Urbanization in China or 37 percent of the total population in the mid-1980s—was relatively low by comparison with developed nations, the number of people living in urban areas in China was greater than the total population of any country in the world except India. The four Chinese cities with the largest populations in 1985 were Shanghai, with 7 million; Beijing, with 5.9 million; Tianjin, with 5.4 million; and Shenyang, with 4.2 million. The disproportionate distribution of population in large cities occurred as a result of the government's emphasis after 1949 on the development of large cities over smaller urban areas. In 1985 the
New energy vehicles in China energy vehicle sales since 2011, of which, 45.0% were sold in 2017, 29.3% in 2016, and 19.2% in 2015. , China had the world's largest fleet of light-duty plug-in electric vehicles with over 1.2 million units, after having overtook during 2016 both the U.S. and Europe in terms of cumulative sales. China has been the world's best-selling plug-in electric car market for three years running since 2015, with annual sales of more than 207,000 plug-in passenger cars in 2015; 320,000 in 2016; and record sales of about 600,000 passenger plug-in car sales in 2017, which accounted for about half of