By B.Nyamsuren

Members of the Mongolian Government held a joint meeting with provincial and capital city governors and chairs of local representative councils at the State Palace, aimed at presenting the Government’s 2026 policy priorities and ensuring unified understanding and coordinated implementation at the local level.
Prime Minister G.Zandanshatar delivered a keynote address titled “One Mongolia – One Direction: The Orderly Reform Movement,” outlining the Government’s policy direction and reform agenda. He emphasized that local authorities play a decisive role in translating national policies into concrete actions that directly reach citizens.
The Prime Minister recalled that when the Government was formed six months ago, it faced serious economic and governance challenges, including weakened state capacity, declining public trust, slowing economic growth, rising inflation, currency pressure, and risks to fiscal stability. He noted that decisive measures, including the introduction of a temporary special regime at Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi JSC, helped increase coal production and sales by 1.6 times, contributing to a USD 2 billion rise in foreign exchange reserves within a few months.
As economic stability began to recover, the Prime Minister stressed the need to steer growth in the right direction by restoring public confidence and implementing deep governance reforms. He highlighted that Parliament has approved the country’s 2026–2030 Five-Year Development Framework, which identifies eight core reform pillars: human development; economic structure; values and social development; environment and green growth; governance and digital transformation; national competitiveness; regional development; and science, technology, and artificial intelligence.
He also introduced the Government’s “300-Day Stabilization Plan,” launched at the beginning of the year, aimed at ensuring economic growth benefits citizens, operationalizing the National Wealth Fund, and advancing fair distribution of natural resource revenues. The Prime Minister underlined that effective implementation of these measures depends heavily on proactive engagement by local authorities.
Concluding his remarks, the Prime Minister called for internal reforms within the public sector, announcing plans to abolish more than 1,000 regulations and procedures that are inconsistent with the law or create unnecessary bureaucracy. He urged local leaders to work closely with citizens and play an active role in implementing government policies at the grassroots level.

Source: Zuuniimedee № 10 (7752) January 16, 2026

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