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China’s Automobile-Dependent Society at the Crossroads: Annual Report on Development of the Automobile-Dependent Society in China (2011)

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This report firstly introduces the concept of automobile-dependent society and the automobiles’ important role in society, and then describes the current automobile-dependent society in China. It holds that as of early 2012 China has crossed the threshold of automobile-dependent society, as evidenced by the overall household car ownership. As leading cities of the country have stridden into the automobile-dependent society and the second- and third-tier cities see a large of number of cars pour into average families, Chinese cities enter the automobile-dependent society in echelons. In this process, China automobile industry—a pivotal part of the national economy—experiences rapid development; the mileage of roads, an essential facility for the automobile-dependent society, keeps increasing; and the auto population density is growing. Still the Chinese automobile-dependent society faces such problems as insufficient space, rising costs of automobile use, much to be desired in auto civility and imbalanced development. Finally, the report points out the developing direction of the automobile-dependent society in China.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    NTI Automobile Research: 2009 Blue Book on the Automobile-dependent Society in China, http://auto.ifeng.com/news/comprehensive/20100424/283118.shtml.

  2. 2.

    See [1].

  3. 3.

    Opportunities and Challenges for Automobile-dependent Society in China. Auto Industry Research (3).

  4. 4.

    See [2].

  5. 5.

    Based on the statistical communiques of all provinces and municipalities in China on the 2010 national economic and social development.

  6. 6.

    All-roundly Going into Automobile-dependent Society, Automotive Observer, (2).

  7. 7.

    See [4].

  8. 8.

    State Information Center. Automotive Industry Forecast for 2006. http://www.docin.com/p-51311773.html.

  9. 9.

    See [5].

  10. 10.

    See [6].

  11. 11.

    See [7].

  12. 12.

    See [8].

  13. 13.

    See [9].

  14. 14.

    See [10].

  15. 15.

    See [11].

  16. 16.

    See [2]. The population statistics of 1339,724,852 came from the sixth national census that involved 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of China.

  17. 17.

    See [12].

  18. 18.

    Tao Jing. Traffic-clogged City Crisis: Shenzhen Counts Over 1.7 Vehicles and Tops the Country in Auto Density. http://news.sznews.com/content/2010-12109/content_5155645.htm.

  19. 19.

    See [13].

  20. 20.

    See [14].

  21. 21.

    See [15].

  22. 22.

    Tao Jing. Traffic-clogged City Crisis: Shenzhen Counts Over 1.7 Vehicles and Tops the Country in Auto Density. http://news.sznews.com/content/2010-12109/content_5155645.htm.

  23. 23.

    See [16].

  24. 24.

    See [17].

  25. 25.

    See [18].

  26. 26.

    Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People’s Republic of China. China Vehicle Emission Control Annual Report (2010). Official Website of the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

  27. 27.

    See [19].

  28. 28.

    See [20].

  29. 29.

    Speech by Deputy Director Wang Siqiang of the General Affairs Department of the National Energy Administration on 2010 Energy Situation Release Conference. Sina-Finance-Industrial Finance.

  30. 30.

    BP Statistical Review of World Energy (2011, June), http://www.bp.com/.

  31. 31.

    See [21].

  32. 32.

    See [22].

  33. 33.

    See [23].

  34. 34.

    See [24].

  35. 35.

    See [25].

  36. 36.

    Ibid, p. 262.

  37. 37.

    See [26].

  38. 38.

    See [27].

  39. 39.

    See [28].

  40. 40.

    See [29].

  41. 41.

    See [30].

  42. 42.

    See [31].

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Wang, J. (2019). China’s Automobile-Dependent Society at the Crossroads: Annual Report on Development of the Automobile-Dependent Society in China (2011). In: Wang, J. (eds) Development of a Society on Wheels. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2270-9_2

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