Scary Statistic: China May Have 1 Billion Drivers
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If Beijing’s bumper-to-bumper traffic looks scary now, imagine this: one billion Chinese drivers.
That’s the number of people that Shi Jianhua, deputy secretary-general of the state-backed China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, forecasts could have driving licenses in the country in the next 10 to 15 years. There were about 280 million last year, according to the Ministry of Public Security.