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Vehicle Ownership

In the first quarter of the year, 9.66 million new motor vehicles, including 7.5 million cars, were registered in China, the Ministry of Public Security said on April 6.

According to the ministry, this brought the total number of motor vehicles in the country to 378 million, including 287 million cars.

Newly registered new-energy cars reached 466,000, accounting for over 6 percent of total registrations. China currently has 5.51 million new-energy cars.

Altogether 8.39 million people obtained the driver’s license in the first quarter. The number of licensed

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