Being the largest industrial, scientific and educational centre, the city of Minsk occupies a particular place in ensuring the sustainable development of the social and economic development of the country, and improve the competitiveness of its economy. The basis of its innovative development is creation favourable legal, economic, organizational and social conditions for intensifying the innovative activities, increasing the technical level of production, social sphere and communal services of the city.

Here, the development of the branches of the communal services of the city is considered as one of priority directions of scientific-and-technical and innovative development of the city of Minsk.

The main source of financing the innovative projects for the enterprises of the communal services of the city of Minsk is the funds of the budget and Innovation Foundation. The funds of the Innovation Foundation are used in the following directions:

1. creation and development of facilities, based on the new and high technologies;
2. financing the programmes for energy saving and introducing the new energy-efficient technologies and equipment as well as expenditure for implementation of international projects in the energy-saving field with the participation of the Republic of Belarus;
3. construction and reconstruction of the buildings, engineering and transport services and structures (except for overhaul) connected with these directions;
4. financing the R&D works to be performed within the scientific and technical programmes and innovation projects as well as works for preparing and launching the manufacture of new kinds of products;
5. acquisition of the equipment related to the above directions.

The priority direction of the scientific-and-technical development of the food-industry enterprises consists in implementation of the measures for improvement of the radio protective properties of the foods produced as well as for searching the technologies for reducing the contents of the substances harmful for the human health (heavy metals, nitrates) including the organization of the control preventing the contamination of the foods with such substances.

City Milk Factory No.3 Utility Production Unitary Enterprise plans to revise the structure of processing of milk for the purpose of production of low-fat and fatless products enriched with bifidus bacteria, efficient bacterial milk-clotting preparations of new generation and other vegetable-origin components having therapeutic properties. It is also planned to increase the production and extension of the nomenclature of the products with high biological value and therapeutic-and-dietary properties. The technical modernization of the enterprise shall provide for the close method of production in the form of combined production systems.

Minskkhleb Unitary Utility Enterprise plans to continue the technical retrofitting of the production facilities by acquiring of new equipment making it possible to use progressive technologies of bakery production as well as being capable to ensure the production of new kinds of products.

The strategy of the innovative development of the urban transport infrastructure of the city of Minsk sets the creation of high-quality diversified national transport system integrated in the European market of transportation services as its object.

The implementation of this strategy includes the following basic directions:

1. Development and implementation of prospective directions of improvement of the branch management including the introduction of new forms of branch management and informational support of the management processes;
2. Strengthening the integrity and unity of the transportation system by combining the state regulation with the action of market mechanisms at all the levels of management of the transport and strict adherence to the balance of interests of the society (State) and business;
3. Utilization of the existing production facilities of the public transport to the fullest extent and development of them on the basis of the scientific and technical progress;
4. Coordination of the functioning and development of all kinds of transportation with overcoming the departmental differences between the land transport, underground railways and suburban railways;
5. system renewals of the transportation system, replenishment of the rolling stock of all the kinds of the transport with modern vehicles having enhanced technical, economic, aesthetic and ecological characteristics, modernization and technical retrofitting of the material and technical basis of the transport complex.

In particular, Belkommunmash State Production Unitary Enterprise plans the manufacture of low-floor articulated four-door passenger trolleybus of the 33300A model with increased capacity and electronic control system intended for intracity passenger traffic via trolleybus lines within the framework of the long-term plan of the innovative development of the transportation system.

The prospective of the city-planning policy and improvement of the territorial organization of the city of Minsk include:

1. Conservation of the ecological balance and conditions for improvement of the ecological situation in the city of Minsk;
2. Development of the individual-housing zones with the account of the deficiency of the territorial resources for construction of the enhanced-comfort dwelling with reduced number of storeys as well as availability of the territorial reserves and necessity of the development of the social and cultural potential in the micro-districts of the city of Minsk;
3. Preservation of “green wedges” in inter-highway lowly-urbanized spaces;
4. Restoration and further improvement of the recreation facilities of the city of Minsk for the purpose of preservation and development of the recreational areas, health-improving localities and efficient use of natural therapeutic resources.

