Beijing has over 200,000 electric vehicle charging piles.

BEIJING -- Beijing has built 200,900 charging piles for electric vehicles as the country encourages the use of green vehicles to tackle pollution, the city's municipal commission of urban management said Friday.

Private car owners have added 152,600 charging piles in their parking lots, while shopping malls, wholesale markets, tourist sites, freight transport hubs, government agencies, bus and taxi service operators and sanitation authorities have built 48,300 charging piles.

The city earlier pledged to improve the electric vehicle charging infrastructure in its three-year clean air action plan (2018-2020) and has met its...