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China Vehicle Fleet Reaches Nearly 170M in 2008
2 January 2009
Gasgoo. The total number of motor vehicles in China—including cars, motorcycles, trucks and other motor vehicles, hit 169.88 million vehicles in 2008, up 6.33% from 2007.
There were 180.66 million drivers, up 10.23 percent...Private motor vehicles rose by 6.4 percent year-on-year and accounted for 76.14 percent of all motor vehicles, statistics from the ministry’s Traffic Control Bureau showed. The rate of increase rate was down by 4.52 percentage points from last year.
By comparison, the US currently had almost 251 million vehicles registered at the end of 2006—light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and motorcycles—according to data from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The US had 202.8 million licensed drivers at the end of 2006 as well.
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Posted by: philmcneal | January 02, 2009 at 06:25 PM
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holy crap and when you compare the land mass that China has... I'll be surprised how they are going to handle that traffic congestion... ohhhhhh boy!