China News Service, Beijing, July 6 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security on the 6th that according to statistics, as of the end of June 2022, the number of motor vehicles in the country reached 406 million, including 310 million cars and 1,001 new energy vehicles. 492 million motor vehicle drivers, including 454 million car drivers.

　　In the first half of 2022, there were 16.57 million newly registered motor vehicles nationwide, a decrease of 2.14 million or 11.43% compared with the same period last year.

The number of new motor vehicle registrations in the first three months of the first half of the year was the same as the same period last year. Affected by the epidemic, the number of new motor vehicle registrations in April and May was significantly lower than the same period last year. The number of newly registered motor vehicles reached 2.7 million, which was basically the same as last June.

5.34 million motorcycles were newly registered, an increase of 1.08 million or 25.38% compared with the number of new registrations in the first half of last year.

　　As of the end of June, the number of new energy vehicles in the country reached 10.01 million, accounting for 3.23% of the total number of vehicles.

Among them, the number of pure electric vehicles is 8.104 million, accounting for 80.93% of the total number of new energy vehicles.

In the first half of the year, 2.209 million new energy vehicles were newly registered, an increase of 1.106 million or 100.26% compared with the number of new registrations in the first half of last year, a record high.

The number of new registrations of new energy vehicles accounted for 19.90% of the new registrations of vehicles.

　　There are 81 cities in the country with more than 1 million cars, an increase of 7 cities over the same period of last year, 37 cities with more than 2 million vehicles, and 20 cities with more than 3 million vehicles.

Among them, there are more than 6 million vehicles in Beijing, more than 5 million vehicles in Chengdu and Chongqing, and more than 4 million vehicles in Suzhou, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Xi'an and Wuhan.

　　As of the end of June, the number of motor vehicle drivers in the country reached 492 million, of which 454 million were car drivers, accounting for 92.38% of the total number of drivers.

In the first half of 2022, the number of newly licensed drivers nationwide was 11.03 million.

The "Regulations on the Application and Use of Motor Vehicle Driving Licenses" (Order No. 162 of the Ministry of Public Security), which has been implemented since April 1 this year, has added a "light towing trailer" permitted driving type (C6), and has now obtained the C6 permitted driving type driver. The number of people reached 160,000. The new Ministry ordered to better meet the needs of the masses to drive small travel trailers and promote the development of new forms of RV tourism.

　　In the first half of 2022, in order to do a good job in normalizing epidemic prevention and control, local public security traffic control departments actively promote the online operation of traffic control services such as replacement of license plates "without leaving home".

There were 44.56 million online transactions across the country, including the replacement of driver's licenses and the issuance of temporary license plates.

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