As a truck with a FAW logo slowly rolled off the production line in an assembly workshop in Coega, South Africa, on Friday, China FAW Group, announced that the plant had produced 10,000 vehicles since operations began.

The automaker, based in Changchun, Jilin province, set up its assembly plant with an area of 87,000 square meters, in the Coega Industrial Development Zone in July 2014.

It is the first self-operated overseas plant of FAW and is selling its products in all the major cities in South Africa.