At present, the number of taxis in China is about 6.5438+0 million. Except a few cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, taxis in most other cities are owned by individuals. According to Xinhua News Agency, with the rapid development of China's economy and the remarkable improvement of people's living standards, the demand for automobiles in China is expanding. In 2005, the demand for automobiles in China was 6.4 million, and it is expected to be close to150,000 in 2008, which is equivalent to a quarter of the current global demand for automobiles. A few days ago, a reporter from Japan News Agency sent a report from Beijing, in which he wrote, "There are120,000 private cars in China". Previously, many Chinese-language media at home and abroad also claimed that "there are more than10 million private cars in China". However, some domestic authorities say that there are only a few million private cars in China. It seems a mystery how many private cars there are in China. The state encourages cars to enter the family, but if it is not clear how many cars enter the family, how can we guide car consumption? How to guide automobile manufacturers to produce and sell? A year ago, an authoritative domestic media published a statistical data of the National Bureau of Statistics entitled "Private cars in China exceeded100000". There is nothing wrong with the figures of the National Bureau of Statistics, but the reporter who wrote the manuscript did not know whether it was intentional or unintentional, which confused the difference between private cars and private cars. When many overseas media reprinted this manuscript, the title became "China100000 Private Cars". At that time, the Associated Press and Reuters's Beijing correspondent called China Automobile Industry Association and asked how 6,543,800 private cars were calculated. In fact, private cars mentioned by the National Bureau of Statistics refer to all kinds of privately owned cars, including trucks and passenger cars. At least half of these vehicles are production tools for operation, not consumer goods. Private car is the name given by people in Hong Kong and Macao to family cars used solely for consumption, including cars, off-road vehicles and multi-purpose vehicles. In the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics on automobiles, one item is "XXXX private car ownership". Private cars are divided into trucks and buses. Passenger cars are subdivided into four types: large, medium, small and miniature. According to the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2003, the number of civilian cars in China reached more than 24 million, including private cars 1.2 1.900. Among the private cars, 3.73 million are trucks, and these trucks are 100% production tools. Of the 8.46 million private buses, 500,000 are large and medium-sized buses, mainly used for passenger transport. There are 5.87 million minibuses and 2.09 million minibuses, which add up to 7.96 million. By analyzing these two parts of passenger cars, we can find that more than half of minibuses are small, that is, vans. These facets are mostly used for pulling goods or carrying passengers, belonging to the category of production tools. Private cars (including mini cars) and some privately owned taxis. At present, the number of taxis in China is about 6.5438+0 million. Except a few cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, taxis in most other cities are owned by individuals. Seven buckles and eight buckles, but more than 6 million private cars are real consumer goods. Beijing has the highest number of cars in China. By the end of July this year, the number of motor vehicles in the city had reached 2.22 million, including private cars/kloc-0.48 million and private cars (cars and off-road vehicles)/kloc-0.04 million. According to the city's permanent population of 6.5438+0.45 million, the average population is nearly 654.38+0.4, and about 5 families own a private car. Jiangsu Province is located in the Yangtze River Delta with relatively developed economy. As of the first half of this year, Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, had only one private car for every 20 families on average. The number of cars, especially the number of private cars for consumption, is closely related to economic development, economic activities, GDP, per capita GDP growth and the development of road construction. In recent years, the number of cars in China has increased rapidly, and there has been a "blowout" of cars for more than two consecutive years. However, compared with the developed countries in the world, the gap is still very large. At the end of 2003, the number of cars per thousand people in China was less than 20, which was far from the level of 600 cars per thousand people in developed countries. As consumer goods, the number of private cars is even less, with an average of more than 200 people in the country. With the sustained and rapid economic development and the increase of people's income, more and more ordinary people in China are enjoying automobile civilization. According to a recent report by the Ministry of Commerce, the output of automobiles in China will exceed 5 million this year, about half of which will be automobiles. This will enable China's automobile production to reach the level of one million vehicles per year for four consecutive years. This growth rate is unprecedented in all countries of the world. In 2003, China has become the third largest automobile consumption market in the world, next to the United States and Germany. Some experts predict that if there are no accidents, the demand for automobiles in China will reach 5.9 million in 2005, surpassing German, exceeding 10/00000 in 20 10/00000 and expected to reach170000 in 2020. It is equivalent to the size of the American automobile consumption market. No wonder a Japanese media recently commented on China's automobile market: "There can be no other automobile market comparable to Wang Guoxiang, the world's largest automobile country, except China.