CCTV News: On May 2, the 2025 Shanghai Auto Show came to an end. This car event, which was extended to the May Day holiday for the first time, has formed a linkage with auto shows in many places across the country, injecting strong vitality into the holiday auto market.
According to statistics, the 2025 Shanghai Auto Show attracted a total of 1.01 million visitors at home and abroad. Among them, 63,000 overseas visitors from 97 countries and regions were reached. It is worth mentioning that this auto show not only extended to the May Day holiday for the first time, but also established exclusive consumption coupons in collaboration with the Cultural, Tourism, Business and Sports Exhibition for the first time, with the cumulative consumption exceeding one million yuan, injecting strong vitality into the urban consumer market.
Gu Chunting, vice president of the Shanghai Municipal Commission for Promotion of International Trade, introduced that they launched the app to purchase tickets at the Shanghai Auto Show, linking some other tourism and cultural projects. The audience not only visited the auto show, but also went to other well-known tourist attractions in Shanghai to have a leisure trip. Suzhou Auto Show debuted on May Day to release consumption potential
Along with the end of the Shanghai Auto Show, Suzhou Auto Show took over the baton on May Day. The exhibition area of more than 100,000 square meters brings together more than 100 global car brands and more than 1,000 popular models. Coupled with various policy subsidies and discounts, it fully releases the consumption potential of the May Day holiday.
Peng Jianming, the head of the organizer of the Suzhou Auto Show, introduced that the state exchange for new subsidies, Suzhou's new energy vehicle subsidies, and multiple car purchase subsidies. Major auto manufacturers have also launched exclusive "sprint price" and "one-time price" and other preferential policies for limited-time 5-day auto show, to create the best car purchase opportunity of the year for consumers. Intelligent and new energy vehicle models have become the main force in driving consumption
According to incomplete statistics, during the May Day in 2025, more than 80 cities across the country held nearly 100 auto shows of different sizes. Various places have ignited the consumption engine through auto show linkage, and activated the consumer market with policy dividends and technological trends.
It is understood that at major auto shows, intelligent and new energy vehicles have become the main force driving consumption. Data shows that the proportion of new energy vehicles in auto show in many places accounts for more than 60%, and the concept of green consumption is accelerating its penetration.
