{"id":1439,"date":"2007-08-18T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/chinas_new_middle_class_in_love_with_cars_big_cars\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T22:11:00","slug":"chinas_new_middle_class_in_love_with_cars_big_cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"China&#39;s new middle class in love with cars &#8211; big cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the frugal minicar that lured the Liu family to the showroom, but it was the full-size sedan that hooked them.<\/p>\n<p>Like countless other first-time auto buyers in China, the Lius were moving up in the world, and getting four wheels with plenty of steel was a key part of that process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A car! This means so much to us,&#8221; said Liu Yang, while her husband, Liu Yue, fiddled with the dashboard of the Chery Eastar sedan that they were about to buy in a showroom in suburban north Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest car-buying boom in world history is under way in China as vast numbers of people join the middle class, abandon their bicycles for autos and sport utility vehicles &#8211; and, in the process, add to China&#8217;s already fast-growing emissions of greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2007\/08\/18\/MNV8RIVTQ.DTL\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the frugal minicar that lured the Liu family to the showroom, but it was the full-size sedan that hooked them. Like countless other first-time auto buyers in China, the Lius were moving up in the world, and getting<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1439\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,502,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-china","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}