Ulaanbaatar
Prime Minister works in Sukhbaatar and Khentii aimags
Politics
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. During the last weekend, Prime Minister of Mongolia U.Khurelsukh worked in Khentii aimag to present about the government activities with goals to ensure domestic supply of petroleum and oil products and healthy food products and develop infrastructure, processing factory, digital system and intensive livestock and farming industries. In particular, the Prime Minister mentioned that a leather and hide processing factories as well as copper smelting, copper concentrating and steel plants will be built and commissioned in the coming few years.
Chair of the Cabinet Secretariat L.Oyun-Erdene, who also accompanied the Premier during the working trip, introduced about development works planned in Khentii aimag. He informed that capital investment worth over MNT 500 billion have been made in the aimag with support from the Prime Minister and parliament members elected from the constituencies of Khentii, yielding results in a number of areas of education, health, culture, construction and infrastructure in the region.
Afterwards, PM Khurelsukh paid a working trip to Sukhbaatar aimag and took part in a workshop organized by the Ministry of Education and Science. In his address at the event, the Prime Minister pledged to pursue a policy to prepare a ‘Mongolian’, who respects their traditions and customs, national history and culture and measures will be taken to support ‘skilled teachers’. Within the framework of these goals, the government has been focusing on capacity building for 993 teachers and more than 1,700 employees of schools and kindergartens operating aimag-wide, serving for 5,500 kids of kindergarten and 13,000 schoolchildren.
It has been also informed that between 2019 and 2020, the government has built 119 new kindergartens and 71 schools, allowing over 40,000 children to attend schools and kindergartens in addition to around 930,000 children in 1,442 kindergartens and 841 schools nationwide.
In Sukhbaatar aimag, the Prime Minister held a meeting with healthcare workers and thanked for them for exerting all their tireless efforts to protect the health of the population amid the global pandemic. He further noted that public health promotion and disease prevention, improvement of domestic healthcare services, introduction of advanced medical treatment equipment and technologies, growth in the number of nurses, quality assurance of pharmaceuticals and improvement of health insurance system have been set as priority targets of the government in the healthcare industry.
