Inspection Progress: Shanghai and Construction

inspection progress: Tesla's new factory in China is located in Shanghai's Lingang zone, which is a new area that was just added to the Shanghai Free Trade Zone on Tuesday, according to Global Times China. The new area encompasses 119.5 square kilometers. It has only been 10 months since the land grant contract for the factory was signed, which shows local authority's efforts to foster a better business environment in Shanghai, domestic news site thepaper.cn reported on Tuesday. The Lingang government on July 11 set up a special group to hasten the inspection progress of the Gigafactory's construction projects, in order to meet its target of finishing inspection when the construction is done, the report said. It has only been seven months since the workshop construction began, and the factory is expected to kick off production at the end of the year. Tesla updated on its official Weibo account on August 7, stating that the construction of its Shanghai factory was going smoothly. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.