2023-10-01 16:16:33
▲Recently, domestic and foreign media have reported on the situation of China’s “electric vehicle graveyard”. The picture shows an electric vehicle disposal site in Hangzhou. (Picture/taken from Weibo)
[NOWnews今日新聞] Since Tesla founder Musk launched his first electric car, it has immediately set off a global trend, and even China has invested in this field to seize market share. However, domestic and foreign media have recently reported that “electric vehicle graveyards” have appeared in many cities in China. Regarding this, Akio Yaita, director of the Taipei branch of Japan’s Sankei Shimbun, analyzed that this is because the Xi Jinping regime is too busy with success and has not done a good job in the market. Regarding the investigation, as Taiwan’s presidential election is approaching, Akio Yaita also called for “candidates who have the ability to implement policies.”
Akio Yaita pointed out in a Facebook post that many foreign media have recently reported that hundreds of thousands of “electric vehicle cemeteries” have been abandoned in many cities in China. Abandoned electric vehicles are parked around inaccessible parking lots or on river banks, and some have even been covered by weeds, seriously damaging the environment.
Akio Yaita analyzed that the chaos in China’s “electric vehicle cemetery” is inseparable from the strong subsidies provided by the Chinese government for electric vehicles many years ago. At that time, both production and purchase might receive high subsidies, and a large number of crudely manufactured electric vehicles flooded into the market. Because they were not durable, they were quickly eliminated, and car owners were unwilling to spend money to dispose of obsolete electric vehicles, so a large number of them were abandoned.
Akio Yaita recalled the “shared bicycle cemeteries” that appeared across China a few years ago. Since shared bicycles can replace public transportation or private vehicles for short-distance commuting, to relieve traffic congestion and reduce noise and air pollution, the Chinese government vigorously promoted it before the 10th century and introduced many incentive mechanisms. However, in many cases, After a company joins, it cannot conduct commercial operations at all. After the company withdrew, the scrapped shared bicycles were abandoned in parks, river embankments or in the wilderness, forming “bicycle graveyards”.
However, Akio Yaita believes that both electric vehicles and shared bicycles were originally intended to reduce pollution and improve the environment. “But the biggest reason why they failed in China is that the Xi Jinping regime did not do a good job in market research and was too eager to achieve success. “
Akio Yaita pointed out that this way of governing the country is called “ruling by head,” which means that the top leaders put aside the analysis reports of the bureaucratic system and only rely on impulse decisions. Whether it is the electric vehicle cemetery or the shared bicycle cemetery, they are the results of policy failures that are visible to the naked eye. “There must be many more such failures on the side that we cannot see.”
At the end of the article, Akio Yaita mentioned that Taiwan’s presidential election is approaching, but some candidates have introduced policies that are not very feasible and do not seem to have been carefully thought out. They just rely on the candidates to come up with them. Akio Yaita appealed to the public that when considering who to choose as president, you must look clearly, don’t be led by rhetoric, and you must choose candidates who have the ability to implement policies.
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