I believe that many people have found out when they are in college that the students around them either have a driver's license or are already on the way to take a driver's license. According to incomplete statistics, There are about 300 million people with driver's licenses in China, and the process of testing driver's licenses is very easy, but buying a car must be considered from many sides, so China's car sales have stagnated, what is the reason for this phenomenon?
Globally, China's driving school study fees are relatively high, the driving level of students is strictly approved, and in the future, the procedures for taking driver's licenses will only increase. In this context, everyone is taking a driver's license, and there will only be more and more people buying cars, but why has the sales of domestic cars declined since 2018? Automobile companies have also begun to worry about sales, and the reason why everyone does not buy a car is not only that there is no money, but also the following two thoughts.
First, road congestion
With the progress and development of society, in our daily life, cars can be seen everywhere, at the peak of the automotive industry, the sales volume every month is not less than hundreds of thousands, and the car has entered every household. According to official data, China's 1.4 billion people, in 2019 car drivers reached 397 million people, accounting for 91.26% of the total number of motor vehicle drivers in the country, many people took precautions, they took the driver's license early.
One of the biggest reasons why cars can't be sold is road congestion. With the vigorous development of the automobile industry, more and more families will use the car as a daily way of travel, compared with electric vehicles and shared bicycles, the car is large, easy to congestion on the road, for office workers, driving to work is easy to be late, if you encounter road congestion, it will also affect the mood of the day.
Nowadays, the huge number of cars has brought a lot of pressure to the road, in order to alleviate this situation, some areas implement the provisions of road restrictions, and one day a week will not be able to drive out, which is also a loss for drivers. Although new energy vehicles are not limited to traffic, due to the influence of traditional automobile concepts, everyone still holds a wait-and-see state for this new technology.
Parking spaces in each community are limited, and I believe that many car owners have not found the parking space after returning home from work for a week around the parking lot. In addition, the traffic management law on the relevant provisions of the car regulations are particularly many, a careless, illegal is a common thing, compared with the shared bicycles and electric vehicles are much easier, can be free shuttle in the road, almost will not encounter the situation of blocking the road, it is not easy to violate the traffic law.
Second, the disadvantages
Buying a car is easy, but driving is not an easy task, taking the driver's license does not mean that you can drive smoothly, even if you successfully drive a car, you will encounter various troubles. In some big cities, there is often road congestion during the morning rush hour after work, and sometimes, the driver directly parks the car near the company and takes the subway or bus home, so that the use of buying a car is not great, but it will bring a lot of trouble.
Many people buy cars for the convenience of travel, you can quickly reach the destination, but in fact, in daily life, there are not many cases of using cars, and cars have become a kind of decoration, which cannot be of great use. Recently, some of the distance is not as good as riding a shared bicycle, when the road is congested, the owners are eager to park the car directly on the road, take the bus home, for this consideration, many people have given up the idea of buying a car.
Third, the cost is large
Many Chinese start not to buy a car is also the reason for the large cost, such as a car of two or three hundred thousand, many people can buy it in full, and after buying it home, they found that the original long road of spending money has only begun. As long as you go out, you will burn oil, one or two thousand fuel costs per month must be inevitable, for ordinary office workers, this is not a small expense, equivalent to a whole month's rent, such an economic situation, buying a car is not necessary.
Oil prices are rising almost every year, and the data on rising oil prices released by the National Development and Reform Commission at the end of 2021 shows that the prices of gasoline and diesel in China have increased by 140 yuan and 135 yuan per ton respectively, and the oil of each label has increased by an average of 0.11-0.12 yuan / liter. In 2021, the overall domestic oil price is in an upward trend, the oil price has been adjusted 25 rounds, of which 15 times are rising, many people who buy a car see this situation and regret buying a car.
It's easy to drive home, and if you have to drive out every day, you'll find that the price of oil is not cheap at the end of the month! In addition, but also to buy insurance for the car, regular maintenance, every year to carry out car inspection, this series of costs have been a lot, even in some places to park are charged, if you just go out to buy a dish, there is no need to drive, not only to work, or home, have to find a parking space to feel troubled.
In addition to these, as long as you drive out, you can not avoid bumps, for most residents, their salary to maintain a car is a big expense, after buying a car, a year down the year can not save much money. Compared with buying a car, the needs of life and the need to buy a house often occupy the first place, buying a house at least to spend about a million savings, if you take thousands or tens of thousands of wages a month, in the deduction of mortgages, there is no extra energy to buy a car.
Moreover, in recent years, the global financial risk has increased a lot, especially in the United States, which has repeatedly fallen into financial crises, and the domestic economy has also been a little sluggish. Coupled with the impact of the epidemic, many companies have declared bankruptcy, residents have lost their jobs, and wallets have shrunk a lot. Prices are rising little by little, but wages are not rising, and many people have given up buying cars against the backdrop of a very unoptimistic economic situation at home and abroad.
Since the 1990s, my car sales have been ranked first in the world, and even under the influence of the global crisis in 2008, it has not changed the hot state of car sales. At that time, the domestic car was just popularized, many rich people regarded the car as a symbol of identity, and later the living standards of residents were greatly improved, and people's comparison psychology was caused, and the car became the exclusive property of almost every household.
epilogue
After years of continuous growth, car sales finally came to an abrupt end in 2018. According to data from the China Automobile Association, there was a negative growth in china's auto market sales in 2018, and many people speculated that the number of cars may be saturated. The number of vehicles in the market is 300 million, but this data is only a conservative estimate, and it may actually be more, at least it can reflect the saturation of the number of cars in China, and the slowdown in growth is sooner or later.
In the current situation, it is not easy to change the slowdown in automobile sales, at least in first- and second-tier cities. People either have cars or don't need cars at all, and now China's auto market can only be placed in fifth- and sixth-tier cities and rural markets. I don't know if you have ever bought a car? Feel free to share your experience below!