A new world of investment is building in Dubai

11 April 2016, Monday

Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Chief Executive Taliya Minullina on the Tatarstan delegation participated in the VI annual investment forum (Annual Investment Meeting - AIM-2016), that is taking place these days in Dubai (UAE). The delegation was headed by President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov.

The subject of VI Investment Congress 2016 is "New World FDI, it`s characteristics and best practices". The plenary session "Young Leaders Debate" was held before the official opening of the Forum.

According to the organizers, in 2015 the forum was attended by 124 countries and 145 prominent persons, including heads of state and government, ministers, mayors, governors, heads of international organizations and senior officials. Forum was attended by over 14,000 participants. This year forum is held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President of the UAE, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai. The focus will be devoted to the outstanding role of foreign direct investment in emerging and developed markets, their contribution and their functions as the main engine of the economy. At the three-day global event successful cases of attracting foreign direct investment flows and overcoming of difficulties in this area will be highlighted. It is expected that at the event program there will be Conference FDI experts and specialists, debate global leaders, a ministerial round table, also presentation of countries and the appointment of investments, government meetings with entrepreneurs and business meetings of commercial structures, workshops on creating efficiency and gala dinner. In addition, this year such activities as the awarding ceremony for the investment area of ​​FDI experts, investors Zone, SME Zone will add the value of the event. On the AIM-2016 3rd edition of the Annual FDI Report of the most recent trends of FDI at the global and regional level will be presented, illustrating ways ensuring FDI investments in different types of markets, particularly in developing countries.

AIM is a three-day event focused on industry and investment, with a variety of functions and cases. They are aimed at strengthening the international trade cooperation, including an exhibition of projects and presentation of companies, the leading conference participants. It is a good opportunity for holding private meetings in B2B format. It is a great occasion for the world's leading experts in the field of foreign direct investment (FDI), investors, business professionals and practitioners to meet and discuss changes of FDI in recent years, the new sources of FDI, and the policy of supporting and promoting best practices. Not surprisingly, FDI became the main topic at the AIM.

The latest news from the document of Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows global growth in 2015 of dollar investment in the world six times compared with 2004 and a new record in one-third of a trillion dollars. According to this data 50,000 multinational companies located in emerging markets. Most of them are state-owned enterprises, investing in such countries as China, Singapore and the Arab world. Participation of Tatarstan in this forum is the most active. Many meetings are also scheduled with representatives of the business community. And, of course, key members of the investment forum in Dubai will be invited to take part in the VIII International economic summit of Russia and the countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation "KazanSammit", which will be in Kazan in from 19 to 21 of May 2016.

After the official opening of an investment forum guests made a tour of the exhibition. The participants presented their projects, products and industries services in as agriculture, trade, construction, research, energy, finance, banking, insurance and others. Tatarstan in the framework of the Forum presented its exposition in Congress and Exhibition Center, that reveals the export opportunities of the country, prospects for investment in the form of industrial sites, federal economic zones, specific projects. Among these projects, for example, is construction of the exhibition center "Kazan Expo" in preparation for the world championship of working professions WorldSkills International.

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