China Car Price Cuts: Dealer Discounts & Registrations by City

Track how much car dealers in China are cutting prices, city by city, in one clean dataset. Data comes from the public local price lists of Dongchedi (懂车帝), one of China's biggest car platforms. No login, no browser.

• Dealer price cuts (降价): 600-730 models per city, each with the biggest discount (% off the guide price), the trim it applies to, the cut in 万 and the local dealer price range
• Every trim's prices (optional): guide price, local dealer price, cut, discount % and the price owners report paying
• Local new-car registrations (上牌量): the best-selling models in each city, 300-420 models in a big city
• Any city: 北京, 上海, 广州, 深圳, 成都, 苏州, 三亚, 拉萨 and hundreds more
• Monitoring: every record says whether it is new, changed or unchanged since your last run, or save only the changes

China's car price war is one of the biggest stories in the auto industry. This Actor turns it into data you can chart.

Use cases

• Price-war tracking for analysts, investors and journalists: which brands are cutting hardest, in which cities, this week.
• Carmakers and dealers: competitor discounts by model and trim, city by city.
• EV market research: battery EV, plug-in hybrid and range-extender discounts.
• Regional demand: which models people actually register in Shenzhen vs Beijing vs Chengdu.
• Alerts: schedule a daily run with "Only new or changed models" and send the results to Slack, email or Google Sheets.

Example input

{
  "cities": ["北京", "上海", "深圳"],
  "lists": ["priceCuts", "registrations"],
  "energyType": "all",
  "maxModelsPerCity": 200,
  "includeTrimPrices": true,
  "onlyChanges": false
}

Output

One record per model per city. A price cut:

{
  "type": "priceCut",
  "city": "北京",
  "rank": 1,
  "model": "奔驰EQE",
  "brand": "奔驰",
  "maxDiscountPct": 50,
  "maxDiscountCutWan": 23.9,
  "maxDiscountTrim": "2026款 EQE 500 4MATIC 先锋版",
  "dealerPriceMinWan": 23.9,
  "dealerPriceMaxWan": 38.6,
  "dealerPriceText": "23.90-38.60万",
  "changeStatus": "changed",
  "previousMaxDiscountPct": 46,
  "changeMaxDiscountPct": 4,
  "trims": [
    { "trim": "2026款 EQE 500 4MATIC 先锋版", "guidePriceWan": 47.8, "dealerPriceWan": 23.9, "cutWan": 23.9, "discountPct": 50, "ownerPaidPriceWan": null }
  ],
  "url": "https://www.dongchedi.com/auto/series/5813"
}

A local registration ranking entry:

{
  "type": "registration",
  "city": "深圳",
  "rank": 1,
  "model": "小米SU7",
  "brand": "小米汽车",
  "registrations": 843,
  "priceText": "21.99-30.39万"
}

Prices are in 万 (10,000 CNY), so 23.9 means ¥239,000. Model and brand names are kept in Chinese as published.

maxDiscountPct is the biggest discount of any trim; maxDiscountTrim and maxDiscountCutWan belong to that trim. Turn on Include every trim's guide and dealer price to see all trims.

Monitoring

With Compare with the last run (on by default) each record gets changeStatus (new, changed, unchanged, or first run) plus the previous value and the change: the max discount % for price cuts, and registrations for the registration ranking. The memory is kept in your Apify account between runs.

Turn on Only new or changed models to save, and pay for, only what moved since the last run. Use a different Memory name for each scheduled task.

Pricing

$0.001 per record (one model in one city). All price cuts in one big city (about 700 models) cost about $0.70; the top 100 cost $0.10. Trim prices are included at no extra charge.

Notes and limits

• Prices are local dealer quotes published by Dongchedi; actual prices at the dealer can differ.
• The registration ranking is Dongchedi's local new-car registration (上牌) ranking. Dongchedi does not state its time window; it is updated regularly.
• Use Chinese city names, or common English names like Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen. A city Dongchedi doesn't know is skipped with a warning.
• Only public data is collected.

Related

• China Car Sales Rankings: monthly national sales by model.

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