Thousands of electric vehicles are ready for delivery at the Chang’an Automobile Distribution Center in Chongqing. Up to and including October, the number of electric cars sold in the People’s Republic was almost ten million. The 12 million mark is expected to be broken by the end of the year. Chang’an is one of the big state-owned manufacturers that has played a key role in making Chongqing a manufacturing hub in China. The company cooperates with Huawei and is partly owned by battery manufacturer CATL.