The industrial added value of the region increased from less than 2.2 billion yuan (320 million U.S. dollars) in 1978 to 510.9 billion yuan in 2017, the region's industry and information technology department said in its latest update.

The region has been a major producer of coal, calcium carbide, and monocrystal silicon in China. Mengniu Dairy and Yili Group are heavyweights in the dairy sector.
The region's coal production capacity exceeded 1.33 billion tonnes in 2017, ranking first in China.

But in order to reduce its over-reliance on coal, the region has managed to raise the value of non-coal industries, such as wind and solar power generation, to account for 75 percent of its total industrial growth in 2017, the department said.

The region's installed electricity capacity reached 118 million kilowatts last year, ranking second in the country. During the 1978-2017 period, the region's power generation increased by 116 times.

Delivering greetings from the President of Mongolia Kh.Battulga to Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Minister highlighted friendly relations of Mongolia and Kuwait based on mutual respect and support of the two countries during difficult times.

Emir of Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah said that he considers Mongolia as close friend and expressed readiness to fully support expansion and development of bilateral cooperation.

Foreign Minister D.Tsogtbaatar presented the Order of the Polar Star to Kuwaiti citizen Badr Al-Baijan on behalf of the President of Mongolia.

The Kuwaiti Government has granted aid for several construction projects in Mongolia such as a National Burns Centre and the renovation of Undurkhaan airport in Khentii Province.

In specific, mutton and goat meat exports grew the highest, surging 36 times within two years. According to the Deputy Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry Saule Janimkhan, small animals are the majority in the livestock herd with sheep account for 45.4 percent of total livestock and goat - 41.2 percent.

Mr. Saule views that the imbalance of livestock is disrupting proper balance, degrading pasture and ultimately reducing the capacity and efficiency of animal husbandry directly. He then highlighted that there is a capacity of increase export to about 180,000 tons by limiting the pasture carrying capacity and herd rotation.

Additionally, economists highlighted the diversification at the Finance Forum 2018 and specified the increasing export of agricultural goods.

Mohinder Pratap Singh is presently Director at the headquarters of the ministry.

Singh also served for a long time in MEA’s protocol division and was known for his deft handling of many Presidential and PM’s visits. He was also posted in the UK and Canada

Ratings of the MPP has been falling among its members, not to mention the general public, however, its leader U.Khurelsukh receives much support after surviving parliamentary attempt to sack him earlier this month. PM U.Khurelsukh has promised to clean up the party as well as the Mongolian government. On the other hand, the ratings of Speaker M.Enkhbold has have plummeted drastically since the MPP took power and he now leads the nomination of the country’s 10 worst lawmakers

Minister of Justice Ts.Nyamdorj was named as second in both best and worst lawmakers’ lists. Populist lawmaker and former singer S.Javkhlan was named as third in the best lists. MP D.Oyunkhorol was named as third in the worst list.

Aimed at implementing the revised Law on Public Service, the Cabinet approved the regulations on additional payment to state administrative and service servants; additional for doctoral degree and professor titles; skill-based additional pay to service servants; additional for service servants for rural mission; and additional of employment conditions for health sector’s workers.

Additional pay of 5 percent will be issued to those who have worked in public service for 6-10 years, 10 percent -- 11-15 years, 15 percent --16-20 years, 20 percent --21-25 years, and 25 percent -- for over 26 years.

Moreover, additional pay will be also given to those who worked overtime at the request of employer or during public holidays and weekends.

The regulation on issuing additional pay based on the period of serving in public service will come into effect from January 1, 2020. Other regulations will be effective from January 1, 2019.

While expressing the Government’s interest to commission the New Ulaanbaatar International Airport in July, 2019 on the occasion of the National Naadam Festival, PM U.Khurelsukh claimed that the Government will render support on fulfilling works for which the Government of Mongolia is responsible at high level of quality, resolving necessary investment promptly and establishing concession agreements within schedule.

“In any business participant parties working under joint management should follow win-win approach. Our government has already introduced its decision to operate the new airport under 51:49 management agreement. Therefore, I assign the two parties to establish the agreement within January, 2019, showing mutual trust to each other, “ PM U.Khurelsukh added.

Furthermore, Minister of Finance Ch.Khurelbaatar informed that the funding to be financed from state budget will be allocated without any in 2019 as it has been fully reflected in the Law on 2019 State Budget.

According to the agreement, total sum of the construction works is JPY 49.5 billion and additional works cost JPY 5.9 billion. The contractor undertook duty to hand over a total of 32 works including 23 buildings and 9 facilities and equipment and approval works by the state commission is running at 98.9 percent.

Construction of the highway to the airport is running with 86 percent performance and it is expected to be completed in April, 2019.

When the New Ulaanbaatar International Airport puts into operation, in July 2019 according to the talks held by Prime Ministers of Mongolia and Japan, Mongolia will have world-standard international airport, covering 54.000 square meter of area and having capacity to receive 3 million passengers a year as well as connected with Ulaanbaatar city with 6-lane highway.

The team is consisted of 11 specialists from supreme courts and law enforcement agencies of France, Italy, Russia, Germany, Georgia, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania and Ukraine in addition to specialists from the OECD.

At the first stage of the evaluation, the Independent Authority Against Corruption submitted general report of Mongolia prepared within the questions sent by OECD. While getting familiarized with the situation on the spot, the specialists are having meetings with officials and representatives from public and private companies and civil society organizations, collecting additional information. The evaluation report will be discussed during the plenary meeting of the network to be held in Paris in March 2019.

They are popular in Mongolia, as elsewhere, because hybrid engines are efficient and fuel costs low. The cars themselves are also cheap: according to the ub Post, a local newspaper, you can pick up a used Prius for as little as $2,000. That is partly because most Mongolian ones are second-hand imports from Japan, where passenger vehicles more than three years old must undergo expensive safety tests. Rather than shell out for those, many Japanese drivers buy a new car. (That is the point of the tests, some say: to boost domestic carmakers.) In 2017 Japan exported 30,000 hybrid vehicles to Mongolia.

In addition, the government has exempted hybrids from various taxes, in an attempt to clear the air in Ulaanbaatar. The city is one of the most polluted in the world in winter because of the widespread use of coal for heating and power generation. Hybrid vehicles enter the country duty-free and, unlike most cars, are exempt from an air-pollution tax.

But the clincher is the Prius’s reliability. Ulaanbaatar may be the chilliest capital in the world. On a winter morning drivers must sometimes start their cars in temperatures below -30°C. Cars that run on petrol and diesel tend to sputter and die at such temperatures. The Prius can use its battery to power its electrical engine until the car warms up enough for the petrol engine to run smoothly—saving many a Mongolian from freezing frustration.