almaty there are entire investment attraction units," said Alibek Moldakarimov, Deputy head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Industry of the Karaganda region.

During the meeting, issues of energy capacity and infrastructure development were also raised, which directly affect the launch of new production facilities.

Senator Serik Uteshov stressed his willingness to help resolve emerging issues at the legislative level.

– The head of State constantly talks about the need to attract investments in industry and other areas. For our part, we are ready to assist in resolving legal issues," said Serik Uteshov.

Following the meeting, a list of proposals and problematic issues will be formed for further consideration at the government level.

Photo  by Alexander Marchenko