TEHRAN- As announced by Iran’s Industry, Mining and Trade Minister Reza Fatemi-Amin, 3,200 new economic units started activity in the country during the past Iranian calendar year 1401 (ended on March 20).

Meanwhile, as announced by the government’s representative in the economic units revival movement, over 4,200 inactive and semi-active units were revived in the country during the past year, and the figure is planned to reach 8,000 units this year.

Referring to the motto of this year, which is “Inflation Control, Production Growth”, Amir-Hossein Madani said the units to be revived this year will be knowledge-based, industrial and production, agricultural, mineral, and service offering.

Stating that one of the policies pursued by the 13th government is investment making in industry and economy, he added that one of the main solutions for this purpose is the revival of inactive and semi-active units in different parts of the country.

As announced by the head of Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization (ISIPO), 1,714 idle production units were revived in the country during the past Iranian calendar year.

Referring to the Leader's emphasis on knowledge-based employment last year, Ali Rasoulian said: “We have formulated a coherent operational package to support knowledge-based companies and considered incentives and advantages for giving land to such companies.”

He added: "Last year, we gave land to more than a hundred knowledge-based companies, and we managed to meet 107 out of 378 technological needs of these companies, which were previously met from abroad, inside the country."

Pointing out that a good relationship has been established between knowledge-based companies and large enterprises, the deputy industry, mining and trade minister announced that 120 companies were added to the list of knowledge-based companies last year.

“We agreed with the Technology Department of the Ministry of Science to establish knowledge-based parks in industrial estates so that companies can take advantage of these parks”, he added.

Referring to this year’s slogan, which is “Inflation Control, Production Growth”, Rasoulian said: “We must control inflation and increase production because these two have serious effects on each other.”

He called providing industrial infrastructure and supporting small industries as requirements for production growth and said: “Supporting small industries and providing their financial resources and involving the private sector are our goals.”

Stating that handing over affairs to the private sector is one of the policies of the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade, the official emphasized: “It is easier to revive the stagnant units than to provide financial support to the units, and therefore we are trying to connect the driving companies to the stagnant units.”

The ISIPO head further announced the preparation of investment packages for the participation of the private sector and said: “We are creating workshops for small enterprises and are identifying enterprises with competitive products.”

According to Rasoulian, the approach of reviving the idle units is very important since the country has been dealing with the most severe international sanctions for many years; and it relies more than ever on domestic production.

Of course, what is seen as the result of the efforts of the ISIPO, as one of the main organizations in charge of boosting the country's production, planning and diligent follow-up to revive the stagnant production units, fortunately, the work in this due is on the right track, the official has stated, highlighting that revival of each stagnant production and industrial unit leads to job creation and return to work of 18 people on average.

He stressed that reviving idle production units is the main approach that the government is currently following in the industry sector.

The government is seriously pursuing its programs to resolve production units' problems in collaboration with the private sector; Very good planning has been done in this regard, Rasoulian said.

MA