The Minister of Trade and Industry, Tareq Kabil , will inaugurate the third session of the "China and the Arab States" exhibition on behalf of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, representing Egypt as a guest of honor this year under the theme of "Friendship, Cooperation and Development" in Yinchuan City, Ningxia Province.

Kabil will also address the 2017 China-Arab Summit on Integrated Development; discussing the ways of joint cooperation between China and the Arab states, and address the China-Egypt Trade and Investment Promotion Conference held on the sidelines of the exhibition; to review Investment and trade cooperation between Egypt and China.

The minister will also participate in the Forum "China and the Arab States for Cooperation in the Automobile Sector" which will discuss the policies adopted in the manufacture of cars in some Arab countries and ways to benefit from the Chinese experience in developing this vital industry in the Arab states.

Kabil will meet with a number of Chinese government officials to discuss means of boosting economic and trade cooperation between Egypt and China and increasing mutual investment between the two countries in the coming period. He will also hold an extensive meeting with the Chinese Development Bank to discuss the possibility of the bank’s participation in financing the Chinese projects to be implemented in Egypt, Especially in the field of transport, electricity, development projects of the Suez Canal axis and the new administrative capital, and projects to raise production capacities agreed between the Egyptian and Chinese sides.