On January 6th of 2009, the “Electric Vehicles for Ten Cities” Project Kick-off & Hundred Hybrid Buses Launch Ceremony was held in Wuhan, Hubei province. Vice-Chairman of CPPCC National Committee and Minister of Science and Technology WAN Gang cut the ribbon at the event, and test-took Dongfeng hybrid bus. Hubei provincial governor LI Hongzhong, Secretary of Wuhan municipal committee YANG Song, and Wuhan Mayor RUAN Chengfa attended the ceremony. 

   
To promote the industrialization and the application of electric vehicles, and to solve the conflict between scale and cost during the initial promotion period of hi-tech products, MOST and the Ministry of Finance jointly initiated the “Electric Vehicles for Ten Cities” project. It aims to launch 1000 new energy vehicle for test-running in each of ten cities per year for 3 years running. Wuhan was selected as one of the 6 pilot cities.