PM GIVES INTERVIEW TO CHINA DAILY

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Premier N.Altankhuyag Wednesday gave an interview to "China Daily", an English-language paper published in China. At the interview, Mr Altankhuyag focused on the last year’s economic performances and on this year’s main development directions. "Although some economic indicators showed a decline in 2013 statistics, we achieved great construction projects last year, for example, 50 thousand vacancies were created, a housing project for 20 thousand was successful, the construction went up twice," he said. Furthermore, the nation counted 45 million heads of the domestic animals, four provinces' centers were connected to the capital city by some 1,800-km paved roads, Mr Altankhuyag noted. The construction projects will continue in 2014 with the same pace, he said and underlined that, in order to reduce commodity imports, the Government will pay a special attention to the industrialization and export increase.