The state will support the Russian auto industry
As the director of the department of automotive industry and agricultural engineering of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Alexei Rakhmanov, noted, the question of whether the country is needed by the Russian auto industry, can be considered withdrawn. Still needed! Most measures to stabilize this grow, which were adopted by the government this year, worked.
One of the successfully developing adopted programs is the public procurement and a program of preferential lending. According to Rakhmanov, at the moment there are about 120,000 applications from individuals to credit the purchase of a new car. Accordingly, those measures that have begun to work now will be continued in 2010, and those that worked with insufficient result will be revised.
Rakhmanov also said that a document containing directions for the development of the domestic automobile industry until 2020 is being prepared on the part of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. This document will appear in mid -February and will be provided for approval by the Government of the Russian Federation.
“The main task is to increase the share of the auto industry in the country’s GDP to 2.2%,” he commented on.
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin said that state support of AvtoVAZ will be 75 billion rubles. Of this amount 25 billion. – This is an interest -free loan, the amount of 12 billion will be sent to the authorized capital of the plant. rubles and about 38 billion will take the reconstruction of the debt of the Russian auto giant. rubles.
