Prime Minister wraps up tour to eastern provinces

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Prime Minister, Mr J.Erdenebat toured to Khentii and Dornod provinces on September 22-25. The Premier started off from the birthplace of Chinggis Khaan and held a meeting with residents of Khentii on Thursday. At the meeting, J.Erdenebat promised to settle the funding of MNT 350 million for the construction of an electric substation, which will help commissioning of the province’s secondary school. The citizens voiced their ideas and opinions on the matters related to combating animals’ contagious diseases, capacity building of veterinarians and other specialists, re-construction of Khentii-Ulaanbaatar road, tourism development and commissioning of buildings of the theatre and hospital. Then, the Premier left for Dornod province. Upon arrival, he laid wreaths at the statue of Marshall Kh.Choibalsan and headed for the meeting with the locals. The latter expressed their outrage for the mass selling of the lands to “outsiders” under the so-called authorization of establishing the Khalkhgol Free Trade Zone, and requested the PM for solution. Mentioning the size of the sold lands have hit over 320 thousand hectares, the PM pledged to cancel the previous resolutions and turn the Khalkhgol region into an industrial area for export-oriented productions. He promised to reflect the citizen’s requests in the further policy decisions. The citizens also wished to have proper measures undertaken against the major destruction of the surrounding environment, caused by the lack of paved roads in the countryside, and proposed raise the number of Mongolian employees in Petro China Dachin Tamsag Mongol Company. Afterwards, the Premier got au fait with the operations of Eastern Energy System JSC, which supplies electricity to Dornod and some soums of other eastern provinces. Due to the growing demand in power, the government is studying possibilities to expand the power plant capacity up to 100 megawatt. The Government had planned to conduct expansions for five power plants within 2016, including the Eastern Energy System. On Sunday, PM J.Erdenebat attended an opening of a fodder factory in Khalkhgol soum of Dornod. The factory of Altai Group will produce 100 thousand tons of animal fodder and has a capacity to supply fully the domestic demand and 40-50 percent of the Northeast Asian region’s consumption. The Group has planted wheat, colza and purple medic on more than 20 thousand hectares of area. The first productions are coming out next week. “We are yielding harvests three times each year. Two or three more such factories as this can be built. Equipped with fully automated European technology the factory avails 120 workplaces”, introduced Kh.Bat-Erdene, the director-general of the Altai Construction. The same day, the Prime Minister visited the 21st petroleum field of Petro China Dachin Tamsag.