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CCPs New Five-Year Plan Sidelines Electric Vehicles After Years of Subsidy-Driven Expansion

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BYD electric cars lined up to be loaded onto a ship at a port in Yantai, in eastern China’s Shandong province, on April 18, 2024. STR/AFP via Getty ImagesChina is stepping back from designating electric vehicles (EVs) a key strategic priority for the next five years, signaling what could be an end to an aggressive state-backed push that has made the country the world’s largest EV market.A draft outlining the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 15th Five-Year Plan, released Tuesday by the state-run Xinhua News Agency, shows that electric vehicles have been removed from a list of “strategic emerging industries.”

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