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• The capital Ulan Bator and the entire surrounding region contains about 50% of the Mongolian populace and is therefore the centre of Mongolia.
• Mongolia expects, after years of self-discovery and stagnation, an annual economic growth of 8% to 12% for the following years
• This growth has not only occurred because of the great resource deposits, but also because of the service sector.
• Currently, Mongolia exports mainly copper, gold, zinc and cashmere. The principal customers are China and Canada. The most important supplier countries are Russia, China and Japan. The main imports are petroleum products, machines, construction equipments, cars, electronic products and food.
• In 2008, trade with Germany reached a volume of 82 million Euros, with an upward trend. Mongolia exported goods with a value of 15.4 million Euros to Germany, especially textiles (cashmere) and animal products. With 66.6 million Euros, the imports from Germany far surpassed the exports. Imports from Germany were mainly motor vehicles and machines. Mongolia has a strong interest in deepening the trade relations and, for example, to introduce technologies for coal liquefaction in the building sector and in agriculture.
• Because of the historic development, there are no religious or ethnic tensions in Mongolia. Mongolia is a landlocked country with just two neighbours. To lessen the dependency on its direct neighbours Russia and China, Mongolia is pursuing the so-called “third neighbour policy”.
• Mongolia is a parliamentary democracy with a multi-party system and a separation of powers into legislative, executive and judiciary. The constitution that came into effect in 1992 is modelled after the federal constitution of Germany and the constitution of France.
• In light of this, the German government founded the IPAS-Projekt via the „gtz“.

Aims of the IPAS-Projekt:

• Strengthening local capacities to make it possible to use foreign direct investments in the mineral resource sector and in the infrastructure sector.
  
• Cooperation with institutions such as the Mongolian NDIC (National Development and Innovation Committee) and key ministries such as Ministry of Mining and Natural Resources, Foreign and the Finance Ministry.
  
• Construction of a necessary diversification of the economy and structuring of the administration in order to optimise the use of revenues from the mining sector.
• Construction of capacities for an ecologically effective increase of the domestic added value of the primary product sector.
  
• The KHAN Initiative 2030 formulated by the project combines aspects such as technology and know-how transfer in the mining sector, development of technological competence and qualification of raw material processing.
  
• Support of the State Property Committee (SPC) on establishing a special PPP Department.

• The project cooperates with the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the Dutch Water Operators Partnership Program in implementing two pilot projects in the South Gobi region.