Mechanical engineering and industrialization: tasks, projects, prospects
“In a short, in historical terms, a serious machine-building complex has been formed in Kazakhstan. According to experts from the Union of Machine Builders of Kazakhstan, the share of machine building in the structure of the country’s manufacturing industry is 14%, in the share of the entire industry – 7%, “the press service of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan reports.
Mechanical engineering received a serious impetus to the development during the period of industrialization programs.
What is done
The first five-year plan became an important anti-crisis program and covered all sectors of the economy. The main task that was set at that time: not to lose the already accumulated capacities and to link the country’s industry into a single network.At this time, the necessary transport, energy and industrial infrastructure was actively created for the development of production and business.
“Mechanical engineering is the number one market in Kazakhstan. If our import of all goods in the country is more than 35.4 billion US dollars, then almost half of this volume (48.9%) is the import of mechanical engineering products – 17.3 billion US dollars, ”says the head of the Sectoral Development Directorate of “QazIndustry”JSC Kazakhstan center of industry and export Asset Adakhayev.
The machine-building industry produces products with high added value and ensures the stable operation of other sectors of the economy – the agro-industrial complex, energy and metallurgical sectors, transport and many others, therefore, its development was and is a priority for the government of the country. Along with the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, the industry is the most promising area for high-quality diversification of the economy. The creation of one job here entails the emergence of five to six jobs in related industries, therefore, the focus of state support primarily concerns this industry.
In the second five-year plan, state mechanisms were developed to support six priority sectors: automotive, oil and gas, mining and electrical equipment, agricultural and railway engineering. And the results were not long in coming.
According to QazIndustry, in the period from 2009 to 2020, the volume of production in monetary terms increased 6.4 times, reaching a record high of 1.8 trillion tenge. Over the years of industrialization, Kazakhstanis have learned to make new goods – electric locomotives, passenger cars, low-power tractors, trailers, balers, ventilation equipment, railway wheels, axles and other components for the railway industry, super-powerful transformers, the production of which is unique for the Central Asian market , modems and switching equipment and much, much more.
The Alageum Electric group of companies alone, for example, annually produces up to 300 names of new products, as demand grows, customer expectations and their requirements for equipment increase.
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