Leningrad region took ninth place among Russian regions for the development of small and medium-sized businesses

The head of the Leningrad Region Valery Serdyukov at a meeting of Council on development and support of small and medium-sized businesses in the LO made an official statement that in the region are working effectively activities aimed at developing small and medium businesses. Present at the meeting and confidant Dmitry Medvedev, officially representing their interests. From the statement by the Governor Luo, the region is in ninth place among the other regions of the Russian Federation on development of small and medium businesses. In addition, in the Leningrad region is concentrated the maximum number of small business incubators, which work to promote small businesses throughout the country. Ten incubators LO employs approximately 450 people, which is approximately 143 SMEs. If we talk about the total employment population of the entire region, it is approximately 70 000 people. GDP of the small business accounts for 19%. Valery Serdyukov: "In each of the 18 districts launched a program to build industrial parks. For the construction of six of these sites are marked. Also in the regional budget in 2010 provided about 100 million rubles for construction of family farms. "