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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