China's fifth-cities, "No Car Day", 142 cities participated in the nationwide "no car day" campaign, which appeared in some cities more serious than usual congestion situation, part of the city's small-scale "pilot car-free" area was even to the travel of those questioned.

"No Car Day" originated in France in 1998, experienced a slogan raised by the youth activities to the Minister for the Environment Initiative of the process. This aims to arouse public attention to environmental issues, promoting green living activities, and soon gained world-wide response, and then evolved into today's "World Car Free Day."

Following the 2001 held in Chengdu became China's first "no car day" campaign of the city, Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and other cities after another spontaneously join. And this activity eventually widely across the country, but also in 2006, to the National Department of Housing and initiated all cities in China Car Free Day initiative. The following year the first Car Free Day activities in China, there are 108 cities in the country, this figure increased year after year, only today's scale.

In addition, there are also non-governmental environmental organizations advocated other time of the "No Car Day" activities. You can see, as reiterated the concept of environmental protection, reflect a modern lifestyle as a means of launching the "No Car Day" activities by civil society organizations and local governments is widely recognized.

However, the "No Car Day" is not the way to improve urban congestion, vehicle ban in the designated area of ​​the city that day, and have actually appeared more congested area around the embarrassment. Virtually cut congestion inconvenience the public participation enthusiasm.

"No Car Day" is noted as a green city life direction of travel, but also to remind people to face a "car" of reality. As of the end of August this year, car ownership in China more than 100 million, second only to America's "car power." Taking into account the scale of China's economy continues to expand, the future car ownership is still significant room for growth.

For modern people, not just a transport vehicle, it played a certain extent, communication plays a "narrow" the role distance, which expanded the radius of people's lives, to extend the range of city life. Therefore, the car's development is the inevitable trend of urbanization. With the accelerated pace of urbanization, China's entry into the automotive era to face the accompanying test.

Automobile age should take full account of cars to be understood on the basis of incremental. In the automotive manufacturing sector, to encourage and develop energy-saving environmentally friendly vehicles; in car consumption, for consumers to buy energy-saving vehicles to provide more policy support. Urban traffic management, use of a relatively flexible means of approach, different regions, different times, different time-limit lines without losing necessary. Through environmental taxes and other indirect "control" means the car can also be taken into account in the relevant legislation. On the other hand, we must increase the intensity of the construction of urban public transport, increasing bike lanes, to provide more choice of an alternative way to travel.

It is noteworthy that, even if "no car day" can not serve as an urban norm, to solve urban traffic problems exist. But as a modern public activities, global environmental protection "ceremony" of a fact is a part of modern public life, citizenship is through such activities to touch in public life. Although it may bring short-term inconvenience of life, but still want to hold the public's negative attitude is not complaining, but actively participate in the.