BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Longrich, a well-known enterprise in China specialized in the daily chemical and health care products, held a ground breaking ceremony of establishing a factory in Lekki Free Zone of Nigeria on May 8.
At the ceremony, Huang Xigong, the general manager of Lekki Free Zone, granted the new plant start-up certification to Xu Zhilun, the vice president of Longrich, marking the start of construction of Longrich's new factory in Lekki Free Zone.
The new factory will cover 40,000 square meters including factory area, office area and living area, with the first phase investment of 20 million U.S. dollars. The factory will produce health, cosmetics and cleaning products and it will be a first-class intelligent factory in Nigeria and even in Africa. (Contributed by Zhang Jun, Tong Wei, tongwei@xinhua.org, edited by Zhang Aifang, zhangaf@xinhua.org)