Hisham Tawfik, Egypt’s Minister of Public Enterprises, said on Monday that the North African country is looking to China for cooperation and assistance for the manufacture of electric cars. Tawfik cited the Chinese experience and technological advances in the sector as an advantage to working with the Chinese.
During a meeting with the Chinese Ambassador in Cairo, Liao Li Qiang and ministerial commercial advisor, Han Bing, Tawfik stated that the government is willing to partner with a Chinese company to build the first electric car factory in Egypt.
“Our country aims to advance this industry to firstly satisfy the domestic market and then export to the global market, benefiting from the agreements signed with other countries in this area,” stressed the Egyptian minister.
The Chinese ambassador promised full support and cooperation with Egypt’s Ministry of Public Enterprises, praising progress in relations between the two countries.
In coordination with the Egyptian Embassy in Beijing, Tawfik will meet next September with representatives of the Chinese Car Manufacturing Union and several electric car manufacturing companies, to learn of developments in the industry and explore the possibility of collaboration.