Chinese automaker China First Automobile Works Group (FAW) is poised to begin delivering China's first indigenously-developed and -manufactured fire truck.

The company, based in Changchun City in northeast China's Jilin Province, will deliver 106 fire engines to five provinces by the end of Feb. 2011, a FAW official said Monday.

FAW and the Department of Public Security of Jilin jointly developed the high-end fire truck, said Zhao Fangkuan, CPC secretary of FAW.

In recent years, Chinese fire brigades have purchased over 1,500 fire trucks annually, either importing them or buying modified ordinary trucks.

"FAW fire truck parts, including the chassis, are specially designed for the fire-fighting mission, and they are much cheaper than imported fire engines," said Zhao.

FAW expects to expand its annual fire engine production capacity to 1,000 units by 2012.