Businessman and former Tashkent mayor, Jahongir Ortiqhodjaev unveiled his future projects at a meeting with the President Mirziyoyev Friday.

At the beginning of his remarks, he said that some businessmen were still fearing to voice their real business figures.

"Dear President, now many entrepreneurs have voiced their real business turnover figures nearing $ 500 million, which made you happy. They still fear, but otherwise they all have a turnover of over 1 billion dollars," Ortiqhodjaev said to the laughter of the audience.

In his opinion, thanks to the conditions created in the country, some companies have grown 5-10 times.

Ortiqhodjaev announced the plan to open six new hotels with a total of 1,200 rooms in Tashkent "within one ecosystem." We are talking about hotels under the Wyndham, Hyatt Place, Fairfield by Marriott, InterContinental, Ibis brands, which

"These are 2, 3, 4-star hotels. We have commenced the work. By the end of next year, we will complete them,” he said.

In an interview in March of this year, Artykhodjaev spoke about six hotels that will be opened in the Alfraganus shopping area in Mirabad district, including Holiday Inn Express, Wyndham Garden, and Hilton Garden Inn.

At the current meeting, he also informed the president about plans to open a clinic together with a foreign partner. For this purpose, meetings were held with the largest medical centers in the world in the United States - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, and the Cedars-Sinai Medical Complex.

“All three clinics agreed [to cooperate]. We hoped to get consent from at least one clinic, and then all three agreed to work in Uzbekistan to jointly build a clinic. An exchange of experience and personnel is envisaged. They also agreed to bring professors to train teachers at universities. We plan to start the project in the near future,” the former mayor of Tashkent noted.

He added that a major Chinese company is designing the clinic, and the foreign partner will be the Cleveland Clinic.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said that this clinic s "very necessary for us."

"A lot of our people go abroad, to the Korea Republic, Israel, Russia, where they spent money. I am ready to support the project if one of the leading American clinics comes here and also trains [local personnel]," the head of state said.