The two-side governments as well as the personages held various celebrating activities at the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relation between China and Syria.

"The Chinese automobile touring exhibition in Syria" hosted by the Chinese mechanical industry union and C.C.P.I.T (China council for the promotion of International Trade) were inaugurated at Syria on the 21th of April.

On the solemn and impressive opening ceremony at Damascus, Mrs. Zhou Xiu hua, the Chinese ambassador indicated that both China and Syria not only hold the mutual trust in politics but also make complement to each other in trading, and the tour exhibition of Chinese brand automobile in Syria is an important event for Sino-Syria trading.

The president of Syria Chamber of Commerce indicated that Chinese people are our friends, the Chinese automobile is accepted by Syrian consumers with its reliability and competitive price, may Chinese automobile manufacturers provide even more well-worth products.

In order to enable this tour exhibition to show the friendship of two countries, the organization committee invited the Chinese famous brand automobiles that could represent the level of China automobile industry such as "YI QI","DONG FENG","FU TIAN","JIANG WEI" and so on." Chang-an"," Jiang ling"," Ha Fei"," Chang He" etc. to participate this exhibition with their the mini-buses and cars; the medium size and large size buses of Yutong Group can be called " the brigade of the dragon" among the Chinese famous automobile brands.

Yutong Group was enabled to be on the behalf of its domestic bus field participating this tour exhibition in Syria with it outstanding performance in the international market.

It is reported, the total export of Yutong Group in year of 2005 reached 0.14 billion USD, the number of the buses that applied to customs is 1100 sets with the customs charges of 80 million USD, which share half China market of exporting medium size and large size buses.