In 2020, Belarus' Hi-Tech Park (HTP) demonstrated yet again that it is one of the key driving forces of the Belarusian economy, BelTA learned from the HTP press service.
“In 2020, the Hi-Tech Park posted exports worth $2.735 billion, up by 25% year-on-year. The total output reached Br7.4 billion, up by 43% over 2019. This is a record high in the history of the HTP,” Director of Belarus' Hi-Tech Park Vsevolod Yanchevsky said.
The United States and the EU were the main buyers of IT products and services of the HTP resident companies accounting for about 90% of the total export. The United States, Cyprus, the UK, Ireland, and Russia were the major export markets.
The Hi-Tech Park's share in Belarus' GDP exceeded 4% in 2020. The park employs around 1.5% of the country's workforce. The HTP resident companies paid Br418 million in taxes in 2020, which was up by 38% over 2019. The Hi-Tech Park created more than 10,000 new jobs last year and now employs almost 70,000 specialists.
The Hi-Tech Park continues expanding. It registered 236 new resident companies in 2020 and another 65 in March 2021 bringing their total to 1,021.
In 2020, foreign direct investments in the Hi-Tech Park totaled $331.7 million, up by 26% year-on-year. The HTP is home to 107 R&D centers of foreign corporations, 23 of them joined the park in 2020.
The HTP resident companies made new advances in various international rankings.
The 2021 Global Outsourcing 100 list compiled by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals featured several HTP's resident companies: A1QA (Quality Technologies CJSC), Itransition CJSC and SolbegSoft LLC. The list also incorporates some foreign R&D centers: Ciklum, IBA Group, Intetics and Artezio.
The Belarusian application Flo became the world's most popular in the App Store in 2020 and the most downloaded in the Health & Fitness category. The Flo application was also featured in the Apptopia ranking, becoming the 5th most popular application in the USA and placing among 10 most profitable applications.
Another resident company – SayGames – made it into December rankings of the analytical platform SensorTower, placing 7th in the world in terms of game installations and 6th in terms of downloads in AppStore.
According to the annual Financial Times FT 1000 ranking, the HTP resident company Gismart was Europe's fastest-growing business in the gaming industry. Having posted almost 9,000% revenue growth, the company secured the 6th position in the list of Europe's fastest-growing businesses.
The Belarusian application Easy Bloggers, developed by the HTP resident Bloggers Lab, headed the list of the most popular apps at Product Hunt 2020.
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Hallo Radio Belarus,
ja der Dieter Leupold ist jetzt auch hier im Gästebuch vertreten... Super, bald sind wir alle zusammen hier im "Belarus Hörerclub", Dieter könnte 1.Vorsitzender werden und Jana und Elena Ehrernmitglieder, Helmut Matt Schriftführer, Alfred Albrecht Beisitzer und ich mache Hausmeister:-) Lutz Winkler wie fit bist Du bereits wieder, für Dich finden wir auch eine nette Aufgabe:-) Beste Grüße und ein schönes Wochenende.
Dietmar
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Lieber Dietmar,
das stimmt, für alle finden wir im Hörerklub eine Aufgabe!:)
Liebe Grüße und einen guten Start in die Woche!
I recently learned my surname is not Polish, but Belarusian. I heard you on shortwave in the past and am so happy to listen online in English. We hear nothing about Belarus here in the US so I am so glad to learn about your country. Keep on broadcasting in English. I also joined the Hoererklub on Facebook as I can understand German. If you have information or a station pennant, I will very much appreciate it.
Sheryl Paszkiewicz, 1015 Green St, Manitowoc WI 54220 USA
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Also, in case you like sports, here's the link to an international competition of ours "My Greetings to 2nd European Games" http://www.radiobelarus.by/en/content/games_eng
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Hello from Birmingham United Kingdom!
My name is Michael.
I really enjoyed listening to your program on the Hotbird satellite 13e. I very much love listening to your news and current affairs.
Ask you to send me a small gifts. I hope you guys are all good.
Lots of love from UK
Especially enjoying learning about Belarus. History and culture
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Michael,
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Hello. I am a new listener to your English service. I listen on the Radio 1 News app. I enjoyed listening to the news. Do you have any information on shortwave broadcasts you can send me?
Thank you,
Joe Cosimo
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Hello,
My name is Younes Lazazi, I am from Algeria.
I am very happy that radio Belarus has started broadcasting in Arabic.
I would like to receive stickers and printed matter of the station and the Arabic and french services if possible.
My address:
Monsieur Younes Lazazi 14 rue Maza Boualem El-Harrach 16009 Alger Algérie
Thank you.
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we're happy that you like our boradcasts. We'll send you some of our printed materials via mail in the nearest future. 73!
Dear English Service Radio Belarus,
Greetings to all staff and listeners of English Service of Radio Belarus. We listen your webcast program. Your program quality is very nice. Your website is colorful & documented. We liked your programs, News, and Current Affairs Program. We are interested about Culture, life style of Belarusian people, historical places, Tourist attraction and destination of Belarus.
Please send some program schedule, sticker, view card, Promotional items of Radio Belarus for our club members and students.
We are waiting for your reply.
With best wishes,
SHIVENDU PAUL
President
Metali Listeners' Club
India
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thank you very much for listening to us! Your club is among our most dedicated listeners. We will send you some of our promotional products as soon as possible. 73!
Hello!
Did the arabic programmes start? I don't see them on your Internetcast schedule page. Thanks!
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Hello! The Arabic programmes have been on air since October, every Monday. You can see the schedule and listen to them on our Arabic page http://radiobelarus.by/ar
FM transmitters and frequencies:
Rakitnitsa - 106.2 MHz
Hrodna - 95.7 MHz
Svislach - 104.4 MHz
Heraniony - 99.9 MHz
Braslau - 106.6 MHz
Miadzel - 102.0 MHz
Satellite broadcasting:
see satellite parameters here
