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Since the second half of 2018, China's car market has entered a cold winter, with car production and sales falling by 4.16% and 2.76% for the whole of 2018, which is also the first decline in China's car market in more than 20 years. The situation remains unchanged in 2019. Data show that a total of 5.2628 million domestic passenger cars were sold in the first quarter of this year, down 13.72% from the same period last year.

China's car sales continue to decline and the trend of car consumption is gradually declining. in such an environment, the National Development and Reform Commission is expected to guide further liberalization of the purchase restriction policy and comprehensively encourage automobile consumption. Recently, it was revealed that the National Development and Reform Commission has issued the implementation Plan for promoting the Renewal of consumption of Automobile, Home Appliances and Consumer Electronic products to promote the Development of Circular economy (2019-2020), which plans to further expand the consumer market such as automobiles, promote the development of circular economy, and deepen supply-side structural reform.

Today (April 18) the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) formally responded to the online rumor that "car purchase restrictions will be relaxed": it is learning about the relevant situation, and all policies have been repeatedly demonstrated and fully solicited by the parties concerned.

In order to solve the problem of urban traffic congestion and alleviate traffic pressure, some urban areas have implemented the policy of allocation index through lottery, which is the so-called "car purchase restriction order". The purpose of car purchase restriction order is to solve the problem of urban traffic congestion. to alleviate traffic pressure, through the policy of lottery allocation index, different regions have different requirements. Consumers who want to apply for car purchase indicators first need to meet the application requirements.

At present, purchase restrictions have been implemented in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities across the country, and according to the data of the Federation of passengers, the winning rates of license plate lottery in Beijing and Shenzhen are 1.23% and 3.14%, respectively. It is the two cities with the lowest winning rate in the country, and the winning rate of other restricted cities is about 6%. In these urban areas where purchase restrictions have been implemented, citizens who want to obtain indicators can also participate in license plate bidding in addition to lottery numbers. according to previous data, the average transaction price per person in Guangzhou is as high as 57283 yuan. This year, the average transaction price in these rounds of bidding is more than 36000. Shenzhen, on the other hand, is even more exaggerated, with the highest average transaction price of 95103 yuan, compared with 50, 000 or 60, 000 in recent rounds.

Cui Dongshu, secretary-general of the Federation of passengers, said that the purchase restriction policy has seriously restricted car consumption in some cities. Taking car sales in 2017 as an example, the number of cars in Hangzhou and Guangzhou was 2.44 million and 2.4 million, respectively. However, the number of non-restricted cities such as Suzhou, Dongguan, Shijiazhuang and Qingdao has exceeded these two restricted cities in the same period. For consumers in restricted cities, the relaxation of car purchase restrictions is expected to solve some of the problems of not getting the target, thereby boosting the demand for cars in these cities.

The specific implementation plan is described in detail in the exposed document, and there are nine supporting regulations in the automobile field. Among them, the most important thing is that the purchase restrictions in cities will be gradually relaxed, the license plate target will be increased by 50% this year, there will be no restrictions on the purchase of new energy vehicles, and the restrictions on pickups are also expected to be relaxed.

According to the documents of the National Development and Reform Commission, the barriers to the upgrading of passenger car consumption are removed. Among them, "strict new car purchase restrictions have been issued in various localities, places where car purchase restrictions have been implemented should speed up the transition from restricted purchase to guided use", "increase the number of license plate increments by 50% and 100% respectively in 2019 and 2020", "lift restrictions on car purchases for car-free households", "New Energy vehicles are not restricted" and so on.

In addition, the restrictions on pickups are also expected to be relaxed. According to the document, give full play to the dual-use function of pickup trucks, speed up the lifting of restrictions on pickup access to cities, expand the scope of pilot areas for pickups, and all restrictions on pickup access to cities at prefectural level and below will be lifted by the end of 2020.

In addition, the document also shows that it is necessary to study and formulate policies to promote the renewal of old cars, encourage the elimination of vehicles lagging behind emission standards in the form of subsidies, promote the upgrading of rural vehicle consumption, and enjoy preferential treatment for rural residents to purchase corresponding vehicles by the end of 2020, and so on.

Earlier, Ning Jizhe, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, has revealed that he is considering introducing new policies to encourage car consumption. At the beginning of this year, the National Development and Reform Commission and other ten ministries jointly issued the "implementation Plan for further optimizing supply, promoting steady growth of consumption and promoting the formation of a strong domestic Market (2019)", putting forward six measures such as "promoting the upgrading of rural cars".

Now it seems that the car purchase restrictions in important cities, which have been implemented for many years, are expected to be gradually watered down. Of course, the current draft for soliciting opinions is still in the stage of collecting opinions, and whether car purchase restrictions can be relaxed, when and how to open them have yet to be announced.

Partial screenshots of the provisions on the promotion of automobile consumption in the Programme:

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