OREANDA-NEWS. In the fourth quarter of 2017, Geely will open a BelGee plant in Belarus, geared towards producing Geely cars for the Russian market. It is already known that the flagship crossover Geely Atlas will be the first to leave the conveyor of the new enterprise, reports the press service of "Geely-Motors".

The BelGee plant in the city of Zhodino is geared towards the production of Geely cars mainly for the Russian market, and also the delivery of cars to other markets. The expected production capacity of the plant at the first stage will be 60 thousand units per year. In the future, the company plans to increase its production capacity. A significant part of the components will be delivered to the BelGee plant by manufacturers cooperating with Volvo plants.

The total area of the plant is 1.18 square km. On its territory there will be located welding shops (area more than 9 thousand square meters), assembly (the area more than 16 thousand square meters) and coloring (an area of about 8 thousand square meters). As noted, Geely, who initiated the opening of the BelGee automobile plant, became the first major Chinese brand to decide on the construction of an enterprise of this scale in the territory of the CIS.