The most important problem of implementation of the main provisions of the General Plan of Development of the City of Minsk consists as before in scientific and project provision, including the development of programmes and performing the scientific and project works in:

1. settlement of the city population with the account of the prospective tendencies in demography, migration of the population, development of the buildings with reduces number of storeys and variations in the functional characteristics of the industrial-building zones;
2. reconstruction of the existing housing stock of the cities, towns and settlements as a whole;
3. development of the regulation on the suburban green zones and project of planning of these zones;
4. development and reconstruction of the road and transport system.

The objects of planning and urban significance are features, as a rule, by high resource-consumption density. The matters of engineering support of these objects have never been considered actually in sectorial schemes. Due to this fact, it is planned to perform the works for determining the volumes of resource consumption by these objects, development and system substantiation of the proposals for their resource-saving engineering support with the account of the functional-planning, energy-saving and ecological regulations of their placement.

The most important factor of the successive development of urban-planning and organization of the territory of the city of Minsk consists in strengthening the role of the management of the urban-planning process, introduction of new forms of management of the branch and information support in the whole structure of the executive authorities of the city with the account of the accumulating role of the urban planning and organization of the territory where the factors of advance of events and forecast of the development are of key significance for making substantiated practical solutions.

The implementation of the General Plan of the development of the city of Minsk is inseparably linked with the prospects and main tendencies of the innovative development of the building sector. These tendencies are based on the necessity of:

1. modification of the residential construction structure and adoption of new architectural and construction systems, types of buildings and technique of their erection; reduction of resource intensity, energy and labour consumption for construction and exploitation of the dwelling;
2. increase of the volumes of the residential construction in the city of Minsk, bringing the object being constructed or reconstructed in line with the growing requirements of the customers and population for their quality and aesthetic characteristics.

In this connection, the following problems will be solved for satisfying the requirements of the building complex for the building materials produced:

1. Renewal of the fixes production-related assets with advancing to the higher technical-equipment level;
2. Raising of production of high-quality competitive materials and articles in accordance with the demands of construction organizations and population for them;
3. Reducing the resource intensity as well as energy and labour consumption for manufacturing the products;
4. Strengthening the interaction with the domestic developers and manufacturers of the process equipment.

In the years 2007-2010, Efficient Industrial Structures Plant Unitary Utility Enterprise of Minskstroi Production Concern will carry out the technical retrofitting and modernization of the production facilities with the account of the up-to-date requirements for the characteristics of the output products and necessity of enhancement of the consumer’s properties of the dwelling and industrial objects being constructed.

In the energy-saving sphere of this enterprise, it is proposed to reduce the consumption of energy resources by 7 per cent every year till the year 2010 by taking measures for the rationalization of the energy consumption and introducing the energy-saving equipment. To provide the scientific and technical support of these measures, the close cooperation with scientific organizations and scientific-research centres will be organized for the purpose of development of highly efficient methods and technologies of the production.

In the nearest years, the above enterprise plans to launch the production of new type of products, fine-slit claydite stones (on the basis of introduction of the process line from Hess Company, Germany) for construction of single-layer external walls without additional application of expensive heat- and sound-insulation materials. Using such stones in the civil engineering will make it possible to reduce the specific cost of the structures of external and internal walls and partitions as well as reduce considerably the consumption of energy resources for heating the buildings. The ecological cleanness of the production will be also improved: content of the cement dust in the process line emissions will be halved and the gas component will be completely excluded.

Besides, the volumes of production of the structures and articles of light cellular concrete will be increased. The advanced development of the production of materials and articles is forecasted that makes it possible to improve the efficiency of the construction.

The main problems for ensuring the innovative development of the engineering infrastructure in the city of Minsk are:

1. Increase of the capacities of the engineering infrastructure providing the construction volumes and improve the standard of the communal beautification of the city;
2. Modernization of the engineering-infrastructure objects for the purpose of improvement of the quality, efficiency and reliability of the communal support of the city;
3. Centralized and local automation of the communal objects;
4. Introduction of the energy- and resource-saving measures and accounting instruments.

