China Carmakers Told to Seek Fuel Efficiency, Not Sales - NYTimes.com

China Carmakers Told to Seek Fuel Efficiency, Not Sales - NYTimes.com: "A succession of government officials at a weekend conference called for China’s automakers to shift their focus from making ever more cars and toward producing more fuel-efficient and more advanced models, including gasoline-electric hybrids and all-electric cars.

“The government must take the leading role in controlling unrealistic growth” of the auto industry, Jiang Kejun, the influential director of the Energy Research Institute at the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planning agency, said Sunday during a speech at the conference."

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