CHINA: The Chinese government is keen to export thousands of electric vehicles (EVs) to the Philippines as part of a broader goal to tap markets in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) for one of its hottest export products at the moment, a key official here said.

'The goal of our industrial park is to build a production base covering over 6.6 million square meters ... Now the main market for us is the southern and western part of China,' Lin Shaohua, deputy director of Gangbei District, Guigang City Government, told reporters.