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On October 29, BAIC Motor Co., Ltd. (Foton) held a ceremony in the city of Salam in the northeast of Cairo, the capital of Egypt, to officially deliver the first two electric buses to Egypt. In the future, 48 more will be delivered in mid November. This is the largest list of electric vehicles in Egypt so far. Li Wei, director of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress, Liao Liqiang, Chinese ambassador to Egypt, as well as many Egyptian government department heads and people from all walks of life including the Ministry of military production, the Ministry of transport, the Ministry of electricity and renewable energy attended the delivery ceremony. Li Wei said in his speech that at present, China has become the world's largest new energy vehicle market, and China's new energy vehicle industry and technology have occupied a place in the world. Egypt is a big country of energy and automobile consumption. The promotion of passenger cars in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities is a reasonable measure to improve air quality and reduce fossil energy dependence. One belt, one road, the Beijing municipal government will continue to support enterprises in infrastructure and livelihood improvement. In his speech, Mohamed said ASAR, Minister of military production of Egypt, said that with the joint efforts of both sides, the Ministry of military production of Egypt has carried out fruitful cooperation with the Chinese government and companies. In the future, Egypt will continue to strengthen cooperation with China, accelerate the localization of electric vehicle production, and promote the development of local electric vehicle industry in Egypt. "At present, the Egyptian government is actively promoting the development of new energy automobile industry, and plans to launch a package of new energy development policies," said Ma rentao, vice president of Foton Motor Co., Ltd. We are very interested in this and are willing to participate in it. We hope to build Egypt into our core market in West Asia and North Africa, and at the same time meet the demand of Egypt market, radiate the surrounding market. " According to the introduction, the delivered model is Foton 12m pure electric bus, which has the advantages of high efficiency and comfort, economy and energy saving, green safety, etc., and will be mainly used for the bus line from Cairo to the new administrative capital in the future. In addition to buses, Beiqi Futian also sells various models in Egypt, including minibuses. Over the past decade, it has sold more than 10000 models.