Notice of Nine Departments Including the Ministry of Commerce on Several Measures to Cultivate and Expand Consumption in the Automobile Aftermarket

Recently, nine departments including the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the "Notice on Several Measures for Cultivating and Strengthening the Automobile Aftermarket Consumption" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), proposing a number of policy measures to stimulate the vitality of the automobile aftermarket.

The "Notice" puts forward 17 measures in six major areas, including automobile modification, RV camping, traditional classic cars, maintenance and insurance services, automobile racing, and automobile leasing. It aims to remove restrictive measures in the automobile aftermarket, optimize the supply of products and services, cultivate new business forms of automobile consumption, create new diversified consumption scenarios, fully stimulate the development vitality of the automobile aftermarket, and better meet the multi-level and diversified automobile consumption needs of the public.

The "Notice" requires that all regions should improve the working mechanism, earnestly implement relevant measures, strengthen work guidance and resource element guarantee for relevant pilot cities, make good use of existing fiscal funding channels, and support the cultivation and creation of service consumption scenarios in the automobile aftermarket. Relevant pilot cities for automobile circulation and consumption reform should focus on key directions, implement pilot tasks according to local conditions, and quickly form a batch of typical experience and practices that can be replicated and promoted, so as to continuously cultivate and strengthen automobile aftermarket consumption.

Next, the Ministry of Commerce will work with relevant departments to organize and implement all measures, form a synergy with the pilot work of automobile circulation and consumption reform, continuously track the implementation results of all measures, promptly coordinate and solve bottlenecks in the industry development, promote the expansion of scale, optimization of structure, and improvement of quality in the automobile aftermarket, unblock the entire chain of automobile production, circulation, consumption, and recycling, and continuously release the potential of automobile consumption.

The full text is as follows

In order to implement the deployment requirements of the "Work Plan for Accelerating the Cultivation of New Growth Points in Service Consumption" of the General Office of the State Council, remove unreasonable restrictive measures in the automobile aftermarket, cultivate new business forms, create new scenarios, stimulate the vitality of the automobile aftermarket, and better meet the diversified automobile consumption needs of the public, after consultations with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban - Rural Development, the following measures are proposed.

I. Regulate and develop automobile modification in an orderly manner

(1) Establish and improve the management system for automobile modification. Formulate policy documents to promote the development of the automobile modification market, clarify the implementation of hierarchical and classified management for automobile modification, determine the list of automobile modification projects, and improve management requirements such as vehicle inspection and change registration.

(2) Improve the standard system for automobile modification. Research and establish a sub - technical committee for automobile modification under the National Technical Committee for Standardization of Automobiles, sort out the list of standards to be revised, accelerate the formulation of a batch of national standards, and study and formulate technical specifications for automobile modification parts and modification.

(3) Enhance the high - quality supply capacity of the modification industry. Research and establish an access permission system for automobile parts used in modification. Research and improve the CCC certification system for automobile parts, and strengthen product quality, safety, and environmental protection supervision. Increase the training and management of professional technical talents in automobile modification, and encourage technical interaction between automobile racing institutions and civilian automobile modification enterprises. Optimize relevant services for compulsory liability insurance for motor vehicle traffic accidents and commercial insurance to support the standardized development of automobile modification.

II. Support the development of the RV camping industry

(4) Improve the environment for RV passage and use. Support local governments to optimize the management policies for RVs on the road. Simplify the approval process for RV camp land use.

(5) Improve the supporting service level of RV camps. In combination with regional cultural and tourism resources, encourage the construction of a batch of high - standard and multi - functional RV camps in areas along scenic roads and on the outskirts of cities, and improve supporting services such as maintenance and supply, water and electricity supply, medical rescue, and catering and accommodation. Optimize the setting of RV camp signs and release high - quality RV tourism routes. When newly building or renovating public parking lots in cities, if conditions permit, special parking spaces for self - propelled RVs and towed RVs can be set up and management can be strengthened to better meet the parking needs of RVs.

(6) Promote the upgrading of the RV manufacturing industry chain. Support regions with conditions to build RV industry clusters and cultivate leading enterprises with core technologies, full - industry chain integration capabilities, and international competitiveness. Guide enterprises to increase R & D investment and develop RV products that meet market demand, such as green, intelligent, lightweight, and age - friendly products.

III. Cultivate new business forms for traditional classic cars

(7) Improve the management measures for traditional classic cars. Formulate detailed rules and operating specifications for the identification of traditional classic cars based on the "General Requirements for Traditional Classic Cars" (GB/T 45194 - 2024), and carry out identification work for eligible traditional classic cars. Support relevant pilot cities for automobile circulation and consumption reform to explore the development of businesses such as traditional classic car trade, circulation transactions, exhibitions, and conditional road use, and formulate and improve supporting policy measures and supervision mechanisms. On the basis of local pilot projects, gradually improve the full - chain management system for traditional classic cars at the national level.

(8) Enrich the use scenarios of traditional classic cars. Encourage local governments to incorporate traditional classic cars into the cultural and tourism resource system. Support the holding of special activities such as traditional classic car races, brand salons, collection appreciation meetings, and cultural festivals. Support the development of supporting industries such as the reproduction of traditional classic car parts, whole - vehicle restoration, appraisal, and auction.

