Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs a government meeting
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin thanked government members for their joint work and noted that “support from Russian citizens has always helped” the incumbent government. He expressed confidence that the future government would continue to rely on the people. We must never forget about the needs of ordinary Russians, the prime minister stressed. Vladimir Putin said that work in the government during these “very difficult years” was “quite a challenge” and “he learned a lot from it”.
“As a mater of fact, a new mechanism has been created and tested for attracting foreign investment and granting foreign companies access to operate in strategic sectors of the Russian economy. Since it was formed four years ago, the commission has considered more than 140 applications from foreign companies and investors. An overwhelming majority of those applications has been approved.”
“We may have different approaches to problems, but our common goal is to improve the quality of life in Russia, to make it more decent, comfortable and prosperous, to create conditions for resolving demographic problems so that we can have more children and more happy children, and to help people in trouble, people with special needs.”
“A great deal has been done in recent years to advance Russian-Chinese relations. We don’t have a single irritant in our relations, but we do have shared interests. We’ve managed to develop effective instruments for achieving our common goals, with the most important of these being higher living standards and socio-economic cooperation.”