Ulaanbaatar
Inaugural Session of the Gobi Regional Council Takes Place
Politics
Ulaanbaatar, May 14, 2025 /MONTSAME/. At the inaugural Session of the Gobi Regional Council held on May 12, 2025, in Sainshand soum of Dornogobi aimag, decisions were made to develop the Gobi region as a specialized industrial region and a sub-region for green energy and implement 33 projects and measures in four areas to address issues facing the region with funding from the State and local budgets.
Major development measures to be carried out in the Gobi region will be newly defined and aligned with the development policies of Gobisumber, Dornogobi, Umnugobi, and Dundgobi aimags. The “Gobi Development-2024” Program will be drafted, along with the legal framework of the Regional Council, investment plans, projects, and programs, based on the region’s specific features, research analysis, and proposals from researchers and scholars as well as the local government, private sector, and citizens, and submitted to the Cabinet of Mongolia.
During the Session, it was underlined that, under the Government’s 14 mega projects and its Regional Development Policy, the benefits from the natural resources of the region should directly contribute to improving the quality of life of the people living in the Gobi region.
Dundgobi and Gobisumber aimags have greater potential to focus on agriculture and develop transport‑and‑logistics centres, while Dornogobi and Umnugobi aimags are better positioned for industrial development.
Representatives of local authorities and residents of the Gobi region also proposed expanding citizens’ access to mortgage loans, allocating a defined share of mining revenue to the Gobi aimags, establishing laboratories at border checkpoints so goods and food can be imported without having to pass through Ulaanbaatar, repairing and upgrading the Ulaanbaatar–Zamyn‑Uud highway, tackling water and soil degradation, developing renewable‑energy projects, addressing climate change, reducing dust storms, and intensifying greening projects and programs in the Gobi region.
