Green cars can drive forward green economy

The ongoing surge in China's production of new energy cars is more than welcome. Although the total number of green cars is far from enough to ensure a substantial change in China's energy consumption pattern anytime soon, its accelerated growth should give a huge boost to policymakers at home and abroad who are desperate to find ways to slow global warming and spur economic growth.

The latest statistics show that in the first half of this year, Chinese automakers produced 78,500 new energy vehicles, including pure electric and hybrid vehicles, a threefold surge over the same period last year.

Compared with the country's annual production of more than 20 million vehicles, it is more than obvious that the production of new energy cares is still of little significance to the balance sheets of most domestic automakers.