Over 73m privately owned automobiles on Chinese roads as of 2011

Gasgoo.com (Shanghai April 2) - There were a total of 73.26 million privately owned automobiles in the whole of mainland China as of 2011. The number, which came from statistics were collected by Gasgoo.com (Chinese), is over seven and a half times greater than the respective figure from 2002. Annual growth of the number of automobiles in the country from the ten year period from 2002 to 2011 averaged over 25 percent.

Of China's over 73 million vehicles, 22.59 million were located in the East China region, which includes Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian and Shanghai. 30.8 percent of the country's automobiles were located in the region. 14.71 million automobiles were located in North China, which is made up of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, equivalent to 20.1 percent of the country's total number of automobiles. The amount of automobiles in South China, Central China and Southwest China totaled 9.21 million units, 8.99 million units and 7.79 million units, respectively. Automobile sales growth rates were largest in Northwest China and Central China.

Guangdong possessed the largest number of automobiles, 7.45 million units. It was followed by Shandong, which reported having 7.08 million automobiles. Automobile sales growth rates were largest in Qingdao, Xinjiang and Jiangxi. Meanwhile, Beijing was the municipality with the most automobiles, possessing 3.87 million automobiles on its roads. It was followed in the rankings by Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing, respectively.