The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events. It was established in pursuance of a decision by the President of the Russian Federation.
The Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image. One of the roles of the Foundation is to comprehensively evaluate, analyse, and cover issues on the Russian and global economic agendas. It also offers administrative services, provides promotional support for business projects and attracting investment, helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.
Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 208 countries and territories, with more than 15,000 media representatives working on-site at Roscongress’ various venues. The Foundation benefits from analytical and professional expertise provided by 5,000 people working in Russia and abroad.
The Foundation works alongside various UN departments and other international organizations, and is building multi-format cooperation with 180 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 81 countries worldwide, and 186 Russian public organizations, federal and legislative agencies, and federal subjects.
The Roscongress Foundation has Telegram channels in Russian t.me/Roscongress, English – t.me/RoscongressDirect, Spanish – t.me/RoscongressEsp and Arabic t.me/RosCongressArabic. Official website and Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation:roscongress.org.
We are in the middle of the cross-year – Russia–Japan, Japan–Russia. A lot of hard work is being done both at the level of businesses and in humanitarian exchanges. The work on the eight-point cooperation plan set out by Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has intensified — Alexey Repik, President, Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia).
About a hundred projects have been launched as part of the eight-point cooperation plan implementation. Many of those already yield tangible results in such areas as renewable energy, medicine, and agriculture — Shigeru Murayama, President of the Japan Association for Trade with Russia and the NIS (ROTOBO); Chairman of the Board of Directors, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd..
Over 150 projects have been started within implementation of the eight-point cooperation plan, and more than 200 documents have been signed in total. A great emphasis is put on cooperation in the Far East — Tatsuya Terazawa, Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan for International Affairs.
The Republic of Yakutia is dynamically developing relations with Japan. A project on a year-round greenhouse facility with the total area of 3 hectares is being implemented. By 2020 it will bring over USD 10 million of profit — Aysen Nikolaev, Acting Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Export of metals, alloys, corn, timber, as well as liquefied natural gas and crude oil is successfully developing in the Far East under the Sakhalin II project — Masami Iijima, Representative Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mitsui & Co., Ltd..
Five years ago we opened a diagnostic centre outside Vladivostok. Our efforts result in annual growth in the number of patients and improvement of local healthcare — Takao Nishida, Deputy Secretary General, Hokuto Social Medical Corporation.
In September 2017, we launched a USD 1 billion Russia–Japan Investment Fund. Out of this amount USD 200 million has been allocated to three projects and we have almost completed the fourth investment round in automotive industry start-ups — Tadashi Maeda, Governor of the Board of Directors, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).
This year’s turnover growth is approximately 20% year over year. It’s growing beyond such traditional sectors as energy. New pharmaceutical productions are being launched, new healthcare centres are being opened, new projects on improving quality of life in cities have been implemented. By the end of the year, we expect USD 21–22 billion of turnover. Already in 2019, the Russia–Japan turnover is going to exceed the Russia–USA turnover — Maxim Oreshkin, Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
Russian Railways cooperate with Japan in three areas: development of cargo shipments by Trans-Siberian Railway; planning direct railway connections between Russia and Japan through Sakhalin; upgrading the Holding’s health clinics. About 30% of Trans-Siberian traffic is traffic to Japan. It has risen by 50% over the past five years — Alexander Misharin, First Vice President, Russian Railways.
Japanese businesses pay special attention to the Far East, however, they are still not very active in the advanced special economic zones and Vladivostok Free Port. Mechanisms of attracting investments are known to only 20% of companies we surveyed — Teruo Asada, Chair of the Japan-Russia Business Cooperation Committee, Keidanren; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Marubeni Corporation.
We are moving on with the project with our Japanese colleagues. We are going to further develop our engine factory. We are going to develop the 4.0 technology. We are going to develop industrial internet here, technical vision and digital twins of production — Vadim Shvetsov, Director General, PJSC Sollers.
Within the next year or two we are going to see a significant rise in the capacity of Russian railways. We are not only interested in importing our coal to Japan. We are also interested in having Japanese technology in our Kuzbass region — Sergey Tsivilev, Acting Governor of Kemerovo Region.
Today, more than 10 billion roubles has been invested and almost USD 800 million is available for joint investments. We are considering 80 billion roubles of projects — Vladimir Primak, Director at Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).
We have signed a memorandum on cooperation with Rostelecom for elimination of a digital divide in the Far East. There are communities here that are not connected to fiber-optic communication lines — Eiichi Yonekura, Representative Director, Senior Executive Vice President, SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation.
The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events. It was established in pursuance of a decision by the President of the Russian Federation.
The Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image. One of the roles of the Foundation is to comprehensively evaluate, analyse, and cover issues on the Russian and global economic agendas. It also offers administrative services, provides promotional support for business projects and attracting investment, helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.
Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 208 countries and territories, with more than 15,000 media representatives working on-site at Roscongress’ various venues. The Foundation benefits from analytical and professional expertise provided by 5,000 people working in Russia and abroad.
The Foundation works alongside various UN departments and other international organizations, and is building multi-format cooperation with 180 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 81 countries worldwide, and 186 Russian public organizations, federal and legislative agencies, and federal subjects.
The Roscongress Foundation has Telegram channels in Russian t.me/Roscongress, English – t.me/RoscongressDirect, Spanish – t.me/RoscongressEsp and Arabic t.me/RosCongressArabic. Official website and Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation:roscongress.org.