120 MILLION privately owned cars in China


Chinese state news agency, Xinhua, has announced that China has 120 million privately owned vehicles on the road today. According to Xinhua, 61. 25% of the total number of vehicles in use in China are privately owned, the other 38.75% being state owned vehicles, (that number alone is a staggering number of cars owned by the govt!)

The statistics come from Chinas ‘Traffic Administration of Ministry of Public Security’ a lengthy title I’m sure you’ll agree, the Traffic Admin Ministry also said China has 160 million registered drivers of automobiles (so thats C1 and C2 licences). Drivers aged 26-35 account for 37.88% of total Chinese motor vehicle drivers and drivers aged 36-50 account for 40.67% of the total number.

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Ash

Ash came to China at 18 on a whim and never left. Some 10 years later he collected a degree and a family along the way and now focuses his time on watching the Chinese car industry develop. He has witnessed the market change from being minor backyard market in to the world's biggest and most important market for all car manufacturers. You can contact or connect with him via Linkedin by clicking the 'Website' link.

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  1. avatar Slade says:

    The stat I would like to see is not the age of the drivers, but rather a breakdown of the length of time these drivers have had licences. They didn’t all get them when they were 16 years old, ya know!?!:)

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