W Kazakhstan eyes 26 investment projects in 2025
This was announced by governor of West Kazakhstan region Nariman Turegaliyev, Kazinform News Agency reports.

According to Turegaliyev, the region’s fixed capital investment stood at 712.9 billion tenge, up 4.7%, in 2024. The gross regional product reached 3.4 trillion tenge, a 1.9% increase, in nine months of last year.
Last year’s exports stood at 6.4 billion US dollars, leading to a positive trade surplus, said Turegaliyev, urging to continue to promote manufacturing, as the oil and gas sector accounts for the bulk of the region’s exports. ‘In next five years, the region is to implement 59 investment projects, commissioning 26 this year, he added.
The region seeks systemic measures aimed at promoting SMEs to bring their share in the GRP to up to 40% by 2028.
West Kazakhstan region eyes construction of interdistrict hospitals in Burlinskiy and Kaztalovskit districts as well as major repairs at four health facilities in Uralsk and Karatobinskiy district.
In 2025, the region is to build 17 new schools, of which seven are under construction. Among them are 10 small schools, a 400-place secondary school and six education facilities under the Comfortable School project.
The region secured 42.2 billion tenge of budget funds to renovate 212km of its regional and district roads this year.
During the meeting of the region’s activists in Uralsk, Turegaliyev instructed to ensure the region has full access to clean drinking water.
The region is to hold different events aimed at promoting trade jobs, as Kazakhstan declared the year 2025 as the Year of Trade Jobs.
As earlier reported, Kazakhstan’s Almaty region seeks to generate over 60,000 jobs in 2025.