Zhejiang Geely Holding Group in January signed an agreement with Foxconn Technology Group, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer for Apple’s iPhones, to offer production services for other automakers.

Sales of new-energy vehicles, including pure battery-electric vehicles as well as plug-in hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, are expected to make up 20% of China's overall annual auto sales by 2025.

Huawei Technologies is in talks with state-owned Changan Automobile and other automakers to use their car plants to build EVs, Reuters reported.

More than 60 percent of China’s 14.4 billion residents live in cities. And these days, the country’s sprawling urban areas are becoming more torn between a desire to ease congestion and to promote green vehicles. Shanghai has become the first to craft a solution: Phase out incentives for plug-in hybrids and extended-range EVs, and go all out to popularize EVs.