Cairo- This past week was full of presidential consultations on incentivising the local industrial sector, the national educational system and the development of Sinai.
On Thursday, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi highlighted the importance of localising industries.
Localising industry and transferring technologies, the president said, are major priorities for the Egyptian government, especially when it comes to co-operation with global partners.
He said the same things would be a preferential factor in contracts for industrial projects in Egypt, especially as it has whatever it takes for the localisation process and the transfer of technology to take place.
The president noted during a meeting with President and CEO of South Korea’s Hyundai-Rotem Yong-Bae Lee that Egypt looks forward to co-operating with the South Korean company in many industrial fields, especially in the heavy industry.
On Tuesday, the president received Japanese experts supervising Egyptian-Japanese schools in his bid to get better acquainted with their experience since the start of their work in Egypt.
President Sisi praised the experts’ efforts in this vital national project which is part of the state strategy to develop the Egyptian human capital from an early age through a comprehensive education system that balances the academic side with innovation.
This aims to create balanced personalities and raise generations on ethical values that prepare them for positive interaction with society, the president said.
During his meeting with the Japanese experts, President Sisi also discussed the efforts they make to lay down the school administration concepts already in place in Japan.
A day earlier, President Sisi called for sustaining the thrust of development in Sinai.
He made a special reference to land reclamation projects in the peninsula.
Such projects, he said, will increase the size of farmland in central and northern Sinai and set up development and residential communities in these two areas.
On Sunday, the president hailed Sinai Liberation Day as a special occasion enshrined in the mind of each and every Egyptian.
It is an inexhaustible spring of the meanings of pride, struggle, devotion and belonging, the president said.
In a nationally-televised statement, marking the 39th anniversary of the liberation of Sinai, President Sisi also paid tribute to the event as an everlasting model of defeating despair and frustration for the sake of restoring dignity militarily and politically.
Egypt celebrates Sinai Liberation Day on April 25 every year.
