MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. The development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) and its backbone cities will be on agenda of the 9th international conference Far East and Arctic - 2024, due at the Russia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry on March 5-6, the event's organizers told TASS.
"The development the Northern Sea Route's backbone cities is of enormous economic and social importance: they will lead the economic growth, because there housing, social, transport and industrial infrastructures will be built intensively. The backbone cities' development will stop the population outflow to other regions and will stimulate other people to come to the Russian Arctic, where their work will bring our northern and Far Eastern regions to leading positions," the organizers quoted Tamara Mordasova of the Far East and the Arctic Sustainable Development Partnership as saying.
The conference will focus on the social and economic development of the Far Eastern and Arctic regions, on conditions to attract investments and to stimulate businesses, on energy and environmental safety, on transport infrastructure development strategies, on technological and design solutions in mining and processing of minerals.
"The conference participants will discuss the innovative development of the Far Eastern and northern regions by the economy's digitalization, by the active use of latest domestic technologies in construction, by the use of off-road vehicles of high load capacities, small aircraft, radio electronics, by improvement of the healthcare system, and other areas," the organizers added.
In the coming year, the event will be held in a new format: it will continue the tradition of the Arctic: Sustainable Development conferences, which have taken place for eight years, and will also cover issues related to the development of the Far East. The Sustainable Development of the Far East and the Arctic Partnership is the event's organizer. TASS will be the general information partner.