Shenzhen in 1985
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View attachment 1625698One in every 3-4 people in China has a driver's license, and 77 million licence holders don’t have car
Source: International Finance News
2019-06-27 10:44:26
As of the end of June, the number of
driver licence holders in the country has reached 396 million, with an average of one person per 3-4 people having a driver's license. The number of motorists in the country exceeds the number of motor vehicles by 707 million, a rough calculation, and 77 million people are at There is a state of no car.
Recently, the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security of China released the latest data. The data shows that in the first half of 2018, the national motor vehicle consumption level continued to remain high, the number of motor vehicles continued to grow, and the number of drivers continued to grow at a high rate.
The automotive industry continues to grow
According to data released by the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, in the first half of 2018, the number of
motor vehicles in the country reached 319 million, and the number of newly registered motor vehicles reached 16.36 million, which was higher than the registration volume of 15.94 million in the same period of last year, a slight increase of 2.6 year-on-year. %, of which the car ownership reached 229 million, and the number of newly registered cars in the first half of 2018 reached 13.81 million.
With the acceleration of the urbanization process, in the past year, nine cities with more than one million cars have been added. As of the end of June, there were 58 cities in the country with more than one million vehicles, including 26 cities with more than 2 million vehicles. Car ownership in 7 cities including Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Shenzhen and Zhengzhou. It has exceeded 3 million vehicles.
With the improvement of people's living standards, the number of small passenger cars and micro passenger cars (hereinafter referred to as private cars) registered in the name of individuals has maintained a sustained and rapid growth. According to statistics, in the first half of 2018, the number of private cars reached 180 million. Vehicles accounted for 78.6% of the total number of vehicles, and the monthly average increased by 1.66 million.
According to public information, as of the end of 2017,
China’s total population reached 1.39 billion, indicating that one in four people has motor vehicles on average, while the number of cars is relatively small. On average, one out of every six people has a car, and an average of eight Only one person has a private car.
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