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13 september, 2010 18:21

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting in Nizhny Novgorod to discuss the future of the petrochemical industry

In his introductory remarks, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin outlined several challenges for the petrochemical industry. First, he suggested creating a national centre for chemical technology at a leading Russian chemistry university. Second, he highlighted the need to manufacture high-tech materials for housing and road construction and other industries. Third, he noted that a competitive petrochemical industry needs new, durable processing facilities, and that infrastructure limitations and administrative barriers must be overcome in order to create these facilities.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Nizhny Novgorod on the future of the petrochemical industry|13 september, 2010|19:48 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Nizhny Novgorod on the future of the petrochemical industry|13 september, 2010|19:48 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of the Government Staff Sergei Sobyanin, left, and Minister of Energy Sergei Shmatko, right|13 september, 2010|19:48 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of the Government Staff Sergei Sobyanin at the meeting on the future of the petrochemical industry|13 september, 2010|19:48 President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, left, and Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Yury Trutnev at the meeting on the future of the petrochemical industry|13 september, 2010|19:48 From left: Minister of Energy Sergei Shmatko, Presidential Envoy Plenipotentiary to the Volga Federal District Grigory Rapota, President of the Republic of Bashkortostan Rustem Khamitov and Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Valery Shantsev|13 september, 2010|19:49 Participants of the meeting on the future of the petrochemical industry|13 september, 2010|19:49