The factory to make cars in Borisov District is to be built by 1 July 2019. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko signed the relevant decree on 16 January, the press service of the Belarusian leader told BelTA.

The document has been passed with a view to enabling favorable conditions for the production of new kinds of automobiles in Belarus. The decree envisages the implementation of an investment project to establish an enterprise to assemble cars in Borisov District, Minsk Oblast.

The investment project includes the construction and commissioning of a factory to make cars in addition to the construction and commissioning of internal and external engineering and transport infrastructure facilities. The project will be implemented in line with the memorandum on advancing cooperation in car manufacturing. The memorandum was signed by the Belarusian Industry Ministry and the Chinese corporation Geely. The deadline for building the factory is 1 July 2019.

The Belarusian-Chinese joint venture BelGee has been chosen to design and build the factory and the internal and external engineering and transport infrastructure facilities. Founded by the Belarusian automaker BelAZ, the Chinese company Geely, and the private joint-stock company Soyuzavtotechnologii, BelGee is a resident company of the free economic zone Minsk. The company has been established for the sake of manufacturing Geely brand cars.

The municipal capital construction enterprise UKS Borisov is the customer in having the internal and external engineering and transport infrastructure facilities for the factory designed and built taking into account the relocation of the existing engineering networks from the construction site.