By Zhang Liang

On 16 July morning, citizen Mr. Ge went to municipal vehicle management office with his child to apply for licence plate for his family’s second car. Ge did not expect that the moment he got the licence plate was framed in the history of automobile development in Nantong; the 2 millionth car in Nantong emerged. Nantong became the fourth city with 2 million cars in Jiangsu, after Suzhou, Nanjing and Wuxi.

Director of municipal vehicle management office Fu Shimiao said that in 1984 there were fewer than 5000 cars in Nantong, in the end of 2014, the number of cars exceeded one million, only after more than 6 years, it reached 2 million. What behind the rapid increase of the number is the rapid development of economy in Nantong. In the present every 3.8 Nantong residents own a car.