Broadcast: The CEO of Neom Nazmi Al-Nasr confirmed that the completion of the first phase of the Neom City project will be completed in 2025.

We intend to launch projects to develop hotel resorts in Neom, and we expect to start opening them after 3 years, he said.

He stressed that "NEOM", the Kingdom's development bet, outperforms Japan's smart city.

Neom has taken a steady, accelerating pace since the launch of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the mega project, the first phase of which is expected to end in 2025, to become the largest project on the Red Sea coast announcing the new civilized face of the Kingdom, which is one of the axes of the Kingdom's Vision 2030.

According to the Latin acronyms, the name of the project means "the new future", and according to its colloquial reference as "Noisa", it refers to the northwest of the Kingdom. The project is an integrated investment city on an area of ​​26,500 square kilometers, with initial investments of $ 500 billion with the support of Saudi Public Investment Fund.

The new city has a stretch of coastline on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba with a length of 480 km, and in addition to its important location linking Africa and Asia and close to Europe, more than 70% of the world's population can reach it within 8 hours or less, in addition to 12 diverse cities and 6 urban agglomerations. In valleys and mountains, a huge harbor, 3 small airports, a large international airport, and a huge industrial area. With this space and advantages, the city is betting on a wide and varied investment space, between tourism, industry, energy and education, and its plan is based on 9 sectors: “energy and water, transportation, biotechnologies, food, technical and digital sciences, advanced manufacturing, living, entertainment, and media,” according to the technical plan. The first phase ends in 2025, and the city is expected to contribute 100 billion dollars to the Saudi GDP by 2030.

Nine economic sectors have been identified that will be included in the NEOM project that constitute in their entirety the core of economic development, and these sectors include the future of energy and water, as the city will depend on natural and inexhaustible sources of energy so that the sun and wind, which are abundant in the city, are the main source of this energy and not the use of this renewable energy is the goal. The only one but even the development of research and studies to find the best for the future of energy and water.

And also the development of the future of mobility, which includes self-driving cars and even unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as the development of airports and seaports. Genetics have become influencing different paths such as medicine, food production and pharmaceutical industries, and this scientific industry that relies on research will be among the areas in which NEOM will compete with the most advanced science.

In the field of food, one of NEOM's goals will be to develop technologies in agriculture, whether using sea water, hydroponics, aerobic or even desert farming, all through a global center for innovation of these technologies.

 

In the field of industry that has entered a decisive stage of development, NEOM will make a big leap in this field, such as the development of 3D printers that facilitate the production process, and robots that do a lot of difficult or dangerous work instead of humans will be the goal and one of the goals of NEOM.

 

Also, the media will have a different future in "NEOM" in terms of its technologies and digital content, from television to cinema, and there is another important aspect in this field, which is the video games industry, which has increased its importance in recent decades, and this field will also fall on the shoulders of the participants in NEOM to bring it to the summit.

 

Also, "entertainment" is an industry in itself. Therefore, NEOM will work on developing recreational activities and events that will reinvest the money inside, whether these are sports or cultural events, or even by developing the facilities that will host these events.

 

Neom will not neglect the field of technical sciences, it is artificial intelligence using computer programs to simulate the mental capacity of humans and techniques of augmented or virtual reality using smart phones or wearable devices such as glasses and contact lenses and data centers that consist of huge centers made up of many huge servers and the Internet of Things. The new generation of the Internet, as well as electronic commerce, are all technical sciences and their future, a major focus of the NEOM project.

 

As for the future of living in that city, it will be at the highest level, whether private housing, hotels, education, safety and security standards for citizens, health care and green spaces.

 

The best human achievement in the field of technology, knowledge, and research will be the goal of NEOM, and therefore it is hoped that it will become one of the most important global economic and scientific capitals, and to reach this, the technical axis will be the main engine for work in NEOM. During it, he announced that NEOM was the best sign of those in charge of NEOM that it was a project that would adopt technology as its focus and main engine.

The use of robots in the project will be the main factor in the growth of the population of Neom, as it will reduce the use of ordinary labor in heavy or routine work, while in return it will increase the number of competencies and skills in various areas of a creative nature and will be attracted in order to devote themselves to innovation to leave non-creative and duplicate works Or the hardship of robots, and that will contribute to increasing income for individuals who will not find competition with that from machines.

 

Likewise, a city like Neom will be the best model for a smart city in terms of management. All services and procedures that the city administration will undertake will be smart services through automation. All transactions, whether in terms of investment or manufacturing, and even in judicial disputes will be electronic, meaning that paper will not be used in this field, in addition to Due to its technical importance, it is very suitable for the environment and sustainable development.

in the same technical field, the city will rely on the so-called digital air, which is free public networks for the Internet, in Neom, no one can be far from accessing the Internet, and there will also be free continuing education on the Internet and new standards in construction to obtain a carbon-free housing and it cannot be ignored Safety and security technologies that will use the highest technology in this field in order for the city’s residents to have the highest level of safety in the world.

 From an economic perspective alone, it is difficult to restructure a community of societies without a cultural restructuring that represents the incubator and backer supporting this modernization path, which means the need for "Neom" and "Kingdom Vision 2030" for an open social and cultural context, and a conscious back that enhances this vision and supports the process of releasing the Kingdom's energies And its goals in another path that was not lost on the mind of the Saudi crown prince, besides the family upbringing, which opened a wide door for him to read and know more openly than the context his surrounding environment allows, the young man with a different modernizing vision is aware that betting on culture is a necessary duty to make the economic bets succeed. According to this vision, he played an important role from his previous position as an advisor to Crown Prince Salman, then his position as crown prince later, in bringing about fundamental changes in the knowledge and cultural structure of the Saudi society, and the gradualness of these changes in a way that does not hurt the traditional values ​​of the society and its conservative orientations, in order to produce an enlightening context. From the interactions of opinions and trends that make up the total social map, without giving priority to one approach over another, this matter resulted in a clear state of movement and development within the fabric of Saudi society within a few years.