China must go green.(News)(Brief Article)

Automotive News Europe,  June, 2004  

• E-mail
• Print
• Link

Byline: James B. Treece

Global automakers have accelerated their investments into China but they may have to pay the price for the heated development unless they get more environmentally friendly.

To accomplish this, "China's automobile industry must follow a new development route with high efficiency, energy saving and low pollution," warned Miao Wei, president of Dongfeng Motor Corp.

For one, he is concerned about a shortage of petroleum.

China consumed 250 million tons of petroleum in 2003, the second-largest petroleum consuming country in the world, Wei ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.