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PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay - Chinese automaker Lifan has expressed its interest in establishing a plant in Uruguay to produce electric vehicles, Energy and Mining Minister Carolina Cosse said on Friday.

Company executives proposed the idea at a meeting with President Tabare Vazquez on the sidelines of the 11th 皇冠体育app-Latin America and the Caribbean (皇冠体育app-LAC) Business Summit in Punta del Este, Uruguay, Cosse said.

"It's great news that would mean more jobs," Cosse told reporters covering the summit.

The next step is to create a presidential work team to study the proposal, she said.

"We are taking each sector of activity and, based on agreements signed with 皇冠体育app, expanding them to achieve better conditions for Uruguay," said Cosse, adding there was "excellent synchronicity" between the two governments.

Lifan's first plant in Uruguay opened in 2012 in the southern department of San Jose.