The explosive growth of China’s second-hand car exports today relies on the strong support of three core advantages: sufficient vehicle resources and high cost-effectiveness, continuous release of policy dividends, and a sound industrial supporting system. Let me help you break it down:
1、 Abundant vehicle resources and high cost-effectiveness
A huge domestic car supply pool: The number of domestic cars exceeds 435 million, with new car sales exceeding 26 million for consecutive years, generating a large number of “long kilometer” used cars that meet international demand every year.
Significant price advantage: The same model is often sold at nearly twice the domestic price overseas, with a clear profit margin for the price difference. For example, compact fuel vehicles have a domestic price of about 37000 yuan and can be exported to some markets for up to 50000 to 60000 yuan.
Strong vehicle adaptability: Chinese second-hand cars are mainly left-hand drive vehicles, which perfectly meet the mainstream demand markets in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and other regions.
2、 Policy dividends continue to be released
Export tax rebate support: Export second-hand cars can apply for a refund of about 13% value-added tax, directly reducing procurement costs.
Improved regulatory system: Although the new regulations in 2026 raise the threshold, an integrated service system of “regulation research risk warning measure evaluation” will be established to provide compliance support for export enterprises.
Pilot scope expanded: The business has covered 30 cities across the country, forming a multi-point flowering pattern such as Tianjin, Xiamen, Guangzhou, etc.
3、 Complete industrial supporting system
Logistics and warehousing advantages: Comprehensive Bonded Zones such as Dongjiang in Tianjin and Xiangyu in Xiamen provide services such as “tax refund upon entry” and bonded warehousing, optimizing the supply chain. Pre warehouses and overseas warehouses in Kashgar, Uzbekistan and other places further shorten logistics time.
Financial and trading platform: Dongjiang builds platforms such as “going global, expanding cooperation and win-win” to connect with vehicle sources, financial and overseas channel resources.
Overseas Service Network: Policies encourage enterprises to establish overseas maintenance service systems, set up after-sales service outlets, and ensure the supply of spare parts.
Summary: These three major advantages interact with each other to form the core competitiveness of China’s second-hand car exports. In the future, with further policy regulation and improvement of overseas networks, the industry is expected to transform into a comprehensive service model of “vehicle source certification+local after-sales+parts supply”.
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