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The delegation, which includes the representatives of government agencies and the business community, is headed by Government Deputy Chairman Mr. Shi Dagang.

In Tatarstan guests from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) arrived by the invitation of the region’s head: Rustam Minnikhanov visited Xinjiang on a working visit in April this year.

The program of the visit of the official delegation on June 26 includes: visit to the Kazan Federal University, Kazan Kremlin, Kul Sharif Mosque and the Annunciation Cathedral, the Agro-Industrial Park and Kazan State Energetics University, meeting with President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. The delegation is accompanied by Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Chief Executive Linar Yakupov.

In the plenary session of the event as part of its working visit to France participated President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov.

At the opening of «Innovative City 2014» head of the region noted that the preservation of the environment, historic sites and cultural heritage, the active use of high technologies – all the issues are important and interesting for Tatarstan as one of the economically developed regions of Russia.

Mr. Minnikhanov thanked the leadership of Nice for the invitation to participate in this event and expressed confidence that the knowledge obtained within the conference and new contacts will help in the further development of innovative projects that are running today in Tatarstan.

During the visit to the capital of Rhone-Alpes representatives of the Republic, headed by Rustam Minnikhanov, held meetings with the leadership of the Lyon Chamber of Commerce, the presentation of economic and investment potential of Tatarstan, as well as visits to Lyon Technology Park and Renault Trucks plant.

The delegation of Tatarstan includes Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Chief Executive Linar Yakupov, Minister of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan Midhat Shagiakhmetov, First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan Ruslan Kabirov, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Tatarstan Shamil Ageev, SEZ «Innopolis» CEO Igor Nosov.

Within the Fifth International Investment Forum «Industrial Projects in Russia», which will be held July 3-4 in Moscow, Tatarstan will present its industrial parks.

Among the participants such large objects as industrial park «Kamskiye Polyany», SEZ «Alabuga», «Himgrad» technopolis, «Tchistopol» and KIP «Master» industrial parks. During the forum will be presented detailed profiles of industrial parks, which will give understanding to the basic development trends.

The Forum 2014 will bring together about 700 delegates. The main theme of the plenary session, which will be held throughout the first day of the Forum, will be the state support of investments in projects of industry, including the development of industrial parks. State systematically expanding its presence in the field of industrial infrastructure, mainly supporting regional initiatives and private developers to build industrial parks.

This year, from June 30 will be working summer urban and city planning school under the guidance of Miguel Robles-Duran and his colleagues as part of Kazan Urban Forum.

The school will be organized jointly with the Institute of Governance and Territorial Development of Kazan Federal University (KFU) and will last until July 11.

Last year, Miguel Robles-Duran has come to Kazan and performed a public lecture at the Kazan Federal University.

Business Breakfast «Portrait of Russian regions. Integration of the Russian regions’ economies into the global system» with the participation of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan opened in June 5 the VI International Economic Summit of Russia and OIC countries (KazanSummit2014).

Welcoming the participants, Mr. Minnikhanov emphasized that the value of the summit is increasing every year: the event, which began as a platform for discussing issues of Islamic banking, today turned into a broader format – KazanSummit in 2014 was attended by over 500 participants from 26 countries, as well as about 20 regions of the Russian Federation.

«Today it is important for us to establish a direct constructive dialogue, to hear from foreign representatives of foreign business opinion about the real situation in the economy», - said the head of the republic.

Executive Director of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) Bronzatto Carlos became the guest of honor at the VI International Economic Summit of Russia and OIC countries (KazanSummit2014) and presented at a special session on best practices in attracting investment.

The session of institutions development with representatives of investment promotion agencies and Development Corporations of Tatarstan, the Republic of Mari El, Ulyanovsk, Kaliningrad, Altai discussed investment promotion and brand-building regions and the country as a whole, investment, advertising and information campaigns. Mr. Bronzatto, in particular, noted that the organization of a large PR-information campaign of a particular region is quite expensive.

Unified brand of the region as a multifaceted resource of development was discussed at a roundtable during the VI International Economic Summit of Russia and OIC countries (KazanSummit 2014).

Representatives of brand territories creating participated in discussion and shared their experiences and opinion about why the brand of Tatarstan is so successful.The discussion was moderated by the Chairman of the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan on Tourism Sergey Ivanov. Among the speakers were Brandflight CEO Sergey Mitrofanov, RSUTS Leading researcher Tatiana Krivosheeva, Managing partner of the StasMarketing group Andrey Stas, AGT Director of strategic development Vladislav Shulaev and ANCOR Chairman Pavel Ignatiev.

From 6 to 25 June all citizens have the opportunity to choose which ideas for improvement of the city and the organization of new spaces for recreation will be implemented in Kazan.

Projects for improvement of the city divided into five areas: bicycle infrastructure, car parking, pets paddock, accessible environment and separate waste collection. Vote for the most favorite ideas here: http://yopolis.ru/budget/kazan_gorod Best works will be presented in the last week of June to Kazan Administration.