(VOVWORLD) -Vietnamese automaker Thanh Cong Group inaugurated its automobile plant on Wednesday at Viet Hung Industrial Park in Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province. Quang Ninh’s first automobile plant is a major milestone for the province and for Vietnam’s automotive industry.
 Delegates cut the ribbon to inaugurate the Thanh Cong Viet Hung automobile manufacturing plant. (Photo: VGP) |
The plant will manufacture commercial vehicles under the Skoda brand, one of the oldest automobile manufacturers in the Czech Republic.
At the inauguration, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien called on the two groups need to spread their development model through cooperation programs and plans to support domestic enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, and engage them in the production stages and supply chains.
“In addition, it’s necessary to organize more training courses for Vietnamese partners, thus improving the production capacity and competitiveness of Vietnamese enterprises,” said Dien.
The plant has a designed capacity of 120,000 vehicles per year.