Ministry of Public Security: National motor vehicle ownership will reach 395 million in 2021, and new energy vehicles will increase by 59.25% year-on-year

According to statistics from the Ministry of Public Security, in 2021, the number of motor vehicles in the country will reach 395 million, including 302 million cars; the number of motor vehicle drivers will reach 481 million, including 444 million car drivers. In 2021, there will be 36.74 million newly registered motor vehicles nationwide and 27.5 million newly licensed drivers.

The number of newly registered motor vehicles was 36.74 million, a year-on-year increase of 3.46 million. By the end of 2021, the national motor vehicle ownership reached 395 million, and the number of scrapped and cancelled vehicles increased by 23.5 million or 6.32% over 2020. In 2021, there will be 36.74 million newly registered motor vehicles nationwide, an increase of 3.46 million or 10.38% over 2020, and an increase of 4.6 million or 14.31% over 2019.

The number of cars has exceeded 300 million, and motorcycles have grown significantly. By the end of 2021, the national car ownership will reach 302 million. In 2021, there will be 26.22 million newly registered vehicles nationwide, an increase of 1.98 million or 8.16% over 2020. Among them, 4.04 million trucks were newly registered, a decrease of 120,000 or 2.88% compared with 2020, showing a downward trend. 10.05 million motorcycles were newly registered, an increase of 1.79 million or 21.67% over 2020, maintaining rapid growth in the past three years.

There are more than 1 million cars in 79 cities across the country. There are 79 cities in the country with more than one million cars, an increase of 9 cities over the same period of last year, 35 cities with more than 2 million vehicles, and 20 cities with more than 3 million vehicles, including more than 5 million vehicles in Beijing, Chengdu, and Chongqing, and more than 5 million in Suzhou and Shanghai. , Zhengzhou, Xi'an, more than 4 million vehicles, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Tianjin, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Foshan, Shijiazhuang, Linyi, Jinan, Changsha and other 13 cities more than 3 million vehicles.

The number of new energy vehicles reached 7.84 million. As of the end of 2021, the number of new energy vehicles in the country will reach 7.84 million, accounting for 2.60% of the total number of vehicles. After deducting scrap and cancellation, the number of new energy vehicles will increase by 2.92 million, or 59.25%. Among them, there are 6.4 million pure electric vehicles, accounting for 81.63% of the total number of new energy vehicles. In 2021, 2.95 million new energy vehicles will be newly registered nationwide, accounting for 11.25% of the total number of newly registered vehicles, an increase of 1.78 million or 151.61% compared with the previous year. In the past five years, the number of newly registered new energy vehicles has grown rapidly from 650,000 in 2017 to 2.95 million in 2021.

The number of car transfer registrations continues to grow. In 2021, the national public security traffic control departments will handle a total of 30.48 million motor vehicle transfer registrations. Among them, there were 29.23 million car transfer registrations, accounting for 95.90%. In the past five years, the ratio of the transfer registration of used cars to the number of new car registrations has risen from 0.67 to 1.11, surpassing the number of new car registrations. With the active support of policies such as the cancellation of used car “relocation restrictions” and the registration of used car transactions in different places, used car transactions The market is increasingly active.

The number of motor vehicle drivers reached 481 million. In 2021, the number of motor vehicle drivers nationwide will reach 481 million, of which 444 million are car drivers, accounting for 92.24% of the total number of drivers. In 2021, the number of newly licensed drivers (with driving experience less than one year) nationwide will reach 27.5 million, accounting for 5.72% of the total number of motor vehicle drivers in the country, an increase of 5.19 million or 23.25% over 2020. In terms of gender of drivers, there are 319 million male drivers, accounting for 66.32%; 162 million female drivers, accounting for 33.68%. In terms of driver age, there are 340 million drivers aged 26 to 50, accounting for 70.71%; 69.66 million drivers aged 51 to 60, accounting for 14.48%.

91.5 million vehicle and driver's license transactions were processed online. In 2021, in order to do a good job of normalized epidemic prevention and control, local public security traffic control departments vigorously promote 31 traffic control businesses such as replacement of licenses to be handled online "without leaving home". There were 91.5 million online vehicle and driver's license-related businesses across the country, an increase of 23.81 million or 35.17% from 2020. Among them, 33.85 million inspection-exempt signs were issued, accounting for 36.99%; 23.84 million driving licenses and driving licenses were replaced, accounting for 26.05%; 17.05 million temporary license plates were issued online, accounting for 18.64%; 10,000 person-times, accounting for 18.32%.