It's customary for state officials of a car-producing nation to prefer local manufacturers for their transportation needs.
For example, German dignitaries will mostly be seen on TV stepping out of a Mercedes, BMW or Audi; their British counterparts choose brands like Jaguar, the French, large Peugeots or Renaults and so on.
It's also natural to promote their domestic products, though we haven't heard of any law specifically prohibiting the purchase of certain brands for all government agencies. Until now, that is.
The Chinese government has excluded all foreign brands from its list of new cars that can be acquired for official purposes. The reasons cited are that local agencies must reduce their spending costs, cut their energy consumption and minimize pollution. Surely, it's not yet another case of the government interfering with free trade...
The list published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology contains 412 models, all of them made by Chinese automakers.
It also mandates that vehicles used for official purposes like tax collection and criminal investigations must cost up to 180,000 yuan (US$28,571); have an engine no bigger than 1.8-liters in capacity and their manufactures must have spent at least 3 percent of their core revenue in research and development in the last two years.
What it does not clarify, though, is whether the rule that mandates the purchase of domestic-only vehicles apply for all new car purchases, including those made for the upper echelons of the Chinese government…
Story References: Bloomberg News
11 Comments:
Oh those poor bastards, they have to suffer with the cheap ass Chinese made, but look on the brighter side, their titles entitle them to bribery and extortion of hundred and thousand of dollars from their own people.
That has to be the ugliest car I ever seen. Aren't chinese cars the worst in crash test still?
"...the French large Peugeots or Renaults..." WHAT???
DS? SM? CX? XM? C6? I'm not french, but I'm a proud Citroën owner and this statement hurts my feelings:(
The car in the picture above should be used in the next scary movie film. It looks like a retard. Damn Chinese!!!
Well actually, the case is similar here in the States. I spent some amount of time working for the research arm for the USDA and the department at large was generally only allowed to purchase vehicles from the Big 3. Any ideas to buy a foreign make had to go through a year long process of paperwork and signatures to get passed on in addition to the usual bureaucracy.
Wow, that's a really bad photoshop of the Louvre.
China, whatever happened to you?
You built the Great Wall and Ming vases.. now you build cheap/hideous/embarrassing products that not even Photoshop can dignify.
Ok, the car pictured above isn't as ugly as a Jaguar E-Type, but i still prefer a German car...
A huge boost to the Chinese car industry, I support this decision 100%.
with this boost, China will be the leader in the global auto industry in 5 years.
mark my words!! It's time for China to flex his muscle in the world stage!
More like 4 EuroNCAP stars a few weeks back
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hmm which country atm has more ppl driving lambo and ferrari ah yes its china
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