[UAH] Chinese Factory Tries to Sell Trucks to Wary Ugandans
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Chinese Factory Tries to Sell Trucks to Wary Ugandans
By Hilary Heuler, VoA News, June 25, 2013
A truck on display at Foton's showroom in Kampala, Uganda, where the Chinese company plans to open a manufacturing plant, June 20, 2013. (VOA News – H. Heuler)
KAMPALA — A Chinese company has plans to build Uganda's first auto manufacturing plant, a move that could boost industry in a country that has always relied on more expensive imports. But carmaker Foton must first overcome Ugandans' profound suspicion of Chinese products.
African roads have traditionally been plied by second-hand cars, some in appalling condition. But a Chinese company, Foton, has set out to change that. Earlier this month, the company announced that it would be building a new manufacturing plant in Uganda, with plans to export Ugandan-made cars to neighboring countries.
Foton already operates a similar plant in Kenya, but for Ug
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