According to China's quality watchdog, Nissan (China) Investment Company has announced that it will recall 421 imported Civilian passenger buses in mainland China due to design problems.

According to Beijing Youth Daily, Beijing will expand the use of electric vehicles in 2010 and will have a total of 5,000 new energy vehicles by 2012.

During a special campaign on automobile exhaust gases pollution, the Xi'an environment department prosecuted 560 automobiles for excessive gas emissions and blacklisted 35 of them for heavy pollution.

Guangzhou Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau has listed 895 diesel-powered buses for emission of black smoke among the city's bus routes.

Beijing-based Foton Automobile Company has signed a sales contract with Taiwan Chengyun Automobile Company to provide 75 Euro V hybrid buses.

China's Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Science and Technology have jointly issued a provisional measure on the management of government subsidies for energy-saving and alternative energy automobiles.

Beijing No. 1 Secondary Court has ordered three Chinese companies to pay more than CNY21.16 million in compensation to German-based bus manufacturer Neoplan for design patent infringement.