The event was opened by Chairman of the Committee Mikhail Kogan, who said, “Today we have gathered at the meeting precisely in order to summarize interim results, share experience, discuss the difficulties that entrepreneurs had to face in various industries and find ways to solve them a year after the start of the pandemic.”

Representatives of the business community and entrepreneurs spoke at the meeting. During the meeting, the participants discussed the impact of the pandemic on the development of domestic electronic instrument making, as well as on industrial production, and touched upon the topic of poor-quality training and degradation of competencies in the modern world.

The main purpose of the event was to discuss the current problems of entrepreneurs employed in various industries, develop proposals for government bodies to expand existing support measures.

At the end of the event, the Chairman of the Committee thanked all the participants in the meeting and expressed the hope that through joint efforts of business and the state, small and medium-sized businesses in Russia will be able to resolve many issues..