YANGON, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The official daily New Light of Myanmar on Friday called for shaping Myanmar as an industrialized nation by operating all factories at full swing to manufacture marketable products.
Noting that products are being manufactured in industrial regions and industrial zones, the paper stressed in its editorial that priority is to be given to manufacturing the quality products.
Besides the over 600 state-owned factories which are operating at full swing, the editorial attached importance to industries of the private sector, saying that a total of 18 industrial zones, which are private-operated, have been established across the country and the number of industries hits over 60,000 with the small and medium-scale industries.
The editorial cited that some industrial regions are constituted with heavy truck factories, farming machinery factories, machine and machine tools factories and technical training schools,
It disclosed that the No. 3 Automobile Assembling Factory under the Ministry of Industry-2, which was opened in Magway industrial region in December last year, has set a plan of manufacturing vehicles and auto parts.
Under a contract with India's largest truck and bus manufacturing plant -- Ta Ta Motors, the Myanmar factory is to assemble about 5,000 trucks of 20, 25 and 30 tons and 1,000 Nano luxury cars annually as reported earlier.
The editorial also revealed that Mandalay Industrial Zone-1 is manufacturing many light trucks, jeeps and zone jeeps, saying that electric cars for family use are being produced in the zone.
It emphasized that continuous efforts are to be made for manufacturing the marketable products on a wider scale.
According to local report, altogether 82,785 motor vehicles have been produced by Myanmar's 18 industrial zones up to June, 2010.
