FAW hits 10,000 vehicle mark in S. Africa

As a truck with a FAW logo slowly rolled off the production line in an assembly workshop in Coega, South Africa, on Friday, China FAW Group, announced that the plant had produced 10,000 vehicles since operations began.

The automaker, based in Changchun, Jilin province, set up its assembly plant with an area of 87,000 square meters, in the Coega Industrial Development Zone in July 2014.

It is the first self-operated overseas plant of FAW and is selling its products in all the major cities in South Africa.

After eight years, FAW Vehicle Manufacturers South Africa has made outstanding achievements in management, product quality and social benefits, which received high praise from the local government as the "model of China-South Africa cooperation".

The group has created more than 3,850 job opportunities for local residents and provided various kinds of training courses for more than 2,000 people, sending a large number of high-quality workers into the local automobile industry.

Zhang Siyu contributed to this story.