The 7th
Eastern Economic Forum has concluded. The Forum aimed to promote the
accelerated development of the Far East economy and broaden international
cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. With the major challenges that Russia
is facing from sanctions, the macro-region’s importance is growing rapidly. In
his welcoming address to the Forum’s guests, Russian President Vladimir Putin
noted: “The Forum is making a significant contribution to building business
ties between Russia and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. There is
already a trend of the Asia-Pacific region becoming a centre of world economic
activity, along with the gradual extinction of industrial centres in Europe and
the United States.”
Per tradition, the Forum’s venues are used to come up
with new development tools, present breakthrough technologies, sign landmark
investment contracts, and adopt key decisions for Russia’s development. This
year was no exception. On the sidelines of the EEF, Putin launched three new
production facilities in the Far East, including the Alexander Deyev CNF11CPD
cargo and passenger car-rail ferry in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the Komandor fish
processing plant in Kamchatka, and the Zabaikalsk-Manchuria grain railway
terminal in the Transbaikal Territory.
An interactive presentation was held at the EEF for
the Russian president about the results of the development of the Far East via
videoconferencing with residents of advanced special economic zones.
Summing up the results of the Forum, Russian Deputy
Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian President in
the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev said: “Above all else, the 7th
Eastern Economic Forum, like the previous one, is a step forward in the
development of the Far East. A step not only in terms of the number of guests
or the number and scope of agreements, although these figures are impressive.
This is the first post-COVID forum that was attended by more than 7,000 guests.
Despite the sanctions and external pressure, the Far East continues to develop and
it cannot be stopped with sanctions and external restrictions. Today, 2,729
investment projects are being implemented in the Far East, and 525 of them have
already been put into operation. The macro-region’s economy has received around
RUB 2.7 trillion in investments, more than 100,000 jobs have been created, and
now more than 290 agreements have been signed at the Forum for a total of RUB 3.27
trillion, which is also a record. But that’s not the only thing. The Forum was established
as a platform for dialogue with business and to obtain feedback from
entrepreneurs and society about the most pressing issues in the development of
the Far East. This year, more than a hundred events were held as part of the
Forum, and their key results were reported to the president. He supported most
of the decisions made at the sessions, which means that all the prerequisites are
in place for the Far East to develop faster.”
Participants
The EEF 2022 confirmed that there are still plenty of
countries around the world that continue to expand their business ties with
Russia. The Forum was attended by more than 7,000 participants and media
representatives from 68 countries and territories, including Russia, with
around 1,700 business representatives from 700 companies.
The largest foreign delegations consisted of
representatives from China, Myanmar, Mongolia, India, Armenia, and South Korea.
For the first time, representatives of such countries
as Algeria, Ghana, the Dominican Republic, the Donetsk People’s Republic,
Zambia, Cameroon, Liberia, and Uganda took part in the Forum.
The Forum was attended by 15 high-ranking foreign
officials, including: Myanmar Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing; Chairman of the
Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China Li Zhanshu; Armenian
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan; Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain
Oyun-Erdene, Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, and others.
Eleven heads of diplomatic corps also took part in the
Forum.
More than 50 Russian officials attended the Forum:
three members of the Russian government, the prosecutor general, the heads of
18 ministries and agencies, and 26 regional leaders, among others.
Plenary session
The key event of the Forum was the plenary session,
which was attended by: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chairman of the State
Administrative Council, Prime Minister of the Provisional Government, and
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing, Armenian
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain
Oyun-Erdene, and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s
Congress of China Li Zhanshu.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Malaysian Prime
Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, and Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh
delivered video greetings to the participants.
In his speech, Putin, commenting on the current
situation around the world, said: “Irreversible, one might even say, tectonic
changes have recently taken place in the entire system of international
relations. The role of dynamic, promising states and regions of the world, and
above all, of course, the Asia-Pacific region, has grown significantly. Its
countries have become new centres of economic and technological growth and
points of attraction for human resources, capital, and industries.”
The speeches delivered by the Forum’s guests,
including the heads of state and governments of Asian countries, confirmed
their intention to develop cooperation with Russia in various sectors,
including in such pressing matters as improving the business climate in the
realities of today’s political and economic challenges.
