Staff members work on the production line of new energy vehicle at an automobile company in Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2021. (Photo by Li Hanchi/Xinhua)
BEIJING, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- China saw rapid development of its new energy vehicle (NEV) market in 2021, data from a recent report showed.
The total amount of financing in NEV-related sectors has exceeded 80 billion yuan (about 12.6 billion U.S. dollars) this year, and the number of newly-established NEV-related firms was 2.4 times that in 2020, according to the report released by database query platform Tianyancha.com.
Battery-changing services are becoming a new growth point in the NEV market, with 39,000 new related companies this year, the report said.
The hydrogen fuel cell sector saw a rapid expansion as well, with its total amount of financing surging 80 percent year on year to about 1.8 billion yuan, according to the report. ■
