Authorities in Liuzhou, the biggest industrial city in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, have pledged to speed up the development of its ambitious automobile base, according to a senior leader of the city.

"The automobile base will be able to manufacture more than 1 million motor vehicles on an annual basis before the end of 2015," Zheng Junkang, Party chief of Liuzhou and deputy to the National People's Congress, the nation's top legislature, told China Daily on the sidelines of the annual meeting.

"Its gross regional product will reach 60 billion yuan ($9.8 billion) by that time, and tens of thousands of new jobs will be created," he said, noting the base was the first "mega" project launched by the autonomous region's government for the nation's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015).