Egypt Can with Industrialization Conference Kicks off

The fourth virtual symposium of "Egypt Can with Industrialization" conference, entitled "Industrial Finance Strategy" was launched on Saturday to discuss industrial finance strategy and policies.

The conference was attended by Immigration Minister Nabila Makram, Nevin Jama, Minister of Trade and Industry, Mohamed Maait, Minister of Finance, Engineer Hisham Tawfiq, Minister of Public Business Sector and Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund.

The "Egypt Can with Industrialization" conference is sponsored by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

“Egypt Can with Industrialization” is a conference organized by the Ministry of State for Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Affairs, in cooperation with the Ministries of Trade and Industry, Military Production, Planning, the Public Business Sector, as well as the Arab Organization for Industrialization.

Makram stated that the President’s sponsorship of the conference increases it with honor, and affirms Egypt’s desire to advance the industry sector, adding that the president was always providing his sponsorship to the five previous sessions of the conference, noting that the current conference is its sixth.

Makram pointed out that these conferences come within his directives to link Egypt’s scientists and inpiduals who made international achievements in the country’s issues and problems and used them to solve these issues and problems as well as developing Egyptians lives in all fields, as a part of the goals of Egypt’s 2030 Sustainable Development Strategy.

Makram added that as a result of the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a number of preparatory seminars for the conference were held via video conference in several fields, the first was “Industrial Investment and Egyptian Economy challenges”, the second “The textile Industry”, and the third was “Localization of the car industry in Egypt,”.