What to do with 16 million cars in landfills? China seeks answer

China had long resisted Western influences, but by the end of the 1990s adopted policies supporting Western car culture. The rise of China’s middle class went hand in hand with the rise of motorization. In China, the middle class “has grown from almost nothing in 1995 to 87 million in 2005,” according to a MasterCard/HSBC study.



The same study estimates that by 2015, China’s middle class will be about 317 million people, an impressive figure given that the entire population of the United States in 2015 is just over 319 million.

These statistics mean a huge number of cars on the road — 154 million units, the second in the world after the United States, according to the Wall Street Journal. It’s no surprise that so many cars on the streets have caused a number of problems.

Beijing is already ahead of Los Angeles in so-called night traffic. In 2010, a traffic jam in Beijing stretched over 60 miles and lasted more than 10 days.

In a bid to reduce the amount of exhaust gases that heavily pollute the air, the Chinese government has announced plans to clear 6 million old and inefficient vehicles from the streets. published





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