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The opportunities offered by the Recovery Plan, the tangible and intangible infrastructure plan, energy, tourism development and industrial policies. These were the topics discussed by the President of the Region Christian Solinas, who closed the session dedicated to Sardinia by the Innovation Days organized by Il Sole 24 Ore. The intervention of President Solinas was articulated on various topics, starting with the strong impact that the pandemic also had on the economic and productive fabric of the island, particularly in the tourism sector and in the life of small and medium-sized companies in Sardinia. . Despite the historical difficulties that negatively affected the Sardinian economy in previous decades, President Solinas stressed that in the pre-Covid phase the situation in Sardinia was characterized by a weak strengthening of the productive economic system, with a low unemployment rate. at 14.7 percent, a slight improvement over the previous year. There was no lack of encouraging signs indicative of a positive evolution, especially in the tertiary sector, and in particular for our tourism industry, which, Solinas emphasized, in February registered an increase in reservations of more than 7% compared to 2019. At the end of the blockade, the president recalled, Sardinia had proposed a contagion prevention model that would have limited to the maximum the possibility of spreading the virus in Sardinia, allowing a peaceful development of the tourist season and offering our region the opportunity to present itself as an ideal land for vacations. A model that Sardinia was unable to implement, but which in the following months proved useful and appropriate. Being an island, Solinas recalled, we would have had the opportunity to use an effective tool to limit viral circulation, certainly not a limitation of the rights of citizens, but a guarantee for everyone, Sardinians and tourists. Many today – the President recalled – agree with us; However, now we must not think about the past, but about how to counter this second wave and the economic pandemic that could follow. It is certainly necessary to focus on the seasonal adjustment of our tourism, said President Solinas, and that is why we are looking with great interest at how to use the new European resources, which we will finally have available from 2021, for the adaptation of our infrastructure system, useful to carry out an increasingly prolonged tourist season and no longer exclusively directed to the beauties of our coasts. We intend to enhance those aspects of identity and uniqueness that Sardinia encompasses, capable of seasonal adjustment by improving our immense archaeological and ethnographic heritage. Sardinia also invests in innovation and technology, which is the most valid tool today, Solinas recalled, to attract international investment and allow the reduction of the limitations of the local market. In the past, the president recalled, Sardinia has been seen as a place of opportunities thanks to specially subsidized financing plans in some sectors, such as large industry; opportunities that are no longer feasible today. Therefore, we must move to a different scenario and create different development opportunities. This does not mean that we should leave the industry. If it is true that the season of large subsidized investments has ended, of large industry with a strong environmental impact, it is also true, continued Solinas, that there is no economy in the world that does not include industry in its GDP basket. traditional. Therefore, we must understand this in our future, and the needs of this sector, which remains fundamental, cannot be ignored. The great Italian miracle, the great recovery of our economy, was determined by the ability to produce things that the world likes. It was the industrial miracle of the iron and steel industry, metallurgy, manufacturing carried out by large industrial groups, along with the construction boom. Therefore, the right balance must be found. In this sector, strong support can come from the Recovery Plan, which will intervene in the areas of large industries with 75 billion that will be directed towards green interventions. Sardinia, said President Solinas, has many projects. One, particularly important, concerns the disused mines of Sulcis, for the production of the noble gas Argon, in a plant second only to the present one in the United States, in Colorado. Also for Portotorres the green evolution is already in fact, with the passage from heavy chemistry to fine chemistry, aimed at the pharmaceutical industry and the transformation of medicinal plants. Interventions that can restore these large productive areas, which in some cases have consumed land, leaving a legacy of unemployment and despair. Finally, said President Solinas, it is necessary to focus more and more on our young people and on training: helping our talents to remain in Sardinia as protagonists. Ours, Solinas stressed, is one of the few Regions that finances research in Universities, with substantial resources that replace transfers from the state. It is an important investment for our future. We must develop and refine more and more the connection between university education and labor demand. Finally, President Solinas recalled the two fundamental requests of Sardinia also in relation to the use of funds from the Recovery Plan: an extraordinary infrastructure plan that includes not only transport networks but also energy networks, and territorial continuity. effective that allows Sardinia to break the gap determined by insularity and allows a system of connections with certain frequencies.
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