Business programme
The Forum’s main theme is also connected with Russia’s
foreign policy agenda: ‘The Path to a Multipolar World’. Over the four
days of the Forum, experts, politicians, and businessmen discussed the
ramifications of the shift in the centre of economic development and forces
towards the Asia-Pacific region, as well as Russia’s potential. Most of the
guests underscored the importance of this theme.
Over 100 events were held as part of the main
programme, including more than 70 at thematic venues. More than 750 speakers
and moderators took part in the events, which were held in the format of
sessions, business dialogues, and roundtables.
The business programme’s discussions focused on six
pillars, including the economy, banking, the logistics market, international
relations, and the development of education, healthcare, and patriotic
education.
At the sessions of the first pillar ‘Russia’s Place in
the World: Diamonds Are Made under Pressure’, the participants shared their views on the current
state and future of international relations and the development of the economy,
investment, industry, and other spheres of life in Russia. The speakers noted
that in the new architecture of international relations, the Far East is the
gateway to a new multipolar world in which winning the battle for technological
development is crucial. To achieve this, tools need to be created and developed
to ensure the global competitiveness of the Far East and economic wars need to
be abandoned as a tool for suppressing state sovereignty in favour of economic
cooperation in a new era with Asia-Pacific countries (China, India, Vietnam,
and Mongolia, among others). Strong business means a strong Russia and a worthy
place in international markets.
The second pillar ‘The Global Division of Labour:
From Old Connections to New’ featured discussions about the future of
individual sectors of the Russian economy and not only emphasized the
priorities for the development of the Far East and its current problems, but
also the scale of the strategic tasks that the country faces as the new
architecture of the world order emerges.
The sessions of the third pillar ‘Financial
Markets: What Holds Value When There Is a Loss of Confidence?’ focused on
searching for effective solutions in the banking sector, the development of
digital finance, the creation of anti-crisis portfolios to ensure the stability
of the regional budgets of the Far East, and the balance of world currencies in
the new realities. The initial results were summarized and the prospects for
the Far Eastern concession were outlined.
One of the key
focuses of the Forum’s business programme, which encompassed education,
healthcare, sports, and culture, was the discussion of the fourth pillar
‘Creating a New Quality of Life for People’. The speakers stated that
human resources are the main capital of the Far East and that their potential
must be developed. To achieve this, there needs to be a quantum leap in
education, including the training of personnel for all sectors of the economy.
A new strategy also needs to be introduced for the development of Far Eastern
cities and territories based on the key principle of ensuring a high living
standard for the population of the Far East in terms of education, medicine,
sports, culture, and the preservation of traditions. As part of this thematic
pillar, the Roscongress Foundation’s Healthy Life project organized a series of
discussions on key issues in the healthcare industry. Experts discussed such issues
as ensuring drug security in the Far East, developing medical science and
technology, preventive medicine, anti-age medicine, disease prevention, and the
promotion of healthy lifestyle principles as part of the Health and Beauty
session.
One of the main themes of the fourth pillar was tourism.
“The tourism appeal of the region can already be seen in certain ongoing and
planned investment projects. Vladivostok could become Russia’s international
tourist gateway to the Asia-Pacific region. Let foreign tourists come and bring
their relatives and friends,” Adviser to the Russian President and Executive
Secretary of the EEF 2022 Organizing Committee Anton Kobyakov said.
The fifth pillar ‘Everyone Has Their Own Route: The
Logistics of a Changed World’ was dedicated to logistics and featured discussions
on the development of the Baikal-Amur Mainline and Trans-Siberian Railway, a
new supply system to ensure deliveries to northern Russia, the Northern
Shipping Route, and the development of airport infrastructure to ensure the air
transport accessibility of the Far East and Arctic.
The discussions of the sixth pillar ‘Patriotism over
Tolerance’ brought together creative and talented young people. The
speakers looked at such issues as educating Russian patriots in new schools of
the future, outlined anti-crisis guidelines for training professional staff and
mastering new skills for the future economy, as well as effective support for
networking, leadership projects, innovations, and teacher initiatives.
