Positive news in Russia? “Well, no, it can't be,” the average listener of Echo, a spectator of Rain, or a user of Meduza will say. Often on our website there are readers for whom any news with the mentioning of at least some positive in this or that Russian sphere immediately becomes a reason to accuse the authors and editors of “missing a paid publication”, or even “dubbing fakes . They say that in Russia, by definition, there can be nothing positive, except for a pole on a Chinese battery … Well, God bless him - in the end, everyone's business is how to perceive information and how to react to it.
In the meantime, certain segments of the population continue to believe that Russia is hovering somewhere between the Stone and Iron Ages, remarkable statistics have been published in terms of global industrial production. The statistics were compiled by experts in the field of industrial analysis under the auspices of the World Trade Organization. So, this statistics suggests that Russia has come to the 4th place in the world in terms of industrial production: from light industry products to metallurgy and high technology products. Rosstat confirms this statistics, providing data that in terms of industrial production, modern Russia has reached a level of more than 90 percent of the level of the RSFSR in 1991.
Of course, we can say that for more than 26 years we cannot catch up with ourselves the model of ourselves of the Soviet era, but here we must not forget about taking into account an important point: over the years of the existence of independent Russia, in fact, we had to redraw the entire system of not only production itself, but also contacts with suppliers and consumers. In the Soviet years, a well-functioning system was built in which everyone knew their niche perfectly and worked in this niche at the pace that the state regulation system allowed to do. Simplified - cotton for light industry - from Central Asia, grapes for fruit and vegetable processing - from Moldova, coal for metallurgy - from Donbass, etc. All this was collapsed in no time, and, as A. B. Chubais used to say, no matter how many factories need to be closed, if only it would benefit the break with the communist past.
Remember Chubais's: “Every sold plant is a nail in the lid of the communists' coffin. Expensive, cheap, free, with a surcharge - the twentieth question."
If suddenly someone has forgotten, then this "wonderful" speech, as they say, is the original:
It is interesting that today Mr. Chubais is in a position that is, as it were, aimed at opening new factories, production facilities and developing industry. And then one of two things: either Chubais made sure that he hammered all the nails into the lid, you heard what and who … or Mr. Chubais continues to hammer these nails at the Rusnano post …
In the meantime, Anatoly Borisovich “scores”, the Russian industry is trying to demonstrate growth under sanctions. Through all the bureaucratic obstacles and elements of unfair competition in foreign markets. As noted above, the Russian Federation has the 4th position in the world. Ahead: China, USA, India. Behind for the first half of 2017, for example, Germany and Japan.
Railway is one of the most actively growing sectors of production. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Alexander Morozov notes:
Railway engineering is actively developing. For seven months of this year, the production index (in relation to the same period last year) amounted to about 142%. The volume of the Russian market for railway engineering products in January-July 2017 amounted to more than 170 billion rubles, 9 billion of which accounted for net exports.
Growth for freight cars - 28.8% in 2016. The growth in gondola cars is 39.8%. Growth in the production of tanks - 27, 7%. Several companies involved in the railway production system showed an increase of over 95 percent by the end of 2016! The smallest growth in the industry - 9%.
The demand for freight cars indicates that there is a development of the transportation system and other industrial segments, including by no means only the extractive raw materials sector.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade notes the development of the regional component of industrial production in the country. So, in the first five months of this year, thanks to the measures of state support in the Tver region, the production of excavator equipment increased by 12.5%. At the same time, there is an active introduction of new generation environmental standards for engines used in road-building equipment of Russian manufacturers. It's about the STAGE IIIA level.
The Ryazan tannery became the real leaders of the industry, which in the late 90s (apparently, according to the behests of Chubais's associates) was close to complete collapse. The Ryazan enterprise of light industry in the field of leather production ranks first in Russia and is now one of the largest industrial enterprises in Europe. It accounts for 35% of the leather production in the Russian Federation. This is 720 thousand square meters. meters of leather monthly. The plant has 400 customer organizations worldwide.
The volume of electricity generation is growing. At the end of last year, generation increased by 2.1 percent, reaching 1,071.7 billion kWh. Electricity consumption also increased by 1.8%. At the end of the first half of 2017, the equivalent annual growth was already more than 3% with an increase in consumer activity by 2.5%. This is ahead of the forecasts.
Growth is noted in steel smelting. In 2016, the country produced 0.3% more steel than in 2015. For the first half of the year in annual terms, growth by another 0.4%. If in 2016 the production of pig iron fell by about 1%, then this year - a transition to growth.
Food production is growing. Its growth did not go unnoticed in the West either. So, in the Bloomberg View magazine there was an article by the columnist Leonid Bershidsky, in which he called Russia an emerging superpower in the field of food supply. The author notes that from July 2016 to June 2017, Russia exported 27.8 million tons of wheat, which is more than the EU countries combined. Bershidsky writes that, according to the US Ministry of Agriculture, from July 2017 to June 2018, Russia will increase wheat exports to 31.5 million tons. The Bloomberg observer reminds that Russia is also among the leaders in the export of corn, oats and barley. Against the background of an annual growth of grain consumption by 1.4% until 2021, Russia has a chance to occupy an even larger percentage of the world grain market.
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Alexander Tkachev, Russia's agriculture minister, has repeatedly stated that he sees grain, which ultimately displaces oil, as the country's largest source of export earnings. Tkachev's prophecy may be more realistic for a number of reasons.
One of the reasons Bershidsky says is global warming, which will allow Russia to increase its acreage and crop yields.
Of course, Russia has a huge suitcase of problems, including a number of areas in the same industrial production, where not everything is going smoothly. However, against this background, one cannot but state the successes that are being demonstrated in the sphere of domestic industry as a whole. Of course, you can't get into euphoria either. Yes, no one, it seems, is going to. But it makes sense to think about where Russia has every chance of increasing industrial turnover.
