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transportation, processing technologies, and oil services. Public-Private Partnerships:
Under Uzbekistan’s law on Public-Private Partnerships, there are new opportunities
for foreign investors to participate in large projects, with tenders operated by the
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Development Agency under the Ministry of Finance
of Uzbekistan. Since 2018, foreign bidders have signed PPP agreements to implement
several fossil fuel and renewable energy projects. Food Processing and Packaging:
Growing external demand for food products produced in Uzbekistan and efforts to
improve the productivity of the agricultural sector create export opportunities for
suppliers of food preservation, processing, and packaging technologies as well as
transportation and logistics solutions. Construction: Construction is one of the most
promising industries in Uzbekistan, which demonstrated a continual growth rate of
15-20% per year until the pandemic. The industry grew by 9.1% in 2020 and
continued to drive the wider economic growth ICT. An ambitious government
program aimed at developing a national information-communication system and
upgrading communications infrastructure to the 5G standard creates increasing
demand for IT solutions in both the public and private sectors of the economy. The
government adopted its Digital Uzbekistan – 2030 Strategy in October 2020 to
intensify works in this direction. Chemical industry: The 2019-2030 national program
for the development of the chemical industry has identified 31 projects with a total
value of $12 billion. The government plans to increase production of higher
value-added goods through processing of raw materials. SOE procurement: Starting
from July 5, 2021, President Mirzoyan obliged large state-owned enterprises and
several ministries to conduct their procurement only through public tenders.
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