Chinese company “CGGC International” is interested in getting orders in Tatarstan
10 November 2008, Monday
Rustam Minnikhanov met with Mr. Azif Ayaz, the Head of Arabic Trade Center (Kuwait) and representatives of “CGGC International” company (China). Also Ildus Faskhutdinov, RT Minister of Transport and Road Service, Rauzil Khaziev, RT Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing, Valery Sorokin, General Director of “Svyazinvestneftehim” JSC and others were at the meeting.
Vice President of “CGGC International” (China Gezhouba (Group) Corporation) presented the possibilities of this large Chinese construction company.
The specialization of the company is construction of hydropower stations, power lines, bridges and multilevel road interchanges, residential settlements. The company is among 150 large enterprises in China which are supported by the government, also in the sphere of projects realization in international markets.
In 2007 “CGGC International” signed international contracts for the sum of $ 3.5 billion, in 2008 – for $ 2 billion. The company has experience in construction of large projects in 30 countries all over the world.
Rustam Minnikhanov told about realization of such projects as the Complex of petrochemical and oil-refining plants (Nizhnekamsk, “TANEKO” JSC project), construction of the complex for production of ammonia, methanol and granulated carbamide (Mendeleevsk, “AMMONY” JSC, total cost of the project is $ 1 billion).
Moreover, the great construction has been started in connection with Universiade-2013 in Kazan, road interchanges are being modernized.
On 9 May at a ceremony of honoring the memory of Soviet Soldiers who fought in the WWII, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Chief of Staff of the regional Cabinet of Ministers Shamil Gafarov, WWII veterans and representatives of the public patriotic and youth organizations laid flowers to graves of the fallen.
On 3 April, speaking at a ceremony of awarding winners of the competition “The Cultural Capital of Tatarstan” held in the Government House of the republic, the regional Minister of Culture Irada Ayupova said the competition has become one of the landmarks in the cultural life of the republic in 2024.
On 3 May, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the First Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Damir Shaydullin reported that 1m 570 thousand square meters of housing has been commissioned in Tatarstan by 3 May which makes 48 per cent of the planned including six houses by the social mortgage programme.
On 29 April, speaking at a briefing in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan Minister of Transport and Road Economy Farit Khanifov informed that it is planned to allocate more than 79.2bn rubles on road work in the republic in 2025.