MIIT to terminate regional protective policy of new energy vehicles

Gasgoo.com (Shanghai, May 28) -“At present, MIIT indeed plans to clear local protective policy.” On May 25, XU Yanhua, vice general- secretary of China Automobile Industry Association tells reporter during interview. The plan of MIIT aims clearance of new energy automobile popularities.

The action of MIIT is based on State Council vice president MA Kai research in Shenzhen in April this year. At that moment, MA Kai holds “New Energy Popularization Forum” that the next step of new energy automobile development relies on 8 things, which is listed top one of them is “break automobile region protective policy.”

A participant tells media that it is very possible for government publishing series regulation to stop local new energy automobile purchase catalog. Unpublished local protective policy will be stopped as well. MIIT definitely will accelerate region protective policy clearance. The fastest will be the end of May, no longer than the middle of June.

XU Yanhua tells reporter about the above comment that “it is still unsure about the policy implement time schedule. It is a very complicated producer, and different place has different situation. It is not possible to solve all questions by couple of documents because of new energy automobile popularization different.” XU Yanhua says the only confirmed direction is there will be unified catalog national wide. It normal will not allow regional catalog and marketing entrance.

At present, there are only Beijing and Shanghai owning regional new energy catalog. Some analyst say it actually separate automobile companies outside by some technical barriers. For an example, Beijing publishes and . It confirms that Beijing will only subsidy pure electronic car only, which is stop Rowee, JAC and BYD etc. outside. Meanwhile, Shanghai has implemented , which excludes some non-Shanghai companies outside as well.

Behavior of Beijing and Shanghai are noticed by senior governor. MA Kai points out during the second research down to Shenzhen for new energy car popularization “some governors still watch with inadequate realization.” MIAO Xu, director of MIIT, tell reporter later during interview there are unreasonable region protective policy existed. He criticizes some cities “do not allow plug-in hybrid power automobile enter.”