The Nanjing International Auto Show 2017 is slated for opening on September 30 to run until October 5 in the city’s international exposition center.
This year’s edition of Nanjing International Auto Show will see more than 80 brands from home and abroad to be displayed over a total area of 100,000 square meters.
Both domestic and foreign carmakers will showcase their limited models and the debut of their latest models as well as the popular models.
The exhibition will for the first time to set aside a special zone to the display of new energy vehicles such as BYD, Chery, Tesla and BAIC. New energy vehicles produced in Jiangsu will also make debut at the show.
As the year's largest car feast, this year’s auto show will see a record number of world debuts by leading carmakers such as Audi’s brand new 18 $literal, BMW’s new 5 Series, Land Rover Star, Subaru XV.
The number of new energy vehicles in China has reached 1.01 million, according to figures released by the Ministry of Public Security in August.
A total of 825,000 of them were electric vehicles, and the other 193,000 were hybrid electric vehicles, said the ministry's traffic management bureau.
In order to better identify the vehicles, the MPS designated five pilot cities in which 76,000 exclusive green license plates were distributed for new energy vehicles in 2016.
The exclusive license plates will cover all Chinese cities by the first half of 2018, the MPS said.
The production and sales volume of new energy vehicles is expected to surpass 5 million by 2020, according to the ministry.
