Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. On April 30, 2019, Prime Minister of Mongolia U.Khurelsukh issued an ordinance to establish a working group to evaluate the development stages of Mongolia in the past three decades and formulate an official document, determining the country’s long and midterm development policy.

The working group, headed by Chief of the Cabinet's Secretariat Ch.Oyun-Erdene, involving more than 1500 people, scholars and experts, secretaries of state of 13 government ministries, heads of some agencies, universities and civil society representatives worked on the document for eight months.

The completed “Vision – 2020” was presented to Prime Minster U.Khurelsukh on January 3, 2020 and the cabinet discussed and backed the draft document on January 26.

Today, January 31, Head of the working group Ch.Oyun-Erdene submitted the draft document to Parliament Speaker G.Zandanshatar for having it approved by the parliament.

The Parliament of Mongolia will discuss the draft “Vision - 2050” during its spring session of 2020.

The long term development policy of Mongolia titled “Vision - 2050” has 9 fundamental goals and 50 development targets, which are carefully divided into three groups of actions of 10 years for 2020-2030, 2031-2040, and 2041-2050. Following missions are identified to be achieved, focusing on the vision of “Mongolia becoming a leader with its economic growth and social development and a country that achieved sustainable preservation of its nature, language, territorial integrity and culture”.

1. Shared values of the nation – “Growing as a nation with a deep sense of national identity sharing common values”.

2. Human development - "Bringing Mongolia’s Human Development Index value to 0.9 and to be ranked in the top 10 countries of the World Happiness Index".

3. Life quality and middle class - "Increasing the population share of the middle-income groups sustained by favorable living conditions up to 80 percent by 2050”.

4. Economy - "Stepping over the threshold of developed countries by growing the GDP by 6.1 times and GDP per capita by 3.6 times to USD 15 thousand”.

5. Good governance - "Establishing a good governance with full respect for human rights and justice and zero tolerance for corruption".

6. Green growth - "Promoting environmental sustainability combined with green growth".

7. Peaceful and safe society -"Creating internal and external environment to protect the vital national interests”.

8. Regional development - "Developing in-country regions that have joined regional economic integrations and with sustainable structure of human settlement and competitive qualities".

9. Ulaanbaatar city and satellite cities - "Building people-centered cities with comfortable and environment-friendly living conditions".

Considering all this, emphasis of the long term development policy will be put on creating a nation with common principles and consciousness, improving the systems related to human development, health care, education, family, science, innovation and labor, and fostering middle class growth, engaging in reforms to the social protection and insurance systems, creating an efficient system of affordable housing provision, supporting startup businesses and promoting healthy and active lifestyle.

Owing to the fact that an adequate identification of key economic areas will help paving the way for further growth, creating healthy environment for economy; mining and agriculture driven by balance between extractive and processing industries, as well as manufacturing industry (Heavy and Light and Food industries), energy, transportation and logistics and tourism sectors and creative industry with knowledge-based approaches will be given higher positions.

Moreover, goals to ensure stability of governance, streamline to the distribution of power, and control, and organizational structures of government organizations, to develop e-governance and improve the professional capacity and expertise of civil servants and ethics, to strengthen the civil society-private-public partnership, to reinforce the rule of law and to build governance with no corruption are also incorporated.

The long term policy further encompasses reduction of urban bound migration and population density, implementation of economic policy across the country’s territory arranged into six economic regions, investment in the preservation of national culture, sustainable system of population settlement, inheritance of traditional and natural landscape with a balanced ecosystem achieved to future generations, economic diversification, development of green production and development of capital city Ulaanbaatar and satellite cities.

The full version of the ‘Vision – 2050’ long term policy development policy is made available online to receive comments and suggestions from the public for the document.

Published Date:2020-02-04