On Friday and Saturday, Beijing hosted the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, which is dedicated to developing trade routes from China to Central Asia and Europe.
If you look at just about any global trend, in China it would be manifested in a unique way. Locals would pick a “fresh idea” and produce dozens of products based on it. Sometimes the process goes through a long trial-and-error period, but the scale of the outcome would probably be tenfold of what you might see in other parts of the world.
There are still millions of bicycles in Beijing, but they are slowly being replaced by electric scooters and mopeds. Same is happening to cars – you see more and more green plates in Beijing’s traffic. These are all electric vehicles. pic.twitter.com/Eb51w1A1sK
The Chinese auto industry, for instance, started embracing clean energy at the turn of the 21st century — at about the same time as Japan or the US. But instead of waiting for expensive imported models to arrive, or introducing just a couple of hybrid models like the others, the Chinese produced a much wider variety of their own electric vehicles — cars that you can’t find anywhere else but here.
Tesla cars are present on the roads in China (sometimes parked in bike lane, like this one:), but domestic Chinese EV manufacturers such as JAC produce a much wider variety of models (9 for JAC alone) – cheap, reliable, and rarely seen outside China.
