Chinese vehicle manufacturer, Great Wall, is expected to invest a total of US$70m in a new assembly plant in Moscow, according to ITAR-TASS news agency.

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The plant is expected to produce around 50,000 vehicles over a three year period.


However, last 15 March, Reuters reported that Great Wall would build a plant with 50,000-units capacity in the town of Yelabuga in Tatarstan at a cost of US$100m.


It is not clear if the Moscow plant is in addition to this plant, but we would expect not.


Great Wall sold 6,600 vehicles in Russian in 2005.


During 2005, Avtotor, based in Kaliningrad, assembled a pilot batch of three Great Wall vehicles, but this appears to have come to nothing.

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