85 million Chinese car ownership exceeds Japan

The status of China’s auto giants has been further consolidated. The data released by the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (calculated on the basis of the number of cards, this is the most authoritative data) shows that the number of motor vehicles in China has reached 199 million, of which more than 85 million vehicles, and more than 2,000 new motor vehicles are added each year. 10,000 cars. The data of 85 million vehicles means that China’s current vehicle ownership has surpassed 75 million vehicles in Japan, second only to the United States, which owns approximately 250 million vehicles, and has become the world’s second largest country in vehicle ownership.

The number of vehicle owners in the US and Japan does not increase. The Chinese owners are mainly buying cars for the first time, which is a pure increase for car ownership. While owners of developed countries, such as the US and Japan, also purchase new cars while also phasing out used cars, they have retained their cars. In terms of quantity, there has been no increase, or even a negative growth, which has made it easy for China to go on the go-ahead.

As of the end of 2008, the vehicle ownership in the United States was 250 million vehicles. However, in 2009, the country’s car ownership volume declined for the first time since statistics began in 1960. In 2009, under the influence of the shrinking automobile market and rising oil prices, the sales of new cars in the United States were only around 10 million. The US revoked contracts in the year under the stimulus of the government’s “refundable old car replacement” policy. 14 million cars. As of the end of 2009, the United States’ car ownership has dropped from 250 million to 246 million.

For the decline in the number of American car ownership, some research institutes said that this can only be seen as a temporary phenomenon caused by the economic recession. The U.S. car ownership has reached a certain degree of saturation, and it is expected that the U.S. car ownership will further decrease by 2500 by 2020. 10,000 cars.

Japan’s car ownership is also gradually decreasing. The results of the survey on the popularity of family cars (including micro-cars) announced by the Japan Automobile Inspection and Registration Information Association show that as of the end of March this year, the number of cars owned by each household in Japan was 1.086, which was a decrease of 0.009 vehicles compared with the same month of last year for 3 consecutive years. cut back. As of the end of April 2009, the number of motor vehicles in Japan, including mini-vehicles and two-wheeled motorcycles, was 79,142,882, a decrease of 169,722 units over the same period of the previous year. According to reports, this is the first time that the number of car ownership has fallen for five consecutive months since Japan began to record this statistic in April 1946. This may be related to factors such as declining population, rising oil prices, and consumers starting to alienate cars.

The rapid growth of car ownership in China in the past decade has been the first decade of the 21st century. According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, at the end of 1949, the country had only 50,000 civilian vehicles. At the end of 1978, the number of civilian cars in the country reached 1,358,400, including 259,900 passenger cars and 1,017,700 trucks, which were 26 times, 15 times, and 30 times that of 1949 respectively. Since the late 1990s and the 21st century, China’s passenger car industry has developed rapidly. In 2008, the country’s car population reached 24.38 million, and private cars reached 19.47 million, equivalent to 1.5 cars per 100 people.

As of the end of 2009, China’s car ownership has reached 62 million. If we include three-wheeled vehicles, low-speed trucks, and agricultural vehicles, as of the end of 2009, China's civil vehicle ownership has reached 76.19 million, an increase of 17.8% over the end of the previous year. Among them, the number of private cars was 52.18 million, an increase of 25.0%; the number of civilian cars was 31.36 million, an increase of 28.6%, of which private cars were 26.05 million, an increase of 33.8%.

The automobile society has brought a lot of problems. The rapid growth of new car sales in China in recent years has greatly increased the number of car ownership. According to this momentum, car ownership exceeds that of the United States and becomes the world’s top car ownership country. It will also be in the past 10 years. The time is achieved. At present, the vehicle ownership in the United States is about 250 million vehicles. The gap between China and China is about 160 million vehicles, which is 8 years in accordance with China's current annual growth rate of 20 million new vehicles.

Wang Fuchang, deputy director of the Department of Equipment Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, spoke at the China Automotive Industry Development International Forum on September 5, stating that by 2020, China’s car ownership will exceed 200 million.

Xu Changming, director of the Information Resources Development Department of the National Information Center, delivered a speech at the China New Energy Automobile Development Summit Forum. He said that China is a big automobile country and its sales growth rate is alarming. He also revealed that in recent years, China’s car ownership has increased year by year, and according to conservative estimates, China’s ownership will reach 490 million vehicles in the future.

Xu Changming also announced a set of energy consumption data. In 2009, the sales volume of Chinese automobiles was 13 million, which already accounted for 22% of the world's total sales. Energy consumption also reached 22% of the global total energy consumption.

Since China entered the automobile society, the consumption of petroleum has been enormous. The huge amount of car ownership makes China's energy supply more tight, and the development of new energy vehicles will become the main direction of development in the future. According to the "China's 2010 Clean Energy Technology in Development" report released by the Ministry of Science and Technology, as of the end of 2009, the country has demonstrated and promoted nearly 5,000 new energy vehicles, and by 2011, it will be able to produce 150,000 complete vehicles and key components. In 2015, the number of new energy vehicles in China will grow to over 1 million vehicles. By 2020, the new energy vehicle market will reach 10 million units.