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Motor vehicles in Xinjiang's Urumqi near 1 million

Xinhua, April 6, 2017 Adjust font size:

Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is expected to have 1 million motor vehicles on its roads by June, the city government said Thursday.

According to an official bulletin, there were 943,100 vehicles at the end of 2016, up 14.2 percent year on year. This means, on average, 10,000 cars were added to the roads each month.

The number of private cars climbed to over 750,000, up 20.5 percent year on year, with a population of about 3.52 million, this means there was one car for every 4.7 people.

Analysts said a favorable purchase tax and encouragement policies of new energy vehicles as well as the city's improving infrastructure have sustained the rapid growth of car sales.

There were 2,942 kilometers of roads, including 270 km of expressway, in Urumqi by the end of last year, 96 km more than the previous year. Endi