Carmakers aver core tech R&D can drive EVs

In their role as deputies, top executives urge new laws to boost sector's growth

Executives from some major Chinese carmakers have called for enhanced research and development activities to promote core technologies relating to electric vehicles.

They have stressed the need for draft laws to commercialize autonomous vehicles. Such an approach, they averred, will help consolidate the nation's first-mover advantage in the field.

The country should build its own supply chain, which would be indispensable for the EV sector's quality development, said Wang Fengying, president of Great Wall Motor, in her proposal to the 13th National People's Congress.