OREANDA-NEWS. A Chinese investor intends to build an agricultural machinery assembly plant in 2022 on the sites of the Amuro-Khinganskaya advanced development territory in one of the Russian regions.

"The Amurprom Chinese investor is planning to implement within the framework of the ASEZ another project to build a plant for the assembly of combines, tractors, and agricultural equipment", Sokolova said. The plant will produce 50 pieces of corn harvesters, the same number of tractors of two grades, as well as discs, plows, soil cutters, seeders, rollers, sprayers. According to Sokolova, the investor is ready to invest more than 237 million rubles in this project. The company is planned to be built in 2022, 57 new jobs will be created.

She noted that the Heilongjiang Provincial Transport Investment Corporation will be the main investor in Amurprom projects. In this region, agricultural projects are being implemented with the participation of Chinese companies. Vegetables, crops, soybeans, which are mainly exported to China, are grown.