The Committee on investments sums up the results of participation in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum
On a platform of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum which has finished the work last Saturday, Committee on investments I initiated signing of agreements with the companies investors for the sum more than 150 billion dollars. It, according to the chairman of Committee Irina Babyuk, worthy result which testifies to high investment appeal of St. Petersburg, and also to effective dialogue of the power and business.
6 agreements with investors – and are such companies as JSC Morgal Investments, JSC Sberbank of Russia, JSC MERA-Stal and others, - were signed by the Governor of St. Petersburg. 2 more agreements with partners were concluded by the chairman of Committee on investments. The first of them gave start to development and deployment of investment standards in the districts of St. Petersburg. The second agreement reflected the arrangement on measures of advance of investment potential of St. Petersburg in China, including at the expense of the organization of investment platforms of the city in the largest megalopolises of the People's Republic of China. Besides, at a forum the Committee on investments presented models of seven perspective investment projects of St. Petersburg.
In days of a forum Petrostat presented actual statistics according to which following the results of the first quarter 2014 in St. Petersburg the volume of investment into fixed capital - increased by 12,3% in comparison with 2012. On this background the expert community and profile committees of St. Petersburg called into question results of the National rating of a condition of investment climate in the Russian regions, sounded at a forum. We will remind, in this rating St. Petersburg appeared in the last from five groups of regions which are distributed from the point of view of conditions for business.
- Regarding job evaluation on attraction of investments we categorically don't agree with results of a rating and we will submit the appeal on estimates on those positions which are supervised by Committee. For the last year Smolny created open and completely transparent system for involvement of investors – a uniform window, council for investments, possibility of direct contact with the governor. But these practices which already showed the efficiency, in a rating weren't reckoned, - Irina Babyuk noted.