| 04-01-2008
China
had 159.8 million motor vehicles by the end of 2007, up 10.02 percent from 2006,
according to the Ministry of Public Security on Thursday. Automobiles
and motorcycles accounted for 90.61 percent of the total motor vehicles. The statistics
also cover tractors, trailers and other sorts of motor vehicles, statistics from
the ministry's traffic administration show. The
number of passenger automobiles went up 21.86 percent and trucks 7.41 percent
compared with 2006 figures. Private
cars rose by 10.92 percent and made up 76.09 percent of China's total motor vehicles. By
the end of 2007, China had 164 million drivers, up 9.17 percent from 2006.
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