Vladivostok creates infrastructure to accommodate over 1 mln people.

VLADIVOSTOK, July 4 (Itar-Tass) - Vladivostok in Russia's Far East is
creating an infrastructure to comfortably accommodate up to 1.5 million
residents, the Primorsky Territory governor, Sergei Darkin, said at the
meeting of the 4th Pacific Economic Congress.
At present, 600,000 people reside in Vladivostok.
"The preparation for the Asia-Pacific Economic summit became an
instrument for such a huge amount of work," he said adding that 69
priority investment projects estimated at over $60 billion are being
implemented in the region.
"We develop cooperation with countries of the Asia-Pacific region not
only in traditional sectors of economy, but also in absolutely new areas
that the Primorsky territory has not had earlier and that exert influence
on the life of our neighbours," Darkin said.
Among such areas the governor named the oil and gas industry that will
become operational after the construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific
Ocean oil pipeline and the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipeline.
The Pacific Economic Congress began its work on July 2. Taking part in
the event are chief executive officers of industrial enterprises and
banks, scientists, politicians from the Far East, China, Switzerland,
Armenia, Japan, Peru, the United States, South Korea. They discuss cargo
shipment from the Asia-Pacific region to Europe through Russia's ports,
prospects of the Far Eastern Federal University and the creation of
high-tech centres in the Far East.