Report says rapid growth will see 170,000 vehicles in service by 2020

Car-sharing services will see fast growth in China in coming years, and the fleets of such service providers are expected to reach a collective 170,000 cars by 2020, according to a report by Strategy&, a subsidiary of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The figure represents more than 50 percent annual growth from about 30,000 cars in early 2016.

A Strategy& survey showed that 75 percent of users would like to use more of the service while 77 percent of those who have not used the service yet, would like to give it a try.