Penza, 21 December 2016. PenzaNews. The head of the Penza administration Victor Kuvaytsev called increase of Penza investment attractiveness one of the goals of the municipal government.

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According to him, it is expected that the increase of the volume of investment in the city economy in 2016 will reach 10-12% in comparison with the previous year.

“Within the framework of the investment events held by the city administration, 55 meetings were conducted. As a result, it was possible to make 11 agreements with the planned volume of investments of more than 380 million rubles and about 370 new working places. Nowadays, about 200 working places were created – it is the result of the projects carried out by the companies ‘Telekarta’, Scientific Production Enterprise ‘Tekhnoproekt’ and ‘Agat-trans’,” Victor Kuvaytsev said during his report on preliminary results of the social and economic development of Penza, which took place in the grand hall of the mayor’s office on Wednesday, December 21.

Speaking about the results of the work done in this sphere, he noted that the regional centre occupies the first position among municipal settlements in the investment rating of the Penza region.