Two days after the President’s Address “Topical Tasks of Kazakhstan in a New Historical Cycle”, the state began breaking it down into deadlines and responsible bodies [9][10]. On 29 October the Government named dates for the coming months and for 2027 [1], and on 30 October the Kurultai Bureau divided the tasks among committees [2]. Meanwhile in Bishkek, at a forum on interregional cooperation, Kazakhstan’s prime minister recalled the goal of 3 billion dollars in trade with Kyrgyzstan [7][11]. The three stories meet in two places: roads and the border.
30 October
- 110,000 tenge
minimum wage from 1 January 2027 - 3 years
the proposed moratorium on inspections of small and micro businesses - 7 of 8
checkpoints on the border with Kyrgyzstan that are in the Zhambyl region - 2 November
the day Kurultai deputies leave for the regions
Based on the issue’s materials
- 110,000 tenge
Government: deadlines instead of slogans
At its meeting on 29 October the Government, chaired by Olzhas Bektenov, reviewed measures to implement the Address [1]. By the end of the year a list of “People’s Construction” projects is to appear, from local roads and utility networks to schools and hospitals, reflecting the needs of the regions; the plan is to involve domestic producers as far as possible [1]. By 20 November the Government and the National Bank must work out measures to coordinate fiscal and monetary policy; by 1 December the digital systems for assessing families’ circumstances will be integrated [1]. From 1 January 2027 the minimum wage will rise to 110,000 tenge, and the three-year budget will provide for raising the pay of district doctors and medical staff by up to 40% [1].
Some items belong to 2027: finishing the modernisation of road border checkpoints, launching the Bakhty–Ayagoz railway line, starting the widening of the Kokshetau–Petropavlovsk highway and beginning construction of a second airport in Astana [1][3]. Bektenov recalled that the President had set the goal of turning Kazakhstan into a Eurasian transport and logistics hub [3]. In the Address the President proposed declaring next year the Year of Nationwide Large-Scale Construction [4]. How much of the budget all this will take is not stated in the published reports.
Kurultai: each committee gets its part
The Kurultai Bureau, chaired by Aibek Dadebay, distributed the Address’s instructions among committees [2]. The relevant committees were told to take up a new Civil Code, amendments on the special legal regime in the city of Alatau and a package of changes to tax legislation [2]. In considering the budget, deputies were reminded of the minimum-wage increase, and in working on the bill on children with special needs, of inclusive-education infrastructure [2]. A three-year moratorium on inspections of small and micro businesses from January 2027 will be worked out together with the Government; that means it is still a proposal, not a decision [2].
At its own meeting the Government told the Ministry of National Economy, together with Atameken, the business ombudsman and deputies, to discuss the same moratorium [1]. It shows the executive and legislative branches working on one question in parallel: the Government gathers business opinion, the Kurultai prepares the legislative ground. All committees were told to take part in drawing up a long-term strategic document on the country’s priorities, and “People’s Construction” was named a priority for each of them [2]. The first meeting of the Public Chamber under the Kurultai is to be devoted to the Address, and from 2 November deputies will go to the regions [2].
Roads: who answers for the result
The most concrete overlap between the two documents is roads. According to Bektenov, the President assigned the Ministry of Transport responsibility for all road projects and the state of the road surface, and the prime minister told the Working Group on Reforming the Road Sector to work out measures to strengthen the responsibility of contractors and technical supervision [3]. The TV channel 24KZ reported as early as 28 October that the President had demanded better quality in road construction and an end to the passing of responsibility between state bodies [5].
For its part, the Kurultai told the committee on regional and infrastructure development to concentrate on rural areas, logistics infrastructure and road quality [2]. On 29 October that committee, chaired by Amirbek Ospanbekov, discussed the Address’s infrastructure tasks with representatives of ministries [6]. Kurultai deputy Meirkhat Kasymbayev, as Kursiv relays, explains the poor roads by saying that the standards were designed “for Zhiguli” while standards “for Mercedes” are needed [3]. That is a deputy’s assessment, not a ministry’s conclusion, but it shows that what is under discussion now is not the repair of individual stretches but the standards themselves.
The border: where roads meet trade
The road theme continues at the border. In Bishkek on 30 October, at the Second Forum of Interregional Cooperation, it became known that trade between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan grew by 33% in 2025, to 2.4 billion dollars. Since the start of 2026 it has grown by another 20% [7]. The prime minister recalled the goal of 3 billion dollars; the Kyrgyz side, as 24.kg writes, names the deadline: 2030 [7][8]. The Zhambyl region, which has seven of the eight checkpoints on the Kazakh–Kyrgyz border, was named one of the key centres of border trade; a project for an industrial trade and logistics complex is under way there [7].
These very checkpoints are what the Government intends to modernise by 2027 [1], and the Kurultai Bureau took into work the bill “On the Development of Border Territories” and set the deadlines for the relevant committee’s opinion [2]. The three documents do not refer to one another, but they describe one stretch of ground: the faster a truck clears the border and the better the road to it, the more realistic the figures spoken about in Bishkek. As of 30 October none of them states how much money, and by when, will go specifically to border infrastructure.
What remains unknown
So far priorities and deadlines have been published, but not sums. There is no final list of “People’s Construction” projects, no text of the border bill and no decision on the moratorium on inspections. These decisions will be taken in the coming weeks: the Government promised the list of projects by the end of the year, and deputies will return to the bills after trips to the regions. For readers, what matters is to watch what these plans become in the budget and in specific laws.
