Chinese carmakers set up plants in Syria
Sputnik reported that Chinese carmakers have been setting up manufacturing plants in Syria following the withdrawal of Western investors, while local business also hopes to see the opening of the Russian car production factories in the Middle Eastern country. Mr Bilal Shammout executive director of the car factory, said that "This plant was built in 2012, just before the start of the war. We were forced to evacuate soon after we started the manufacturing [business]. In 2016, the area was liberated [from militants], but when we came back, we found out everything had been destroyed. Chinese investors offered their assistance in rebuilding the plant adding that now the plant produces about 10 cars a day.
Mr Mager Halyawe, a factory worker, explained that "The assembly technology is very simple: the frame goes first, then the engine, then the transmission, the gas tank, the electrical engineering."
The car production process is organised according to Syrian and Chinese standards.
Mr Shammout added that "We assemble more of certain [car] models in response to demand. Everything you see in the showroom, at the workshop, is the cars that were assembled here.”
Source : Sputnik