On April 13, at the latest executive meeting of the State Council, a series of top-level arrangements were made to promote the healthy development of consumption, foreign trade and financial markets.
In terms of consumption, the meeting pointed out that consumption has a lasting pulling force on the economy, which is related to ensuring the improvement of people's livelihood, and it is necessary to implement the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, coordinate efforts, take into account both near and far, stabilize current consumption, release consumption potential, and first propose to respond to the impact of the epidemic and promote the recovery and development of consumption.
Among them, as one of the key areas of the consumer market, the automotive industry, this meeting especially proposed to encourage similar automobiles, home appliances and other bulk consumption, all localities must not add new car purchase restriction measures, has implemented the purchase restriction of the gradual increase of incremental indicators, and support the consumption of new energy vehicles and the construction of charging piles.
It is worth noting that not long ago, Guan Qingyou, president of the Institute of Financial Research, also suggested that the car purchase restriction policy in Beijing and other places be moderately relaxed to stimulate trillion-level domestic demand. "At present, a total of 8 regions such as Beijing and Shanghai are implementing car purchase restriction policies. We have calculated the number of people who want to buy a car, and if we add up the number of people who participated in the latest period of lottery, queuing, auction and other car purchases in various places, the total number of people is as high as 7.8 million. He said.
According to the latest data released by the China Automobile Association, 2.23 million new vehicles were sold in March this year, down 11.7% year-on-year, and the passenger car and commercial vehicle markets fell by 0.6% and 44% respectively. However, the new energy sector, as an emerging market, still maintained a rapid growth trend, with a total of 480,000 units sold in March, accumulating 1.26 million units, up 114% and 139% year-on-year.