We work on shifting Kazakh economy into innovative-technological platform: N.Nazarbayev
ASTANA. December 7. KAZINFORM /Askar Bimendin/ "The main wealth of Kazakhstan should be its highly educated people", President of Kazakhstan N.Nazarbayev said lecturing in the Nazarbayev University in Astana on Tuesday.
"Today, the paradigm and format of the global process are changing rapidly - the world enters into the postindustrial development stage. In this new epoch the basis of a country's welfare consists not only in the natural resources or developed industrial base. According to experts, 15% of the total national wealth of the most successful countries takes material values, 15-20% - natural resources and 65% - human capital", N.Nazarbayev said.
"People with their knowledge and skills form the basic strategic resources of development. This approach had the key importance in the leading economic development of a range of states such as Japan, Finland, South Korea, Singapore, Brazil, etc. Knowledge becomes a driving force of the progress, a source of new benefits.
In this regard, today we rapidly solve the task on shifting the Kazakh economy into an innovative-technological platform. Such strategy helps Kazakhstan to withstand the most difficult in last decade world crisis, provides new economic growth", the President said.