Considering that the Asia-Pacific region is one of the
strategically important areas where there is potential for growing partnerships
in the current situation, bilateral business dialogues with some of Russia’s
key partner countries occupied a special place in the EEF 2022 business
programme: Russia – India,
Russia – Vietnam,
and Russia – ASEAN.
Discussions about cooperation with China were held as part of a meeting of the
Business Council for the Development of the Russian Far East and the
Northeastern Provinces of China.
During the Valdai International Club’s session
‘Gateway to a Multipolar World. The Far East in the New Architecture of
International Relations’, experts offered an assessment of the changes that are
taking place in the global economy and geopolitics and concluded that the Far
East should become a universal hub for collaboration with international
partners in the Asia-Pacific region in the next decade.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary
Representative of the Russian President in the Far Eastern Federal District
Yury Trutnev said the Far East’s importance has definitely increased. The
export flows that have fully turned towards the east have created both new
challenges and new opportunities. New challenges involve the need for the
better development of transport routes, the Eastern railway operating domain,
and the Northern Sea Route. The new opportunities mean work needs to be
intensified with friendly countries, especially in the development of
technologies, he said.
Events as part of Russia’s chairmanship of the Arctic
Council
The EEF hosted four events as part of Russia’s
chairmanship of the Arctic Council in 2021–2023,
including:
• Conference on Investment and Trade in
the Arctic
• Meeting of the Arctic Economic
Council
• Conference ‘Creating a Healthy
Society in the Far East and Arctic’
• Creative Business Forum
‘Sociocultural Development of the Northern Regions’, which included the ‘Soul of Russia. The North’ Festival of
Audiovisual Culture and the ‘Soul of Russia. The North’ Youth Multimedia and
Discussion Campus.
Another part of the chairmanship was the House of
Indigenous Peoples pavilion at the Far East Street exhibition, which became a
platform for Arctic-themed business events and agreement signing ceremonies.
On the Forum’s sidelines
The 2nd International Tiger Forum
was held on the opening day of the EEF 2022. This landmark event was attended
by over 2,000 participants from Russia and 44 foreign states and territories.
At the 11th APEC International
Conference on Cooperation in Higher Education on 6 September, experts
discussed higher education, science, and collaborative research as the main
driving forces for the region’s socioeconomic progress. Russian Deputy Minister
of Science and Higher Education Natalya Bocharova spoke about key educational
projects that are being implemented in Russia, above all including the
‘Priority 2030’ academic strategic leadership programme and the ‘Startup as a
Diploma’ project.
Participants in the Eurasian Women’s Forum session ‘BRICS+
Women Leaders Join Efforts to Promote a Fair World and Sustainable Development’
discussed the work of the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance as well as key items on
the agenda of the Eurasian Women’s Forum.
The following
partner events were also held as part of the EEF 2022 business
programme:
· Infrastructure
as a Growth Driver: China’s Experience
· Building
a Socially Oriented Economy in a Partnership between Women of the W20, APEC,
and BRICS
· Prospects
for Russian Information Security Solutions on the International Market
The ‘Teaching
History in the East’ International Scientific and Practical Conference was
attended by Russian teachers and historians as well as representatives of eight
foreign countries. During the plenary session, they held seven country-based subsections
(China, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, India, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia,
Pakistan, Thailand, and Japan) and a special section. Per tradition, the
historical conference also featured a historical and documentary exhibition.
Agreements
A record number of investment agreements, as well as
memorandums and agreements of intent, were signed at the Forum. In total,
296 agreements were signed for a grand total of RUB 3.272 trillion,
including agreements on infrastructure and transport projects, the development
of large mineral deposits, as well as construction, industry, and agriculture.
The pacts include: agreements on the development of the Kularsky gold-bearing
region, the Kyuchus gold deposit, the Ruchey Tirekhtyakh tin deposit, and the
Deputatsky tin deposit in the Ust-Yansky and Verkhoyansky Districts of Yakutia;
agreements on master plans for the cities of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,
Ulan-Ude, and Magadan; agreements on the integrated development of a mining
cluster in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); and a project to build the city of
Sputnik in the Nadezhdinsky District.
