"NEW GREAT CONSTRUCTION" PROGRAM TO BE INTENSIFIED

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ The cabinet on Wednesday discussed and then approved an activity plan for implementing the "New great construction" middle-term targeted program.
In accordance with the plan, great works are ahead. The Premier S.Batbold has ordered the Ministers to finish a preparation for the works by March of 2011 and control over the monthly meetings of a related working group.
In a scope of the "New great construction" program, the cabinet has put some goals--to increase constructions for urban development and planning, infrastructure, to support education, rural development and industry, and to ease a migration within the country. The cabinet also wants to prepare national specialists, engineering and technical workers, and to attract the Mongolian specialists who are working abroad, to realize the projects of new construction. Moreover, the cabinet will support supply of apartments, attract investments to engineering and infrastructure, and will create an opportunity to ensure the equal participation of private sector.
The metallurgical factory in Darkhan city will be renovated so as to make it produce 500 thousand tons of steel a year, and a technology will be introduced for smelting and sorting iron.
The city's Mayor and governors of aimags have been tasked with determining locations for apartment micro-districts, roads, bridges, engineering lines and other constructions reflected in the program. With aims to introduce the latest progressive techniques and technologies and to create national enterprisers having professional and skilled staffers, comprehensive support will be rendered to domestic entities in the great construction.
B.Khuder