He made the comment to reporters during a tour of the plant.

SAIC Volkswagen has said the new plant will have an annual capacity to make 300,000 cars and will begin production from 2020. It will make VW's luxury Audi AG brand cars.

(Reporting by Yilei Sun and Brenda Goh; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

Stocks treated in this article : AUDI AG, Volkswagen AG, SAIC Motor Corporation