ZES-Maluku: Choice international concocts a project for the assembly of vehicles
After the implementation of the Industrialization Master Plan of the Democratic Republic of Congo, companies are scrambling to settle in the pilot special economic zone of Maluku to benefit from various facilities.
Among these companies is Choice International, which specializes in the automotive industry and has proven itself in Nigeria.
This Chinese company intends to quickly set up its vehicle assembly plant in the pilot special economic zone of Maluku, announced Thursday July 28, Diana Chen of Choice international and the group CIG Motors Ltd as well as the China-Africa Economic Council, to the Minister of Industry, Julien Paluku Kahongya.
Happy to hear this good news, the Minister of Industry provided details on the Industrialization Master Plan which subdivides the Democratic Republic of Congo into 6 industrial spaces, each with its own economic profile.
The former governor of North Kivu also returned to the process of creating special economic zones.
Speaking of the electric battery industry, Julien Paluku Kahongya said that the DRC is the best destination in the world today, thanks to its strategic minerals which are involved in the manufacture of batteries and electric vehicles.
The director of cabinet of the Minister of Industry, Jean-Dieudonné Kavese, underlined that a roadmap to accelerate the installation of this Chinese company in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been set up.
“It was discussed with Minister Paluku that we could soon put in place a roadmap that will allow us to be pragmatic. We have just been told that in this roadmap, within 350 days, the first plant can be operational with the production of the first vehicle and that as a first step, it starts with the creation of the company in the DRC and that if they have an order for 1000 vehicles, they are already ready that they can bring these vehicles here to Kinshasa and while these vehicles will be there, they should already open a store where they will start to have spare parts and at the same time have a space in the special economic zone where they will start assembling these vehicles”.
At this meeting, Claude Ibalanky, the coordinator of the National Monitoring Mechanism of the Addis Ababa Agreement and some members of the office of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister attended the meeting.
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