China has over 350 mln electric bicycles

BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The number of electric bicycles has exceeded 350 million in China, where a total of 42.28 million electric bicycles were manufactured last year.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, over 20 percent of new electric bicycles produced by the country's major brands are lithium battery-powered models.

From Nov. 1 this year, a set of compulsory safety stan