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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: 168 million motor vehicles on China’s roads, up 5% year-on-year

China had 168.03 million motor vehicles through September, up 8.26 million, or 5.17 percent, from last year’s figure for the same period, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security said on recently. The figures cover automobiles, motorcycles, tractors, trailers and other motor vehicles […]

China had 168.03 million motor vehicles through September, up 8.26 million, or 5.17 percent, from last year’s figure for the same period, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security said on recently.

The figures cover automobiles, motorcycles, tractors, trailers and other motor vehicles.

Private motor vehicles rose by 6.11 million and made up 75.99 percent of the country’s total motor vehicles, statistics from the ministry’s traffic administration showed. Private cars totaled 40.18 million, up 13.71 percent over the previous year.

Through September, the country had 175.63 million drivers, up 7.17 percent from 2007.

By Itamar Medeiros

Originally from Brazil, Itamar Medeiros currently lives in Germany, where he works as VP of Design Strategy at SAP, where he leads the design vision for the entire Human Capital Management product line, ensuring cohesive product narratives and establishing best practices.

Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar has helped truly global companies in multiple continents create great user experience through advocating Design and Innovation principles. Itamar has also served as a juror for prestigious design competitions and lectured on design topics at universities worldwide.

During his 7 years in China, he promoted the User Experience Design discipline as User Experience Manager at Autodesk and Local Coordinator of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) in Shanghai.

Itamar holds a MA in Design Practice from Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK), for which he received a Distinction Award for his thesis Creating Innovative Design Software Solutions within Collaborative/Distributed Design Environments.

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