Russia is channelling efforts into the development of its Far East.

The government defined the development of the Russian Far East as an important part in implementing its national strategy and set up the ministry of Far East development in the government in 2012.

President Vladimir Putin said that it is a long-range and unconditional priority task for Russia to achieve rapid development of the Far East, adding that this is the prospect of the country's development envisioning hundreds of years ahead, not decades.

The development of the Russian Far East is aimed at actively promoting the economic development of the country as required by the developing reality by foiling the West's ever-more vicious moves to impose sanctions against the country and isolate and stifle it.

The government is devoting primary efforts to infrastructure construction to lay a solid foundation for the development of the region.

According to the governor of the Maritime Territory Administration, the port of Sukhodol with a freight transport capacity of 20 million tons has been completed. The territory is pressing on with the designing, construction and expansion of harbours and when the new projects are completed, the harbours in the region will be able to handle a total of 250 million tons of freight.

The modernization projects of the Baikal-Amur trunk line and trans-Siberian railway are being pushed ahead and the traffic capacity of these railway lines will increase 1.5 times by 2024.

The airlines running between St Petersburg and Vladivostok through the Arctic Ocean were put into operation, thereby opening up a prospect for international shuttle flight from Asia to Europe.

The role of Vostochny Cosmodrome is being highlighted.

This year alone, the spaceport witnessed the launches of the first Condor-FKA radar satellite, the automatic space station Luna-25 which is the first lunar probe in modern Russian history, the meteorological satellite Meteor-M (Nos. 2-3) and other Russian and foreign spacecraft atop the Soyuz-2.1a and Soyuz-2.1b carrier rockets.

Russia plans to carry out manned space missions by means of the spaceport.

The government is also pressing ahead with urban development projects in order to improve the living standards of residents in the Far East and solve the problems of talents and manpower needed for the development of the region.

President Putin recently convened a consultative meeting on the implementation of the Far Eastern regional development programme in Vladivostok.

He said that city construction should above all be based on the demands of local residents and stressed the need to make effective use of detailed geographical advantages.

Describing Vladivostok, Blagoveshchensk and Khabarovsk as major educational centres in the Russian Far East, he referred to the need to encourage young people to remain there after graduation to work and look for their career prospects in the beloved cities.

By 2024, the scale of house construction in the region will reportedly increase 1.6 times as compared to the level in 2019. And additional measures have been taken to update the communications infrastructure and support public health, education and social fields as a whole.

Efforts are being made to improve the quality of higher education, upgrade the educational system and infrastructure and develop Far Eastern Federal University into a world-class university.

The Russian government is promoting international cooperation to accelerate the development of the Far East.

As it has been sponsoring the Eastern Economic Forum since 2015, it has developed the region as a cooperation project of an international scale.

There was Eighth Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok from September 10 to 13 on the theme of "Let's advance to cooperation, peace and prosperity".

Through the forum Russia introduced the achievements made in the development of the region and promoted mutually beneficial cooperation with many countries.

The Russian government and people will surely reap good fruits in their efforts to further strengthen the position and role of the Far East in the economic development of the country and expand and develop international cooperation and collaboration.