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From: roto4/23/2024 9:56:16 PM
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‘It Is Desolate’: China’s Glut of Unused Car Factories
Manufacturers like BYD, Tesla and Li Auto are cutting prices to move their electric cars. For gasoline-powered vehicles, the surplus of factories is even worse.

nytimes.com


Next to the Chinese characters above the front gate of a former Hyundai factory in Chongqing, China, a slogan used to say in English: “New Thinking, New Possibilities.”Credit...Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times


By Keith Bradsher

Reporting from Chongqing, China

April 23, 2024Updated 9:04 p.m. ET

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On the outskirts of Chongqing, western China’s largest city, sits a huge symbol of the country’s glut of car factories. It’s a complex of gray buildings, nearly a square mile in size. The thousands of employees who used to work there have moved on. Its crimson loading docks are closed.
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