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The 10th Asia BAAV bus selection was held in Shanghai New Exhibition Center from May 3th, 2010. Since entered in China since 2001, China bus industry has gone through purely technology introduction to innovation to narrow gaps with developed countries. Asia 2010 would be held from May 6th to May 8th, 2010, which is also the first week since opening ceremony of Shanghai World Expo, and this will definitely be a good opportunity for China bus and coach industry.
Sonia, general secretary of Asia 2010
With efforts of General Secretary of Asia 2010, Sonia has invited experts from bus builders, passenger transport companies, vehicle safety experts, as well as accidentologist to make the jury. And these European experts, together with two Chinese experts, scored the buses and coaches on safety, emission, noise, easy operation etc items. The safety squad are composed of Hans Kuipers, senior journalist and auto accidental experts, Sonja and Dr. Patrick Botto, professional safety expert on Europe. And they checked active safety, passive safety and braking of all the buses. In respect of emission check, we may see that compared with domestic standards, European emission standards is much more rigid. And domestic new energy buses come out many problems, like safety and operation under European standards.
Jury members busying with checking buses
Sonia told journalist that she hopes to set a bridge between China and Europe bus industry. And this year, safety and environmental protection are still the focus. More and more Chinese bus builders are making efforts on development and manufacturing of new energy buses. And she hopes to deepen communication between Chinese bus builders and European counterparts.