Anhui Jianghuai Automobile a file Co, one of China's top 10 automakers, will soon have its first light-load truck assembly plant in Africa.

To be based in Ain Temouchent province of Algeria, the plant will have a capacity to assemble 10,000 light trucks each year, after the completion of the first phase.

The automaker, which is more widely known as JAC, declined to reveal when the plant will be finished and put into use, but said "it will not be long".