China - First to EV market

80% of the electric cars on road worldwide are located in #China #US #Japan #Norway and the #Netherlands https://t.co/QPqJLqvjEi pic.twitter.com/NBixuepHq7

— IEA (@IEA) 22. August 2017

"China was by far the largest electric car market in 2016, with 336 thousand new electric cars registered." (iea.org - Global EV Outlook 2017).

China won clearly the "First to market" award thanks to

• ignoring mineral oil lobbyists, 
• setting up of regulations in their country and
• the need to improve air pollution.

It would be exciting to see their strategy to win the "Premium quality" and "Security" awards also in future. I assume this would be achieved by

• investing huge amounts of money,
• purchasing foreign specialists and
• copying existing western technologies.

Or am I wrong?

See also:
mckinsey.com - What can we expect in China in 2018?