Most agreements
by industry:
1. Socioeconomic development of regions – 80.
2. Education and science – 35.
3. Transport and logistics – 33.
4. Industry and construction – 29.
5. Investment and banking – 17.
6. High technologies and telecommunications –
16.
7. Environment and nature protection – 15.
8. International cooperation – 15.
Leaders among the
Russian regions by the amount of agreements signed:
1. Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) – more than 30
agreements worth RUB 338 billion
2. Transbaikal Territory – 10 agreements worth
RUB 148 billion
3. Sakhalin Region – 9 agreements worth RUB
117 billion
4. Primorsky Region – 24 agreements worth RUB
100 billion
5. Kamchatka Territory – 6 agreements worth
RUB 58 billion
6. Magadan Region – 5 agreements worth RUB 45
billion
7. Republic of Buryatia – 9 agreements worth
RUB 44 billion
8. Republic of Khakassia – 8 agreements worth
RUB 30 billion
9. Amur Region – 13 agreements worth RUB 24
billion.
EEF JUNIOR
For the second time, the EEF included a special youth
section called ‘EEF Junior’, one of the key regular events of the Point Junior
project that the Content Foundation is implementing with the support of the
Roscongress Foundation and the Innopraktika non-governmental development
institute. The section participants, which included 58 high school students
from 19 regions of Russia who work on design and inventive activities, took
part in 10 events of the business programme in the format of design
laboratories, open and panel discussions, head-to-head dialogues, and quizzes. In
addition, the Forum’s young experts were actively involved in events of the EEF
sports programme, including the Vladivostok Run charity race as well as chess
and table tennis tournaments, and visited the Primorsky Aquarium and the ‘Far
East Street’ exhibition.
Youth EEF
The Youth EEF was
a special event in the Forum’s programme. Young business representatives,
scientists, specialists, and students got together to discuss ways to develop
tools to support youth entrepreneurship, technological developments, social
media, the future of the financial market, business education, and careers. Graduates
of the ‘Startup as a Diploma’ programme in 2022 held a presentation of start-up
projects in the format of a pitch session. A presentation was also held for ‘Opportunity
Navigator’ (an analogue to Russia’s State Services service, but only for young
people). The Forum included 25 events in various formats.
Exhibitions
Per tradition, the Forum kicked off with the opening
of the ‘Far East Street’ exhibition on the embankment of Ajax Bay on
Russky Island. Exhibitors included 11 regions of the Far Eastern Federal
District, which presented their achievements, ongoing investment projects, the
diversity of lifestyles of the peoples of the Far East, and special regional
features. Visitors viewed interactive layouts, modern touch screens with content
management, and virtual reality equipment. The exhibition particularly emphasized
opportunities for import substitution, the technological independence of the
Far East regions, and their self-sufficiency in food products.
This year marked the first time that the exhibition
featured special zones, where the following business programme events were
held: the Youth Multimedia Creative Campus, which hosted discussions on
creative industries; the Russian Ministry of Sports pavilion, where the
development of elite and mass sports was discussed; the House of Indigenous Peoples,
which hosted numerous events, including the Creative Industries Forum, as well
as various workshops, roundtables, and exhibitions.
The campus of Far East Federal University, which
served as the central venue of the Forum, hosted several exhibition areas for the
Forum’s participants and guests. The multimedia exposition of the Far East and
Arctic Development Corporation and the Ministry for the Development of the Russian
Far East and the Arctic became one of the largest at the EEF both in terms of its
area and the number of services and events presented.
Key departments of the Ministry of Natural Resources
and Environment, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Transport,
the Ministry of Education and Science, the Federal Service for Surveillance on
Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, the Federal Agency for Tourism,
the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Federal Medical-Biological Agency, the
Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre, and Cartography, and Roscartography
presented their expositions at the exhibition ‘Welcome to the Far East!’
to introduce the Forum’s guests and participants to the most important areas of
their work as well as their ongoing and future projects. The Federal Agency for
Fisheries organized the Russian Fish House chalet, where the Forum’s guests and
participants not only learned about the largest investment projects of fishing
and fish processing companies in the Far East region, but also tasted gourmet
seafood and fish dishes prepared by chefs from top restaurants in Moscow and
Vladivostok. The Ministry of Sports had two pavilions: ‘Sport – a Vital Norm’
and ‘GTO Arena’, which hosted the ‘GTO Games 2022’ Open International Cup of
the Far East for the first time.
