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Article: NPC Deputy Calls for Developing Car Rental Business
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 8, 2001
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The general manager of a leading Chinese car manufacturer
Thursday submitted a proposal to the on- going National People's
Congress (NPC) session, urging the development of car rental
business in China.
Zhang Shirui, general manager of the Dongfeng-Citroen Automobile
Co., Ltd. and a deputy to the NPC, said car rental business has
spread to China where renting a car for personal use is expected to
become a new focus of consumption given the current purchasing power
of the Chinese people.
In 2000 alone, some 240,000 Chinese purchased their private cars,
but to most Chinese, having a private car is still a dream though
more than 26 million of them hold a driver's license.
"The family car ...