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

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.