China Machinery Industry Federation executive vice-chairman Cai Weici introduced on January 21 that China clean vehicle research capability is expected to be strengthened.

Cai said on a press conference of 2007 Machinery Industry Economic operation Condition, China self-manufactured new clean vehicles such as electric vehicle, hybrid-powered vehicle and fuel cell energy vehicle have come into being, of which the fuel cell vehicle has attained world-class level; electric vehicle and hybrid-powered vehicle realised mass production and purified electric vehicles have been exported abroad in batches. China has so far formed independent development capabilities on national 4 standard emission engines, and more than 100 species natural gas vehicles have been listed on China new vehicle products catalog. More than 70 Chinese cities have applied natural gas vehicles, the volume of the market has attained more than 0.3 million units.

According to the introduction of Dong yang, vice-chairman of China Association of Automobile Manufactures, among China auto exportation, China independently developed brand vehicles has been in the leading position.

According to statistics, China's auto output in 2007 had firstly surpassed 8 million, reaching accumulative 8.88 millon and up 22.2% year-on-year. From 2003 to 2007, China's auto output increased from 2 million to 8.88million, up 22.02% year-on-year, the average growth rate up 20% in seven consecutive years. From the point view of the product structure, the growth rate of commercial vehicle firstly exceeds passenger car. Among commercial vehicles, the output growth of heavy trucks up 77%, whose sales amount has attained 69%.

Source : english.chinabuses.com

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