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With soaring car sales in China in mind, U.S. President Donald Trump might want to sway his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to grant American manufacturers easy access to the Chinese market. In 2008, sales in China caught up with those in the United States (at 6.7 million units). In 2016, sales stood at a whopping 24.4 million and counting. Sales of cars in other big manufacturing nations are almost stagnant.
Part of that is that car ownership by the people is a recent phenomenon in China and a rapidly growing one in a huge population country whereas the first time new ownership market has been filled for years in the United States and other modern country.
Sort of like the phase computers went through after affordable home PC’s were introduced, only a few had them at first but now almost everyone does.