Problems and Prospects of the Development of Productive Forces in the Far East

Abstract

problem of raising the effectiveness of management and intensifying the economy is becoming especially urgent for the Eastern economy because of the more important part the region is playing in promoting more stable growth rates of the nation's economy and because of its vast reserves of minerals, raw materials, and biological resources. M. S. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, emphasized at a meeting of party-economic activists of the Tiumen' and Tomsk regions: The accelerated development of the productive forces of Siberia and the is an important, integral part of the Party's economic strategy. This idea is contained in the draft of the new Program of the CPSU. Because it is absolutely impossible for the region to meet its important economic targets without science and scientific-technological progress, the Eastern Science Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, together with party and economic organizations, is drafting the Far East integrated program f...