People go to the technical exhibition to discover Chinese new vitality automobiles. The exhibition is a part of the continuing 2025 World New Energy Vehicle Congress (WNEVC) that opened in Haikou, South China’s Hainan Province, on September 27, 2025. Photo: VCG
China’s meteoric rise in new-energy automobiles (NEVs) has made vital contribution to the global green transition within the transportation sector, some individuals to the continuing 2025 World New Energy Vehicle Congress (WNEVC) mentioned.
As the nation broadcasts objective to make new vitality automobiles the mainstream within the gross sales of recent automobiles by 2035, China’s expertise in green transportation improvement affords viable roadmaps and injects important confidence to creating international locations with green aspirations, they famous.
With a theme of “Industrial Transformation and Sustainable Development,” the 2025 WNEVC runs from Saturday to Monday in Haikou, capital of South China’s Hainan Province.
As certainly one of its key missions, the WNEVC promotes improvement of NEV with the objective of pushing up NEV market share to 50 p.c globally by 2035.
Meticulous planning
China’s NEV rise shouldn’t be a sudden or straightforward success, however reasonably a results of many years of planning and implementation, in accordance to officers and consultants attending the occasion.
China has steadfastly fostered development within the NEV sector by means of 5 Five-Year Plans, which is an instance of pursuing sci-tech and innovation pushed development, Miao Hong, deputy secretary-general of the Ministry of Science and Technology, mentioned at a discussion board on the WNEVC on Sunday.
Due to the federal government’s meticulous long-term planning, the lively participation of market entities, and the rising consciousness of sustainable and green development of the general public, the Chinese NEV sector has achieved spectacular development in recent times.
In 2024, China’s NEV output and gross sales in 2024 every exceeded 12 million, setting a landmark achievement, in accordance to information launched by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
In the primary half of 2025, NEV gross sales in China reached 6.94 million items with a market penetration price of 44.3 p.c, Wan Gang, president of the China Association for Science and Technology and president of the WNEVC, mentioned in a keynote speech on the 2025 WNEVC on Saturday.
Of the amassed NEV gross sales of 70 million items on the earth, 45 million are offered in China, Wan mentioned.
The International Energy Agency (IEA), said in a report launched in May that China performs an important position in global green improvement. In 2024, global electrical automobile gross sales surpassed 17 million items, accounting for over 20 p.c of complete car gross sales, in accordance to the IEA. NEV gross sales continued to set information worldwide, significantly in China and different rising economies.
The IEA famous that the 11 million electrical automobiles offered in China in 2024 alone exceeded global gross sales of the earlier two years mixed.
The report predicted that the deployment of NEVs will exchange the usage of greater than 5 million barrels of oil every day globally in 2030, with half of that discount coming from China.
Equally worthy to notice is that China has constructed up the world’s largest renewable vitality system throughout the identical timeframe, and now 40 p.c of the nation’s energy comes from green and renewable vitality sources corresponding to wind and photo voltaic, in accordance to consultants attending the WNEVC.
Chris Mason, CEO of FISITA, a world community for automotive engineers, informed the Global Times in an interview on Sunday that China’s meteoric rise in new-energy automobiles might be attributed to three parts, with the commercial technique deployment as the important thing, and fast tempo of deployment and China’s willingness to hear and study from global friends being key dietary supplements.
The tempo will proceed to collect from the making of automobiles to mobility methods, mentioned Mason, an business veteran with many years of expertise who witnessed China’s NEV rise firsthand.
Mason mentioned synthetic intelligence (AI) is a sport changer in human historical past similar to the web, and with China’s Internet Plus Initiative, the Chinese automotive business stands an excellent likelihood to take the global management.
Future of green mobility
China’s spectacular NEV improvement not solely advantages itself, however has additionally laid a broad basis for worldwide cooperation and lent precious expertise for different international locations searching for a greener future.
“The automotive sector has grown into a cornerstone of EU-China economic ties. Fifty years ago, trade between Europe and China was worth around 2 billion euros ($2.34 billion) per year. Today, it exceeds two billion euros a day. Nowhere is that progress more visible than in the automotive sector, from technology and trade to joint ventures and shard expertise, Europe and China have helped shape the global industry together,” Sigrid de Vries, director common with the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, or ACEA, mentioned throughout a speech on Sunday.
“As we gather here today, we look not only back on that success, but also ahead to what the next 50 years of collaboration can bring,” de Vries mentioned.
In March, the European Commission launched the commercial motion plan for the European automotive sector, marking the primary time that the EU has set out its future strategic priorities for automotive business within the type of an industrial coverage, de Vries mentioned.
A variety of international manufacturers, from Germany’s Volkswagen Group, BMW, Mercedes-Benz to Japan’s Toyota, displayed their electrical fashions on the WNEVC, with high firm brass expressing dedication to keep in and develop with the colourful Chinese NEV market.
Luke Hu, Co-Founder of Electroder, a software program and repair answer supplier for battery improvement, informed the Global Times on Sunday that China’s NEV improvement contributes considerably to global low-carbon and vitality transition.
In addition to aiding the nation in reaching its personal twin carbon targets and thus making a considerable direct contribution to the global effort on green transportation, China’s expertise affords precious technical roadmaps for different international locations and areas, aiding them speed up NEV improvement and cut back exploration prices, Hu mentioned.
Also, for a lot of creating international locations, significantly collaborating international locations of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, China’s NEV sector offers viable and cost-optimized options, which accelerates native transition to green vitality and electrical transportation, whereas additionally boosting these international locations’ confidence in pursuing their journey of sustainable future, Hu mentioned.