Mikhail Mishustin has distributed powers to implement national development goals among deputy prime ministers. Photo: Dmitry Astakhov/POOL/TASS
By November 1, 2024, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance must submit to the government a unified plan for achieving national development goals through 2030 and through 2036, which were previously outlined by President Vladimir Putin. The plan will be drawn up taking into account the already prepared passports of national projects (they will be submitted to the government no later than September 15). Meanwhile, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has distributed among his deputies the responsibilities for achieving national goals and technological leadership goals. It has been decided which of them will be responsible for what.
So, this is how the powers are distributed:
First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov:
He will oversee the achievement of technological leadership goals. We are talking about ensuring technological independence in various sectors of the economy. Work on the creation of production and automation means, new materials and chemistry, promising space technologies and services will be directly under his supervision.
At the same time, other deputy prime ministers will assist him. They are tasked with ensuring technological independence in their areas of competence. For example, Tatyana Golikova oversees healthcare. She will have to achieve technological leadership in the field of preserving citizens’ health (development of domestic biomedical technologies, formation of her own production facilities for producing products in the country). Dmitry Patrushev’s area of expertise is ensuring food security, Vitaly Savelyev’s area of expertise is the creation of unmanned aerial systems, Alexander Novak’s area of expertise is energy technology, Dmitry Grigorenko (Deputy Prime Minister – Head of the Government’s Cabinet) is digital transformation and the development of artificial intelligence.
But what results (in the Cabinet of Ministers they are called KPIs) will each deputy prime minister have to achieve in the industries he oversees?
Tatyana Golikova:
Protecting the population, promoting health, increasing people’s well-being, supporting families. Her area of responsibility includes such tasks assigned by the President as: increasing the total fertility rate to 1.6 by 2030 and 1.8 by 2036, increasing life expectancy to 78 years by 2030 and to 81 years by 2036. In addition, together with other deputy prime ministers, Tatyana Golikova will strive to reduce the poverty level below 7% by 2030 and below 5% by 2036.
The tasks assigned to Tatyana Golikova will be solved within the framework of the emerging national projects “Family” and “Long and Active Life”.
Marat Khusnullin:
Creating a comfortable and safe living environment.
Its area of responsibility includes providing citizens with housing with a total area of at least 33 sq. m per person by 2030 and at least 38 sq. m by 2036, updating the housing stock by at least 20 % by 2030 compared to 2019. Other objectives include the sustainable reduction of uninhabitable housing, increasing the affordability of housing on the primary market, the construction and reconstruction of drinking water supply and treatment facilities (at least 2,000 by 2030) and the modernisation of public transport.
The national project “Infrastructure for Life” will aim to achieve these indicators. The Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of the Interior, together with other federal executive authorities, will be responsible for its implementation.
Dmitry Patrushev:
Ecological well-being. By 2030, it is necessary to achieve the sorting of 100% of the annual volume of municipal solid waste, to dispose of no more than 50% of such waste and to include at least 25% of production and consumption waste in economic circulation as recyclable materials. By the end of 2030, at least 50 hazardous sites with accumulated environmental damage should be eliminated. The national project “Ecological well-being” will help to implement these tasks.
Alexander Novak. Photo: Sergey Bulkin/TASS
Alejandro Novak:
Sustainable and dynamic economic development.
By 2030, it is necessary to ensure an increase in the volume of investment in fixed assets by at least 60% compared to the level of 2020, and to achieve a reduction in the share of imports in the structure of the gross domestic product by 17%. This is the aim of the national project “Efficient and Competitive Economy”.
In addition, Novak, together with other deputy prime ministers, will have to solve the problem of sustainable growth of household incomes.
Vitaly Savelyev:
The formation of a sustainable and dynamic economy, the creation of a comfortable and safe living environment, the digital transformation of state and municipal government, the economy and the social sphere – this is what the new national project “Efficient Transport System” will aim at. It will include nine federal projects: “Development of high-speed railways”, “Development of the railway trunk network”, “Development of checkpoints across the state border of the Russian Federation”, “Development of the airfield trunk network”, “Development of human resources in the transport industry”, “Development of the core network of seaports”, “Development of the core network of inland waterways”, “Development of the Great Northern Sea Route” and “Digital transformation of the transport industry”.
Dmitry Chernyshenko:
Realization of the potential of each person, development of their talents, education of a patriotic and socially responsible person.
Objectives: To increase the proportion of young people participating in projects and programmes for professional and personal development and patriotic education to 75% by 2030. By 2030, the proportion of young people involved in social and voluntary activities should increase to 45%. This is the aim of the national project “Youth and Children”.
Dmitri Grigorenko:
Achieving digital maturity of state and municipal governments by 2030, as well as increasing the proportion of households connected to broadband Internet (by 2030, the proportion should reach 97% and by 2036 – 99%). The national project “Data Economy and Digital Transformation of the State” will help achieve these goals.
It would seem that how can individual deputy prime ministers solve such large-scale problems? In fact, we are talking about supervision and area of responsibility. Someone has to stand with a stick and hit him on the head if the performance fails. And, of course, not only the deputy prime ministers themselves, but also all ministries and departments under their control will work to achieve national goals.
