Car = domestic manufacturing = moving up value chain = GDP growth = Stable well paying jobs
Bikes and walking doesn't produce the same economic activities.
Even if you don't agree with measurement of economic activities reasoning, China's car friendly policies gave birth to
creation of low cost EVs. Those low cost EVs comes at a cost, monetary and social costs. Without the Chinese government pouring in hundred of billions $ and Chinese cities designing to be car friendly, EV costs would have never dropped below $50000.
