We need to improve the housing and utilities sector further and eliminate the existing shortcomings, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said today at a meeting held in Polotsk to discuss the development of housing and utility services in Belarus. In Polotsk, the president was shown an exhibition of municipal equipment, including equipment for boiler rooms. Alexander Lukashenko drew attention to the need to expand the use of local fuels, which is important from the point of view of energy imports substitution. The head of state instructed to simplify the terms for the acquisition of land outside large cities, as their value has significantly increased in the current difficult epidemiological situation.