President: Government should focus on maintaining last year’s preponderance of labour productivity growth over salary

23 января 2015

Receiving the Prime Minister’s report yesterday, Alexander Lukashenko pointed out the need for concentrating on material production and export build-up and touched upon the issue of rental housing distribution and Geely car sales.

The Prime Minister delivered a report on the preliminary results of the economy achieved last year, noting that Belarus met forecasts on the foreign trade balance. Besides, a certain growth in industrial production was observed. A tangible effect was produced by the industries that have been modernized – these are, in particular, the woodworking, pulp-and-paper and chemical industries.