Ministry of Public Security: The number of cars in the country exceeds 300 million The number of cars in 79 cities exceeds one million

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Public Security, the number of motor vehicles in the country will reach 395 million in 2021, including 302 million cars; the number of motor vehicle drivers will reach 481 million, of which 444 million will be car drivers. There are 79 cities in the country with more than one million cars, including more than 5 million in Beijing, Chengdu and Chongqing.

"Xiangyang-made" cars assembled and started (data map) Yang Dong photo

By the end of 2021, the number of motor vehicles in the country reached 395 million, and the number of scrap cancellations after deduction of scrapping and cancellation increased by 23.5 million units over 2020, an increase of 6.32%. In 2021, there were 36.74 million newly registered motor vehicles nationwide, an increase of 3.46 million over 2020, an increase of 10.38%; an increase of 4.6 million over 2019, an increase of 14.31%.

By the end of 2021, the number of cars in the country will reach 302 million. In 2021, there will be 26.22 million newly registered cars nationwide, an increase of 1.98 million over 2020, an increase of 8.16%. There were 10.05 million newly registered motorcycles, an increase of 1.79 million over 2020, an increase of 21.67%, and maintained rapid growth in the past three years.

There are 79 cities in the country with more than one million car ownership, an increase of 9 cities year-on-year, 35 cities more than 2 million vehicles, 20 cities more than 3 million vehicles, including Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing more than 5 million vehicles, Suzhou, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Xi'an more than 4 million vehicles, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Tianjin, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Foshan, Shijiazhuang, Linyi, Jinan, Changsha and other 13 cities more than 3 million vehicles.

By the end of 2021, the number of new energy vehicles in the country reached 7.84 million, accounting for 2.60% of the total number of vehicles, and the amount of scrap cancellation after deduction of scrap cancellation increased by 2.92 million units compared with 2020, an increase of 59.25%. Among them, there are 6.4 million pure electric vehicles, accounting for 81.63% of the total number of new energy vehicles.

The Ministry of Public Security said that in the past five years, the number of newly registered new energy vehicles has increased from 650,000 in 2017 to 2.95 million in 2021, showing a rapid growth trend.

In 2021, the number of motor vehicle drivers in the country reached 481 million, of which 444 million were car drivers, accounting for 92.24% of the total number of drivers. In 2021, the number of newly licensed drivers (driving age less than 1 year) in the country reached 27.5 million, accounting for 5.72% of the total number of motor vehicle drivers in the country, an increase of 5.19 million over 2020, an increase of 23.25%.

In terms of driver gender, male drivers reached 319 million, accounting for 66.32%, and female drivers 162 million, accounting for 33.68%. From the perspective of driver age, 340 million drivers aged 26 to 50, accounting for 70.71%, and 69.66 million drivers aged 51 to 60, accounting for 14.48%. (Zhang Xu)