In his speech, the President stressed that the party should honestly identify the problems facing the country and persistently eliminate all that hinders its development.

"The main thing is to honestly identify unresolved problems, persistently solve them, set even more ambitious goals and achieve results.

There are a lot of important, important, urgent cases ahead of us, and all that we managed to do is only a foundation, but not a guarantee of further successful development, "the president said..

Speaking about the future of Russia, Putin called for treating it as a young and forward-looking country, and not "as a beloved grandmother," despite a thousand-year history.

"We must make Russia young, looking forward. To achieve this, we need to solve the tasks that we are now talking about: we need to make significant changes in the development of health and education, in the development of infrastructure, "the head of state.

Another vital task is the fight against poverty, which Putin called a threat to the stability and unity of society. "We definitely need to continue working to reduce the number of people who have incomes below the subsistence level, reduce poverty, level and mass, the scale of which poses a threat to the stability and unity of our society," the president said, adding that "the situation should be intolerable , when a person with a demanded profession, qualifying for his work receives a meager salary.

Putin called for making the Russian political system more flexible, capable of adapting to the rapid changes of the modern world.

As for the economy, Russia will achieve that its level has reached and exceeded the world level, the president said..

According to him, Russia should not only firmly gain a foothold in the five largest global economies, but also approach the advanced countries in terms of GDP per capita. And for this "it is necessary to radically update the country's infrastructure," Putin summed up.