Kazakhstan will have to adapt to new realities – President
Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has met today with the representatives of the country’s business community, Kazinform News Agency reports citing the press service of Akorda.
The meeting with the business community was held in an atmosphere of unification of the state with those contributing to the development of economy.
The President set a strategic task to strengthen economy in order to preserve and enhance Kazakhstan’s leading role in the region. The Head of State believes that this task must become the most important component of the national idea.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev noted that Kazakhstan had entered the stage of new ideas, new viewpoints, and new approaches to the solution of еру key problems of modernity, the stage when embedded stereotypes recede into the past. The country will have to rebuild itself completely and adapt to new realities.
The President believes that the wellbeing of the state, and, most of all, the younger generation, depends on the solution of this issue.
According to him, major infrastructure and industrial projects, digitalization and AI, transport and logistics development must be the priorities of economic development. Alongside, assistance to small and medium businesses must always be in the spotlight of the Government.
Earlier, the President criticized the Government’s proposal to raise VAT rate to 20%