A number of pavilions on the Far East Street made their
debut this year, including: the Tiger House interactive pavilion timed to
coincide with the 2nd International Tiger Forum; the ‘Developing the Far
East!’ pavilion (Far East and Arctic Development Corporation and the Ministry
for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic) with a large
multimedia exposition and modules on the themes Subsoil Resources, Land,
Forest, and Water; the House of Indigenous Peoples; and a three-star hotel from
the corporation Tourism.RF.
Thematic
sites
Governors’ Club
More than 30 meetings were
held at the Governors’ Club at the EEF 2022, which were attended by the leaders
of Russia’s regions, members of the government, and official representatives of
foreign states. On 6 September, the Governors’ Club hosted the meeting
‘Discovering the Far East 2.0: Rethinking the Spatial Development Strategy’,
while a meeting of young foreign entrepreneurs was held as part of the
Roscongress Foundation’s Friends for Leadership project.
International Centre for Joint Initiatives and the
Roscongress Club
The International Centre for Joint Initiatives (ICJI),
a new project of the Roscongress Foundation that focuses on the development of
global business relations, debuted at the Roscongress Club during the EEF 2022.
Over three days, 14 agreements were signed at the ICJI with the Russian-Chinese
Business Council, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade of
Beijing, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade of Henan
Province, ChinaStroy, Sany, SNFS, and other companies from Russia and China.
The Roscongress Club hosted over 50 guests at the session
‘Russia – China: Trade Cannot be Stopped, Where Shall We Put the
Comma?’ Speakers included the heads of major Chinese technology companies and
representatives of Russian business who are interested in import substitution
issues.
The ICJI also co-organized a Valdai Club event at the
Roscongress Club, at which the report ‘Russia – China
Strategic Partnership in the Context of the Crisis in Europe’ was presented.
Innovation Space
Seven events took
place at the Roscongress Foundation’s Innovation Space, which focuses on the
development of technological entrepreneurship in Russia. The events included:
scientific battles among residents of the Skolkovo Foundation as well as the Russky
and Yakutia technoparks, and a pitch session of projects by participants in the
Innovation Space. The investment community heard presentations from more than
20 different startups that are already actively developing or have good
prospects to be established in the Far East. More details about many of them were
presented at a special exhibition in the Innovation Space.
The session ‘Top Investment
Projects of the Investinregions.ru Portal’ also took place (the portal is a
joint project of the Roscongress Foundation and the Fund RC-Investments and is
supported by the Ministry of Economic Development). The Forum participants learned
about seven important and well-developed investment projects in tourism, car
leasing, construction, winemaking, and fuel card processing.
Friends
for Leadership
Representatives of the Friends for Leadership
international community of leaders and entrepreneurs from more than 20
countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe also attended the EEF 2022.
The participants held their own project sessions and high-level meetings,
including among leaders from several regions of Russia. On 8 September, the Friends
for Leadership community organized the eco-volunteer ‘Clean Games’ in Truda Bay
on Russky Island, where teams of foreign and Russian participants competed to
see who could collect garbage in the bay the fastest.
VinoGrad
The EEF 2022 also featured
the VinoGrad thematic platform dedicated to viticulture and winemaking. Events
were held in the format of master classes as well as open tastings by the
platform’s partners. Visitors were able to learn about the history and products
of leading Russian wineries. The venue was co-organized by the Roscongress
Foundation and Rosselkhozbank.
Creative Business Forum
The Creative Business Forum held 15 events at the
House of Indigenous Peoples and the ‘Soul of Russia. The North’ Youth
Multimedia Discussion Creative Campus. Participants in the events, including
representatives of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North,
discussed specific ways to develop northern cities, industrial Arctic design,
traditions of Indigenous peoples, tourism, as well as the impact of technology
on life in the North. A public talk was held by Bogdan Bulychev, a well-known traveller,
video blogger, and member of the Russian Geographical Society and the
Association of Polar Explorers, who set more than ten world records. Another
event was the ‘Shoot a Movie’ project, which involved movies being shot based
on the famous film Love and Doves with the participation of young people
from the FEFU campus. The Forum hosted workshops on making designer items and
handicrafts.
