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Car trade: Why the Chinese suddenly buy so many used cars

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Published: July 3rd, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Q-Car – a Porsche Holding brand – in Hangzhou: The car manufacturer has brought European-style used car dealerships to China.
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In 2014, around six million used cars were sold in China; by 2023, it was already 18.4 million – a record. And the boom is likely to continue this year, too. This is also partly due to the Chinese government drastically liberalizing the used car trade in 2022. It significantly simplified complex taxes, abolished bureaucratic hurdles and dropped trade restrictions.

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