It was a lot longer than a decade. China's 10th five year plan, introduced in *2001*, laid the groundwork for the EV transition. When I lived in Shenzhen, in 2009, the local government had already begun making the bus fleet electric-only. In 5 years they replaced them all - 16,000 in total.
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