New tech aims to reduce traffic deaths

In light of the high number of fatal crashes on Chinese roads, new technologies are being encouraged that will reduce the number of people killed.

According to a report by Chinese and German agencies at the First International Transportation Safety Expo, China's death toll from road accidents is second-highest in the world, behind India, with 63,093 people killed in 2016.

Moreover, the total number of road accidents in 2016 - 8.6 million - grew 16.5 percent year-on-year. And 21.4 people per 100,000 population in China were killed on the road, a 2.9 percent increase.