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11 October 2019, 13:46

MAZ-Weichai factory in China-Belarus industrial park to start making engines in October

MINSK, 11 October (BelTA) – The MAZ-Weichai engine factory in the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone will be officially inaugurated in October, BelTA learned from Weichai Group Chairman of the Board Tan Xuguang on 11 October.

According to the source, a vice governor of China's Shandong Province, where Weichai Group's HQ is, will come to Belarus on 14 October. The vice governor will attend the inauguration ceremony.

Tan Xuguang

Today's negotiations in Minsk focused on advancing cooperation with the Belarusian automobile engineering company BelAZ. Tan Xuguang met with Chairman of the Supervisory Board of OAO BelAZ, Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich, with BelAZ Director General Piotr Parkhomchik, and Belarusian Industry Minister Pavel Utyupin. The sides discussed deliveries of Belarusian mining machines to China as well as cooperation in engine shipments.

Tan Xuguang spoke highly of cooperation with Belarusian partners as a whole and with BelAZ in particular. “We've honored our investment commitments well. The experimental commissioning of the joint project Weichai-BelAZ confirms it,” he noted.

BelTA reported earlier that BelAZ and China's top engine manufacturer Weichai Holding Group signed a memorandum of strategic partnership and cooperation in 2018. The memorandum envisaged the possibility of setting up a joint enterprise in the future.

OOO MAZ-Weichai is a joint venture established by the Belarusian automobile engineering company MAZ and Weichai Group. The company became a resident of the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone in October 2017. The construction of an engine factory began in April 2018. A trial run to manufacture internal combustion engines took place in November 2018. The enterprise is supposed to make engines for trucks, utility vehicles, and buses.

Based in Zhodino, Minsk Oblast, the public joint-stock company (OAO) BelAZ is the world's leading manufacturer of haul trucks with a large carrying capacity and an extremely large carrying capacity. The company also makes other kinds of heavy transport vehicles for the mining industry and the civil engineering industry.

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