Back in 2020, China exported around 1 million vehicles, well behind the automotive powerhouses of South Korea, Japan, and Germany, and not too dissimilar to where exports stood at the start of the 2010s.
Then in 2021, things began to change extremely rapidly.
The pace of Chinese car exports began an absolutely meteoric rise, rapidly eclipsing rival after rival until the Middle Kingdom achieved the status of top-dog exporter, yet another victory for the “World’s Factory”.


