Termez State University undertakes research addressing government policy and regional planning needs. Its 2025 record includes scientific work requested by the Surkhandarya regional government on desert hazards affecting settlements. University research on industrial investment also has a documented connection to regional government decisions, with an implementation acknowledgement dated January 2025.
The Kattaqum project provides a direct example of government-linked research. In its publication of 26 July 2025, the university states that its Regional Research Centre was working under Surkhandarya regional government letter 04-04/1636 of 11 July 2025. The project examined the effects of moving sand and hot, dry winds on settlements in Termez and Jarkurgan districts. University specialists worked with scientists from the Xinjiang Institute of Geography and Ecology in China to develop scientifically grounded solutions and proposals. The policy purpose was protection of inhabited areas and improvement of environmental conditions.
The investigation involved field assessment and monitoring, remote sensing, mapping and analysis. Its proposed responses included stabilising mobile sand dunes, planning greening measures, establishing protective green belts and selecting vegetation suited to desert conditions. These research tasks inform practical choices about land restoration and protection of settlements. The regional government supplied the formal assignment, while university and international specialists investigated the problem and developed the proposed responses.
The official Telegram channel provides further detail on the research partnership. Post 33997 identifies professors Kaihui Li and Shengyu Li, together with their research assistants, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography. It also records the researchers’ visit to the Surkhandarya Hydrometeorology Centre, where they examined meteorological, hydrological, agroclimatic and environmental observation processes. This brought the investigation into contact with the public institution responsible for regional observational work. The post connects that visit with the same regional-government assignment and the research being carried out in the two districts.
Policy-oriented economic research is illustrated by Feruza Hojikulova’s TerSU study on the statistical assessment of efficient investment use in Surkhandarya industry. The Higher Attestation Commission’s official account identifies TerSU as the institution where the dissertation was undertaken and cites regional government acknowledgement 04-04/42 of 11 January 2025. It records the use of research recommendations in work connected with regional industrial monitoring and investment decisions. The study developed territorial investment-efficiency classifications, an integrated evaluation method and econometric forecasts for 2024–2029.
The official account links these recommendations to the regional decision on industrial capacity and enterprise monitoring dated 30 July 2024, number 552-8-0-Q/24, and to the investment-programme decision of 4 June 2024, number 446-8-0-Q/24. Its investment evaluation brought together financial, economic, quality, risk, social and environmental considerations with regional infrastructure. The January 2025 acknowledgement documents a connection between university research and government planning, with the underlying decisions explicitly dated 2024.
TerSU’s published SDG cooperation account describes a wider research relationship with the ecology and agriculture ministries and regional economic and environmental authorities. It reports university participation in working groups through problem identification, analytical modelling and development of monitoring systems. The account describes predictive analysis for government on land degradation, water-resource efficiency and climate adaptation, as well as geographical information systems used to monitor soil, biodiversity and water indicators. It states that results are supplied to environmental authorities and regional agencies. It also describes university forecasts on solar-energy use in southern regions within national low-carbon development dialogue.
The Regional Research Centre provides an institutional basis for this activity. Its published remit includes preparing analytical information for state bodies, studying regional socioeconomic conditions, conducting sociological investigations, examining public opinion and developing regional strategies. It works with government bodies, local authorities, research institutes and international organisations, drawing on university academics and specialists. Its coverage of public administration, economic development, agriculture, industry and environmental conditions enables research questions to be framed around regional policy needs. University management also reviewed the centre’s activity at the rector-led meeting reported on 29 July 2025.
The university’s public policy catalogue lists a dedicated policy on research undertaken with government departments, titled in Uzbek “Davlat idoralari bilan hamkorlikda siyosatga yo‘naltirilgan tadqiqotlar siyosati”. This published institutional commitment sits alongside the centre’s analytical remit.