Roman Shaikhutdinov: “Special economic zone is only one sixth of Innopolis. We are building a new city”

The Tatarstan Vice-premier and Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov participated in on-line conference of the electronic newspaper Business on-line.

He told about realisation of the main IT project in the Republic of Tatarstan – Innopolis, and plans on electronic services development in republic.

According to Roman Shaikhutdinov, Innopolis is a territorially detached IT center. It is the city for IT specialists with average per capita income twice as much as of other Russian citizens.

“We have several goals to realise. The first one is to bring together the highly intellectual society. Another important component of the innovative city is education.

The status of special economic zone will also make sense. “We already have one special economic zone in republic. This successfully implemented project enabled getting the permission for constructing another special economic zone of technical innovation type,” the Minister said.