Production and sales of new energy vehicles in China maintained rapid growth last year, which saw an increase of 59.92 percent and 61.74 percent year-on-year to 1.27 million and 1.26 million units, respectively.

Specifically, the production and sales of pure electric vehicles were 986,000 and 984,000 units respectively, up 47.9 percent and 50.8 percent year-on-year; for plug-in hybrids, the figures stood at 283,000 and 271,000, an increase of 122 percent and 118 percent respectively over the same period of the previous year; fuel cell vehicles saw 1,527 units in both production and sales.