Minister of Housing Mostafa Madbouly has arrived in the French capital, Paris, to participate in BATIMAT-Paris exhibition for constructions and building, Invest-Gate reports.

Minister Madbouly said that nine Egyptian companies are participating in the exhibition, during which he visited a number of booths to learn more on the recent technologies in the sector of construction and building material.

A sum of 72,000 visitors and participants from around the world attended the exhibition.

The minister also met with French officials and discussed a number of construction issues such as recent developments in building intelligent cities, noting that Egypt is currently constructing  13 new cities nationwide.