Sobyanin is confident that Moscow has become the best city on Earth

Moscow is truly becoming the best metropolis among the world's cities, and this is not just a slogan. This opinion was expressed in a conversation with journalists by the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

“When we began to realize that we could qualify for (the title of) ‘Best City on Earth,’ we made this our strategy,” the mayor said.

According to him, the components of this strategy are a strong economy, a good ecosystem, high-quality, accessible education and health care, as well as convenient and comfortable transportation. “If before these were slogans, now we see that we can handle it,” Sobyanin explains.

He expressed confidence that having a world-class city in the country is a competitive advantage. “This is an asset because it creates completely different volumes of innovation, labor productivity, development dynamics, and where there are big cities in the world, everything is stable,” the mayor emphasized. with the economy”. products are produced in cities with populations of over one million people.

Labor productivity in the Moscow economy, according to Sobyanin, is many times higher than in small cities.

Speaking about the strategy for further development of the city, the mayor admitted that it was built when various tasks facing the municipality were resolved. “The strategy is not something drawn on a blank piece of paper, some bright future is a continuation of our work, our programs, our vision for the city,” the mayor concluded.