IV. Optimize the supply of automobile maintenance and insurance services

(9) Improve the policy and standard system for automobile maintenance. Strengthen the filing management of motor vehicle maintenance, and improve the standard specifications for new - energy vehicle maintenance. Deeply promote the disclosure of maintenance technical information, strengthen work guidance, improve the quality of information disclosure, and promote the standardized development of the maintenance industry.

(10) Strengthen the support capacity of maintenance services. Improve the credit management system for motor vehicle maintenance, and support automobile dealers and maintenance enterprises to establish a service system of "online reservation + offline maintenance". Encourage and guide maintenance enterprises to carry out intensive, professional, and brand - based chain operations. Automobile production enterprises should enrich the maintenance channels and parts supply channels for new - energy vehicles, and shall not restrict consumers from independently choosing enterprises for household automobile maintenance and upkeep, nor use it as a reason to refuse to assume the legal "three - package" responsibility. Guide new - energy vehicle manufacturers and power battery manufacturers to open up maintenance technology authorizations, encourage "repair instead of replacement", and improve the socialized maintenance service capacity for new - energy vehicles.

(11) Increase insurance service support. Implement the "Guiding Opinions on Deepening Reform, Strengthening Supervision, and Promoting the High - Quality Development of New - Energy Vehicle Insurance", further improve the insurance protection capacity and service level, and establish a comprehensive grading system for insurance vehicle models. Innovate and optimize the supply of vehicle insurance products, provide combined products of "basic + variable", and explore the "separation of vehicle and battery" insurance model.

V. Actively develop automobile racing sports

(12) Build a multi - level automobile racing system. Promote the construction of a multi - level automobile racing system led by well - known races, promoted by professional races, and popularized by experience races. Give full play to the advantages of the new - energy vehicle industry development, cultivate a number of national brands of new - energy vehicle races with core competitiveness, and strengthen intellectual property protection. Support relevant pilot cities for automobile circulation and consumption reform to introduce internationally well - known automobile races according to local conditions, improve the convenient import and export processes and models for racing cars, and strengthen the localization operation and innovation of the introduced races; build several national - level automobile sports consumption venues, and strengthen the comprehensive support capacity in terms of venue facilities, technical services, and race operations.

(13) Optimize the service management mechanism for races. Formulate and publish a guide for hosting automobile races, improve the ability and level of hosting races safely, and strengthen the standard process for hosting races. Encourage the hosting of mass sports events and support the implementation of local performance - type races. Encourage local governments to include the service for hosting automobile races in the list of key items for "efficiently completing one thing" to improve the convenience level of race hosting.

(14) Cultivate new consumption scenarios for automobile sports. Rely on local resource endowments to develop rally races, off - road races, rally events, kart races, circuit races, etc. according to local conditions, and create experience - type race activities for the general public. Deepen the integrated development of commerce, culture, tourism, sports, and health, integrate automobile races with local characteristic resources, create a batch of high - quality "traveling with races" routes, and enrich consumption scenarios.

(15) Strengthen the construction of the racing talent team. Support ordinary universities and vocational schools to offer majors related to automobile sports to cultivate professional talents such as drivers, technicians, coaches, referees, and racing operators. Establish a national registration information platform for racing talents, improve the evaluation system for racing talents, promote the optimal integration between the education end and the employment end, and provide talent support for the development of automobile races.

VI. Promote the innovative and integrated development of automobile leasing

(16) Support the integrated upgrading of the automobile leasing industry. Cultivate and strengthen business entities, promote the in - depth integration of leasing enterprises with the automobile industry, and unblock the industrial chain through models such as group purchasing, repurchase, second - hand car distribution, and second - hand car export. Support eligible automobile leasing and battery operation entities to enjoy policies such as loan interest subsidies.

(17) Improve the supply capacity of automobile leasing. Encourage automobile leasing enterprises to develop in a brand - based, chain - based, and large - scale manner, improve the service network for small and micro passenger car leasing, support the innovation of diversified service models such as "returning the car in a different place" and "leasing with an option to buy", as well as the innovation of automobile leasing insurance products, improve insurance services, and reduce consumers' vehicle - using costs.

The Ministry of Commerce will work with relevant departments to organize and implement relevant measures in this document, form a synergy with the pilot work of automobile circulation and consumption reform, and promptly coordinate and solve difficulties and demands reported by local governments and enterprises. All regions should improve the working mechanism, earnestly implement relevant measures; strengthen work guidance and resource element guarantee for relevant pilot cities, make good use of existing fiscal funding channels, support the cultivation and creation of service consumption scenarios in the automobile aftermarket, encourage pilot cities for new business forms, new models, and new scenarios of consumption to include eligible consumption scenarios in the support scope, and ensure the smooth progress and effectiveness of all work. Relevant pilot cities for automobile circulation and consumption reform should combine the requirements of this notice, focus on key directions, implement pilot tasks according to local conditions, and quickly form a batch of typical experience and practices that can be replicated and promoted, so as to continuously cultivate and strengthen automobile aftermarket consumption.

Ministry of Commerce        Ministry of Industry and Information Technology   Ministry of Public Security

Ministry of Transport    Ministry of Culture and Tourism   General Administration of Customs

State Administration for Market Regulation  National Administration of Financial Regulation   General Administration of Sport

June 18, 2026

(This article has been abridged)

Source: Ministry of Commerce website

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