Fergana and China's Runking Automotive Plan Joint Projects

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — Fergana region has moved closer to a concrete automotive manufacturing partnership with China's Runking Automotive Group, following talks at the Tashkent International Investment Forum that produced agreed measures and practical steps for advancing joint initiatives.

Governor Khayrillo Bozorov received a delegation from Runking Automotive Group led by Director Zheng Guochuan. The two sides exchanged views on projects planned under their prospective cooperation and concluded the meeting with a defined set of next steps to push the joint initiatives toward implementation.

The source material does not specify the nature or scale of the projects under discussion, but Runking Automotive Group's core business spans commercial vehicle manufacturing and automotive components — segments that align with Fergana's existing industrial base and with the broader vehicle assembly activity already taking shape in Uzbekistan under Russian and other international partnerships.

The engagement adds another Chinese industrial name to Fergana's growing roster of international interlocutors at the forum, where the region's governor has used the event as an intensive investor-outreach platform spanning South Korean construction giants, U.S. financial institutions, Afghan trade bodies, and Iraqi ministerial counterparts. China's automotive sector presence through Runking reinforces a pattern of Chinese manufacturing capital actively seeking production footholds in Central Asia's most populous and industrially active regions.