The electricity price is 4 times lower than the average price paid by industrial customers in developed countries. Second, the country has the most diversified economy in Central Asia. Uzbekistan is the only Central Asian state producing a wide range of modern cars with General Motors, trucks with MAN, highquality agricultural machinery from the minitractors to harvesters jointly with German CLAAS and LEMKEN, South Korean LS Mtron, the region’ s largest producer of chemical, textile, food, building materials, electronics and electrical engineering products. Third, the presence of significant human and intellectual potential meets modern international standards of education. More than half of the population of our country is young people who take the mandatory 12- year education and receive in-depth knowledge of at least 2 modern professions, information technologies, and learn at least two foreign languages. Uzbekistan created a number of branches of leading European, Asian and Russian universities, in particular the British W estminster University and Singapore Institute of Management and Development,
Turin Polytechnic University, Inha University in Tashkent and others. Fourth, the advantageous geographical location and proximity to major markets is another attractive factor of Uzbekistan for foreign investors. The country possesses the largest consumer market in the region with more than 32 million people. It is about half of the total population of Central Asia.
Thanks to well-developed transport infrastructure, enterprises of Uzbekistan have the opportunity to enter the largest and fastest-growing markets in Central Asia and Afghanistan( with a population of over 90 million people), CIS countries( with a
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