In his speech during the opening proceedings of the third annual conference for investments and leading business, entitled as: "Upper Egyptian: Start Up, HE Engineer Tarek Quabeel, Minister of Commerce and Industry, assured that the Ministry will offer 200 factories of 200 metres in each Upper Egyptian governorate, and Assiut will be on top of them, to serve small and intermediate projects. The event was attended by Engineer Yasser Al-Desouky, Governor of Assiut, Prof. Ahmed A. Gaeis, Assiut University President, Dr. Ayman Adul Moneim, Sohag Governor, and Gen. Mohamed AL Zamlout, Governor of New Valley, in addition to a number of officials and representatives of international corporations and academicians.