Innovations at the Forum
On the last day of the Forum, Russian Deputy Prime
Minister and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian President in the Far
Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev launched the ‘Far East – Land of
Adventure’ tourism promotion competition, which will be held throughout the
year to encompass all four seasons. “Everyone who applied on the website can
travel, just be careful and attentive,” Trutnev said, noting that special
attention will be paid to routes that recreate the journeys of the pioneers and
discoverers of the Far Eastern territories.
Sports programme
The sports and entertainment programme of the 7th
Eastern Economic Forum was held under the Vladivostok Open brand and featured
events in 12 sports: boxing, rowing, chess, sailing, table tennis,
mas-wrestling, stand-up paddleboarding, equestrian sports, e-sports, and
skateboarding, among others. Olympic champion Liliya Akhaimova, prize-winners
at the Tokyo 2020 Games Zhang Liang (China), Anna Prakaten, and Muslim
Gadzhimagomedov, world chess champion Sergey Karjakin, and other famous
athletes took part in the events of the EEF 2022.
Athletes travelled to Vladivostok from 23 countries:
China, Mongolia, India, Thailand, Slovakia, and Hungary, among others. For the
Russian national boxing and rowing teams, the tournaments held at the EEF 2022 marked
their first battles with prominent foreign rivals since sanctions were imposed
on Russian sports. “There are plans to build four federal training centres for
Russian national teams on the territory of the Far Eastern Federal District,”
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said at the session ‘Sport in the Far
East: Creating New Opportunities’.
Seven winners of the 2022 World Championship from five
countries took part in the international mas-wrestling tournament. The
Vladivostok Open also featured the debut tournament of the international SUP
Surf League.
A world record was set at the GTO Arena pavilion, when
Viktor Filipov did 78 pull-ups in one minute. The national team of the Sakhalin
Region won the debut ‘GTO Games. Far East Cup’. The first street skateboarding
championship of the Far Eastern Federal District was held at a new skate park
that opened as part of the Forum.
EEF 2022 participants ran a 5 km race in support of
the Amur tiger and took part in table tennis and chess tournaments. Partners of
the sports programme events included Norilsk Nickel, Russian Railways, and the
Russian Boxing Federation. The Vladivostok Open was organized by RC-Sport, the
sports platform of the Roscongress Foundation.
Cultural programme
The Vladivostok Seasons Cultural Festival was held
during the Forum and featured leading Russian cultural institutions,
performers, and creative teams. Concerts and special exhibitions on the theme
of the Far East and Arctic exploration took place on the Primorsky Stage at the
Mariinsky Theatre and on the city’s central square.
For the first time, Vladivostok hosted a charity
concert in support of the Amur Tiger Centre featuring virtuoso pianist Denis
Matsuev. The soloist and the Russian Youth Orchestra performed the works of
Sergei Rachmaninoff, whose 150th anniversary will be celebrated in
2023.
Opera singer Ildar Abdrazakov also shone on the
Primorsky Stage with a solo concert on 7 September. He also took part in the opera
Boris Godunov. The concerts were attended by about 2,000 spectators.
The city’s top museums
organized the following expositions specially for the Eastern Economic Forum:
‘The Treasure-Trove of Yakutia. Yakutsk – Vladivostok 2022’ at the Primorsky
State Art Gallery, ‘Journey to the East. Prisons of Siberia’ at Arseniev
Museum, and other equally interesting exhibitions. During the Forum, some 350
people visited these expositions.
The Vladivostok
Seasons Cultural Festival also featured an exhibition of the Golden Turtle
International Festival at the ‘Russia – My History’ Museum, which was attended
by about 200 people.
Expert and analytical support for the EEF 2022
The Roscongress
Foundation’s Information and Analytical System continued to develop the Summary
service, which provides brief analytical summaries of discussions with a description
of the conclusions, problems, and solutions addressed during the discussions.
Roughly 100 analytical summaries were issued upon conclusion of the EEF 2022.
