Number of automobiles in China 2011-2022

As of 2022, the number of automobiles in China amounted to 319 million. Over the past decade, car parc in China has been increasing significantly by more than 132 percent.Status quo of car parc in China  Car parc refers to the number of registered motor vehicles in use in a region. Yet the term differs from vehicle parc by excluding motorcycles and agricultural vehicles. The car parc of China has been increasing exponentially due to the rapidly increasing new vehicle registrations. Guangdong province has the highest number of registered vehicles in the country. In 2022, the southern province had around 2.65 million newly registered motor vehicles. In the same year, more than 20 million small passenger vehicles were registered for the first time nationwide while new registrations of other passenger motor vehicles ranged between 167 and 66,735. Measures to discourage car use  In recent years, negative effects of the constantly increasing car parc, such as heavy traffic jams and deteriorating air quality, started to surface in China. Several urban centers in China have thus introduced regulations to discourage car use, which prevent cars from being driven on certain days depending on the last digit of the plate number. As these policies failed to mitigate the effects of increasing car use, other measures, especially the plate number lottery schemes in cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai were introduced. Would-be drivers need to participate in a complicated lottery process to win a license plate before purchasing a vehicle, while a license plate could cost more than a car in the secondary market.

截至2022年，中国汽车保有量已达到3.19亿辆。在过去十年中，中国汽车保有量显著增长，增幅超过132%。中国汽车保有量的现状（汽车保有量，系指某一区域内注册在用的机动车辆数量，该术语与车辆保有量不同，不包括摩托车和农业车辆。）正以指数级增长，这主要归因于新车注册数量的快速增长。广东省拥有全国最多的注册车辆。2022年，该南部省份新注册的机动车数量约为265万辆。同年，全国范围内首次注册的小型乘用车超过2000万辆，而其他乘用车的首次注册数量介于16.7万辆至66735辆之间。为抑制汽车使用，近年来，中国一些城市中心开始实施旨在限制汽车使用的法规，这些法规根据车牌号码的最后一位数字限制某些日子驾驶汽车。然而，这些政策未能有效缓解汽车使用增加的影响，因此，北京、天津和上海等城市采取了其他措施，特别是引入了车牌号码抽签制度。潜在驾驶员需要参与复杂的抽签程序，才能在购买车辆前赢得车牌，而在二手车市场上，车牌的价格甚至可能超过车辆本身。