CAIRO, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi instructed on Wednesday the Egyptian government to move offices to a new administrative capital, the presidency office said in a statement.
"The Egyptian government will start the process in December of moving offices to a new administrative capital for six-month trial," said Bassam Rady, spokesman of the presidency.
The move will start after the ongoing preparations for the government buildings and headquarters are finished, he said.
Being built some 50 km east of the capital Cairo since 2015 on an area of 714 square km, the new administrative capital is planned to accommodate 6.5 million people, starting with half a million in the first stage, making some space for congested and overpopulated Cairo with about one fifth of the country's 100 million population.
The new capital will be home to most government buildings, including the cabinet headquarters and ministries, in addition to the parliament.
The government also expects the new capital to create around 2 million job opportunities.
