China on right road with electric vehicles

Carbon goals aided by expansion of world's biggest market for green cars

Editor's Note: As delegates try to reach a meaningful agreement at the COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, calls are growing for concrete action to combat global warming.

Chinese consumers' readiness to switch to electric vehicles will help the government achieve the goal of reducing emissions under its strategy to combat climate change, experts say.

China has become the world's biggest market for EVs, accounting for 40.5 percent of the 3.17 million such vehicles sold worldwide last year. The Chinese sales of nearly 1.29 million units in 2020 represented an increase of 8.3 percent year-on-year, according to data from the International Energy Agency.