‘Astana - new city’ SEZ attracts more than 2 trillion tenge
16:06, 18 May 2015
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - In 2002-2015 the volume of the attracted investments in the special economic zone "Astana - new city" has reached more than 2 trillion tenge, this has been announced by Altair Uyzbayev, chairman of Board of JSC "Astana INNOVATIONS" at a briefing in Central Communications Service.
"During the years of the SEZ operation the volume of the attracted investments amounted to more than 2 trillion tenge. Beginning from 2010 there have been produced goods worth 393.5 billion tenge," said A. Uyzbayev. He also recalled that in 2013 at a meeting on Astana city development Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev instructed the Government and city administration to explore the issue of Astana entering Top 50 "smart cities" in the world by 2017.