Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong province, is competing to become a production base for new energy vehicles in the coming years.

According to the city's blueprint, the southern metropolis has plans to be capable of manufacturing more than 300,000 new energy cars annually by 2020, and the city's new energy car ownership is estimated to come to more than 200,000 within three years.

"Guangzhou is expected to become a new, foreign-oriented 'new energy and intelligent Internet Plus' innovative automobile industrial development zone," according to the Work Plan for the Development of the New Energy Vehicles in Guangzhou 2017-20.