Ministry of Industry and Information Technology： The output of new energy vehicles may exceed 1.5 million this year.

　　Yesterday, the State Council Information Office held a press conference. Huang Libin, spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and director of the Operation Monitoring Coordination Bureau, and Wen Ku, spokesperson and director of the Information and Communication Development Department, introduced the development of the industrial communication industry in the first quarter of 2019. In the first quarter, the production and sales of new energy vehicles in China were 304,000 and 299,000 respectively, with the growth rate of production and sales reaching 102.7% and 109.7% respectively.

　　Huang Libin revealed at the press conference of the State Council Office that it will speed up the construction of charging facilities for new energy vehicles, optimize the layout of public charging piles, and give more preferential measures for the use of new energy vehicles based on the study of special number plates. "According to the statistics of industry associations, the production and sales of new energy vehicles in China were 304,000 and 299,000 respectively in the first quarter, and the growth rate of production and sales reached 102.7% and 109.7% respectively." Huang Libin predicts that the output of new energy vehicles may exceed 1.5 million this year.

　　In addition, Huang Libin introduced that by the end of March this year, government departments at all levels and large state-owned enterprises had paid off more than 260 billion yuan in accounts owed to private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises. Among them, the central enterprises completed 72% of the progress, local governments and large state-owned enterprises completed 32% of the progress, and one-third of the provinces made more than half of the progress.

　　Text/reporter Dong Xin