The further development of the centralized water-supply system of the city of Minsk with the account of the intensity of urban-planning utilization of the territory with improvement of regime of saving water resources. A complex of the following measures aimed at the improvement of the drinking-water quality and sanitary reliability of the urban water-supply system will be implemented:

1. Improvement of the water-preparation technique at the water-supply purification plant of surface water intake;
2. Construction of the deferrization stations at the three operated water intakes;
3. Construction of the pure-water tanks in the water-supply systems of the 2nd and 3rd ascents;
4. Organization of the sanitary-protection zones at all the water intake of the city.

For the purpose of reducing the number of emergency applications and claims from the customers and gas consumers, primarily, from among the population, the quality of all the works in the field of gas supply will be increased. To solve this problem the work for compliance of the quality of the works to be performed with the requirements of the International Standards ISO of the series 9000, version of 2000.

It is proposed to use new technologies in the field of gas supply and implementation of the organizational and technical measures aimed at the improvement of servicing the clients, which include:

1. Correction of the terms of performing the routine maintenance of objects of the gas-distribution system;
2. Adoption of the application-based method of maintenance of the intra-building gas equipment;
3. Reduction of gas losses in comparable conditions;
4. Taking measures for energy saving;
5. Replacement of the obsolete equipment;
6. Improvement of the reliability of the gas-supply system.

In the field of heat-supply, it is planned to:

1. develop the economically substantiated conception of the technical retrofitting, reconstruction and directions of use of the operating heat sources and heating networks and those being constructed;
2. study the degree of wear of the operating equipment on the heat sources and heat networks and determine its stage-by-stage decommissioning due to physical wear for the nearest or far prospects; carry out the stage-by-stage replacement of the operating heating conduit by factory-made pre-insulated pipes;
3. determine the scale of expedient use and place of installation of small-sized gas-turbine units at the operating heat and power plant and boiler houses;
4. carry out the step-by-step conversion to the independent system of connection of the consumers to the heat networks and to the optimum temperature regimes of the heat network operation;
5. ensure the economically expedient development of the local systems of centralized heat supply in certain zones of the city (Minsk Free Economic Zone on the basis of Shabany District Boiler House, etc.).

The vegetable soil is one of the most scarce building materials not only in the city of Minsk, but also in other megalopolis due to natural peculiarities of its reproduction. Every year, the works for tree and shrub planting in the city of Minsk require more than 200 thousand cubic metres of such material. To provide for centralized production of the vegetable soil of the required quality, Minskzelenstroi Unitary Enterprise plans to introduce the technology and modern equipment from one of German companies. Besides, the innovative project “Construction of the Greenhouse and Boiler House and Introduction of the New Technology of Growing the Flower Products at Flowers of Metropolis Unitary Utility Enterprise” will be implemented. In addition to development of the new-generation process equipment and special construction of the greenhouses, this project will include a complex of organizational and technical measures aimed at increase of the basic indices of efficiency of the production of flower products.

Among the basic tasks of the innovative development of the residents of Minsk Free Economic Zone – the introduction of the state-of-the-art technologies and advances management experience, development of the export-oriented and import-substituting facilities based on the new and high technologies. Within the Free Economic Zone there are 74 operating industrial enterprises-residents, among which 58 enterprise manufacture the products of in-house fabrication, 16 perform the works for designing, construction and reconstruction on their own production facilities as well as take preparatory measures for starting up the manufacturing process.

The Register of High-Technology Facilities and Enterprises includes 6 enterprises-residents of Minsk Free Economic Zone, the quality management system of the series ISO 9001 2001 was introduces at 10 enterprises.

For the purpose of coordination of taking the measures for innovative development of the city of Minsk and more efficient use of the available potential of the sectorial and university science in the city of Minsk, it is planned to create the regional Information Analysis Centre, information bases and data banks on the new organizational and technical basis.

The main measures and projects of the innovative development of the communal-ownership enterprises of the city of Minsk for the years 2007-2010 are presented in the long-term plan of the innovation development (to be amended and supplemented annually).

The total amount of financing of the works for creating new enterprises and new production facilities at the operating enterprises as well as modernization of the operating facilities in the years 2007-2010 will be 106,967.5 million roubles, including that from the Republican Budget’s funds to the amount of 18,478 million roubles, from the local budget – to the amount of 38,723.7 million roubles, at the cost of bank credits – 19,881.8 million roubles, at the cost of loans – 5.990 million roubles and from other sources – 23,894 million roubles.