Over 60,000 jobs to be created as part of Shymkent development plan until 2023

AKIPRESS.COM - Over 60,000 jobs will be created as part of implementation of the Complex Development Plan for Shymkent until 2023, the press service of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
The Complex Development Plan for the City of Shymkent until 2023 was adopted on July 9 at the government session chaired by Prime Minister Askar Mamin.
The city mayor Gabigulla Abdrakhimov reported on the main directions and activities of the Complex Development Plan.
The plan provides for the implementation of 89 activities in 10 areas.
Summing up the report, the Shymkent mayor noted that following the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan by 2023, the volume of industry will be doubled, over 60 thousand jobs will be created.
Minister of National Economy Ruslan Dalenov reported on the socio-economic effect of the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan for the economy of the city and the country as a whole.
According to him, the results of 2018 demonstrate that the volume of the gross regional product of the city amounted to 2 trillion tenge. The share in the republican volume of 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 billion tenge, taking into account investments in the modernization and reconstruction of the refinery. In the structure of the local economy, 26.5% is accounted for by industry, 58.4% - services, 15.4% of which are trade.