The report ‘Recap of
the Eastern Economic Forum 2022’ has been prepared and will be available
electronically on the event’s official website forumvostok.ru and on the website of
the Roscongress Foundation’s Information and Analytical System
roscongress.org.
Quotes from key
speakers at the EEF 2022 have been prepared, as well as infographic slides
detailing key parameters of the EEF 2022.
Expert and analytical
support for the Forum was provided by leading experts from FEFU, the National
Research University Higher School of Economics, and the NTI Competence Centre
with a focus on ‘Big Data Storage and Analysis Technologies’ based at Lomonosov
Moscow State University, among others.
Experts from the
Roscongress Foundation prepared a digest of analytical materials on the most
important comprehensive studies on the Forum’s agenda.
The Roscongress
Foundation, along with its analytical partners, prepared exclusive materials
specially for the Forum about key issues on the event’s agenda:
The report ‘Trade
Relations between Russia and China: Growth Potential’ analyses the current
state of Russian-Chinese trade and prospects for its further development. The
report was prepared as part of expert and analytical cooperation between the
ITI Research Centre and the Roscongress Foundation.
The report ‘Horizons
for the Urbanization of the Far East’, which was prepared by the NTI
Competence Centre with a focus on ‘Big Data Storage and Analysis Technologies’
based at Lomonosov Moscow State University, with the support of the Roscongress
Foundation, is dedicated to the spatial development of the Far East as regards
its agglomerations and cities.
The joint report of
the Roscongress Foundation and All-Russian Public Opinion Research Centre
(VTsIOM) ‘Eastern Vector: A New Path for Russians. The Importance of the
East for the Russian People in the Context of the New Realities’ presents
the results of a sociological survey of the adult population of Russia on their
attitude towards the idea of cooperation with countries of the East in the
new realities.
All the reports are available
in the Information and Analytical System ROSCONGRESS.ORG.
As part of the EEF
2022, the Roscongress Foundation and VTsIOM conducted a survey to determine the
perception of the Forum by its participants. In particular, the participants
shared their opinion about the situation around the world from a geopolitical point
of view (correlation of the poles of influence): 44% of the participants
believe that the world is moving towards multipolarity, while 30% think that
the world is already multipolar. The participants also offered an assessment of
relations between Russia and China in which 41% of them said they consider
relations between the two countries to be friendly. The participants noted
potential facilities that could attract tourists to the Far East, citing hotels
(57%), parks and recreation areas (44%), and airports and railway stations
(30%). They also pointed out areas that require priority attention and government
funding in the Far East and the Arctic, namely education (31%), transport and
transport infrastructure (30%), digital technologies (25%), tourism (23%), and healthcare
and sports (20%).
Forum partners
Title partners:
Bamtonnelstroy-Most
Group and VEB.RF State Development Corporation
General
sponsor – VTB Bank
General
partners – Gazprom and RusHydro
Strategic
partner – Rosseti
Official
air carrier – Aeroflot
Official partners of the Forum: Gazprombank, Delo
Group, FESCO Transport Group, Russian Railways, Rosatom State Atomic Energy
Corporation, Sberbank, Udokan Copper, and the 1520 Group.
Information partners:
Russia 24 Information Channel, RBC, NTV Television Channel, Izvestia Multimedia Information Centre, Russia Today Television Channel, Rambler & Co, Business FM Radio Station, TASS News Agency, RIA Novosti, Sputnik International News Agency and Radio, Interfax, Kommersant Publishing House, Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Argumenty i Fakty Newspaper, Vedomosti Newspaper, Expert Magazine, 1MI Holding, Federal Press, Federal News Agency, East Russia News Agency, Voice of Vietnam Radio, Vietnam News Agency, Argumenty i Fakty. Primorye, Primorye Public Television, Konkurent Newspaper, PrimaMedia Online News Outlet, Leader Information Agency – Argumenty i Fakty – Dalinform, LIVE DV Media Holding, Birobidzhan Publishing House, Gubernskie Vedomosti Publishing House: Gubernskie Vedomosti Newspaper, the website skr.su, OTV Television Company, Chukotka News Agency, and Window in the Asia-Pacific Region Magazine.
