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Medvedev names priorities in developing textile industry
IVANOVO, June 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev named the priorities in developing the country's textile industry, at a meeting of the State Council's Presidium on Friday.
The State Council discussed ways of upgrading the textile industry and
raising the standard of living and social protection of its employees.
"The state and the business community should focus on the competitive
niches available to us today, where we can be leaders," he stated.
"Such concentration of efforts will provide an opportunity for a quick
breakthrough in a number of fields; at any rate, it may create conditions
for a rapid breakthrough and we must make efforts towards integrating our
textile industry in the international labor division system," he said.
"The key task is a qualitative modernization of the industry. A
thorough overhaul of production is necessary, along with the launching of
state-of-the-art technologies and a dramatic increase in labor
productivity. We have to use the experience of foreign companies which
succeeded in turning their ageing production into modern and highly
effective one, over a relatively short period. I mean companies in China,
Hong Kong, Germany, Italy and Turkey.
"Practically all of them renewed the fleet of their looms in a
decade," Medvedev said.
"It is in the textile industry that the newest developments, including
nanotechnologies can be used, which our colleagues are doing," he
underlined.
"Stimuli for investments remain a strategic priority. Today, borrowing
is hampered by high interest rates on credits. It's an obvious thing,
they're ubiquitously high, but for the textile industry works they're
simply unaffordable," he went ton so say.
In addition, the industry has to apply the so-called "cluster
approach," which is already used in other sectors of the economy.
"The task of these clusters is to transfer to an innovative model of
development, which should be accompanied by new forms of management.
" The formation of industrial clusters in the Ivanovo, Vologda,
Kostroma and Yaroslavl regions should provide modern
engineering-technical, transport and social infrastructure for textile
production.
"Of special significance is the restoration of flax production," the
president underlined, noting that whereas Russia's share on the world flax
market earlier stood at 50 to 60 percent, it now only reaches 14 percent.
China's share is 60 percent at present.
Dmitry Medvedev stated the necessity to protect domestic products from
illegally imported textile products. "Our textile industry workers are
practically unable to compete with contraband," the president stated.
As of now, contraband accounts for some 50 percent of the domestic
market of textile goods, or higher.
One should not forget that these goods are often of inferior quality,
dangerous for users. "We have to put an end to "black" and "gray'
imports," he concluded.
Earlier, Ivanovo's textile producers called upon the government to
cancel customs taxes on imported equipment for the light industry and step
up the fight against contraband from Turkey and China.
The director-general of Novaya Ivanovskaya Manufaktura, Valery
Yermilov, told reporters that imported fabrics were sold in Russia 15-20
percent below a price they would cost in case of their legal delivery to
Russia.
"It means that the fabrics are contraband. The entry control is
needed," he said.
As for textile products from China, Yermilov said the use of them was
dangerous to health.
"Eighty percent of Chinese goods are synthetics or semi-synthetics, in
the dyes of which formaldehyde is used. We do not use it," he stressed.
Yermilov said programs of support of the textile industry would help
fight the contraband.
According to the State Council's working group, Russian-made products
of the light industry only account for 23 percent of the domestic market.
Official imports account for 27 percent and smuggled products from China
and Turkey for 49 percent.
Experts reckon some 650 billion roubles are hidden from taxation.
Novaya Ivanovskaya Manufaktura, which was founded in 1840, is one of leading factories in the Russian textile industry.
The State Council discussed ways of upgrading the textile industry and
raising the standard of living and social protection of its employees.
"The state and the business community should focus on the competitive
niches available to us today, where we can be leaders," he stated.
"Such concentration of efforts will provide an opportunity for a quick
breakthrough in a number of fields; at any rate, it may create conditions
for a rapid breakthrough and we must make efforts towards integrating our
textile industry in the international labor division system," he said.
"The key task is a qualitative modernization of the industry. A
thorough overhaul of production is necessary, along with the launching of
state-of-the-art technologies and a dramatic increase in labor
productivity. We have to use the experience of foreign companies which
succeeded in turning their ageing production into modern and highly
effective one, over a relatively short period. I mean companies in China,
Hong Kong, Germany, Italy and Turkey.
"Practically all of them renewed the fleet of their looms in a
decade," Medvedev said.
"It is in the textile industry that the newest developments, including
nanotechnologies can be used, which our colleagues are doing," he
underlined.
"Stimuli for investments remain a strategic priority. Today, borrowing
is hampered by high interest rates on credits. It's an obvious thing,
they're ubiquitously high, but for the textile industry works they're
simply unaffordable," he went ton so say.
In addition, the industry has to apply the so-called "cluster
approach," which is already used in other sectors of the economy.
"The task of these clusters is to transfer to an innovative model of
development, which should be accompanied by new forms of management.
" The formation of industrial clusters in the Ivanovo, Vologda,
Kostroma and Yaroslavl regions should provide modern
engineering-technical, transport and social infrastructure for textile
production.
"Of special significance is the restoration of flax production," the
president underlined, noting that whereas Russia's share on the world flax
market earlier stood at 50 to 60 percent, it now only reaches 14 percent.
China's share is 60 percent at present.
Dmitry Medvedev stated the necessity to protect domestic products from
illegally imported textile products. "Our textile industry workers are
practically unable to compete with contraband," the president stated.
As of now, contraband accounts for some 50 percent of the domestic
market of textile goods, or higher.
One should not forget that these goods are often of inferior quality,
dangerous for users. "We have to put an end to "black" and "gray'
imports," he concluded.
Earlier, Ivanovo's textile producers called upon the government to
cancel customs taxes on imported equipment for the light industry and step
up the fight against contraband from Turkey and China.
The director-general of Novaya Ivanovskaya Manufaktura, Valery
Yermilov, told reporters that imported fabrics were sold in Russia 15-20
percent below a price they would cost in case of their legal delivery to
Russia.
"It means that the fabrics are contraband. The entry control is
needed," he said.
As for textile products from China, Yermilov said the use of them was
dangerous to health.
"Eighty percent of Chinese goods are synthetics or semi-synthetics, in
the dyes of which formaldehyde is used. We do not use it," he stressed.
Yermilov said programs of support of the textile industry would help
fight the contraband.
According to the State Council's working group, Russian-made products
of the light industry only account for 23 percent of the domestic market.
Official imports account for 27 percent and smuggled products from China
and Turkey for 49 percent.
Experts reckon some 650 billion roubles are hidden from taxation.
Novaya Ivanovskaya Manufaktura, which was founded in 1840, is one of leading factories in the Russian textile industry.
