for nightly business report, i'm diana olick in crystal city virginia. >>> coming up, automakers want bigger share of the lucrative chinese market, but what do china's consumers want when they buy a car? we will take you to the show rooms in beijing. >>> finally tonight, the u.s. isn't the only place to see cars rushing out of showrooms, the same thing is going on in china and that's thanks to the growing middle class there consumers are eager to buy many of the same luxury brands american buyers will lust after. as we are shown, buying a car in china is a whole lot different. >> reporter: the man behind the wheel is just the person carmakers want in their dealerships. jam jo as well. an upwardly mobile professional in beijing. after seven years of driving a volkswagen polo, he is upgrading his car and we are going shop i with him. >> the car gave me the freedom. i do like this, the options of freedom the car make. >> reporter: first, the goes online, chinese people have little brand loyalty so purchasing a car requires extensive research. >> the internet, somebody else is just the re

diana olick, cnbc, crystal city, virginia. >> short commute is always a good idea. the u.s. former treasury official tim massa to be the next chairman of the commodity futures trading commission. he he's tasked with overseeing the options and futures market. the senate also signed off on two other nominees to fill vacancies at the cftc. >>> the u.s. utility nrg energy is close to a deal to buy north america's biggest wind farm for more than $800 million. "the wall street journal" reports the purchase could be announced today. the move comes just a few days after the obama administration unveiled plans to reduce carbon emissions from u.s. power plants by 30% in the next two decades. the rules would likely impact coal fired plants the most. nrg stock in frankfurt doesn't seem to be trading at the moment. >>> elon musk says he plans to stay on as tesla's ceo for at least another four to five years. he's told shareholders at the company's annual meeting that he's committed to be with the firm through the production launch of tesla's coming third generation car which could start

. >> sparse space in crystal city, virginia, more than a dozen small companies barely stand out from. >> what we're doing is doing it top down from here, saying hey, let's dangle all this money in front of the high growth companies, and let's make them a compelling offer of where they can live, work and play. >> venture capitalist paul has funded hundreds of startups but noticed a new niche. >> the gap in the middle where you have revenue, whether a million bucks in revenue, seven in ten people working for you, hard to raise the money you need at that gap. but also hard to find office space. where do you put them? >> if the $50 million crystal tech fund you put them here in a work space owned by one of the nation's largest publicly traded reits which happens to be an investor in the fund. >> crystal city has always been and will continue to be a strategic value oriented location. we happy to have 26 buildings, 8 million square feet in this location. >> now what's so interesting here is that they don't want to just build the office space, they want to create an ecosystem. that is, bri

walter reed national military medical center in ba these da and we have an office in crystal city, arlington, virginia, and we also have a small office at madigan army medical center in tacoma, washington. >> and walter reed sunday the aegis of the dod, but this center for visual excellence -- one of them is located at walter reed, is that right? >> yes, sir. this is dr. mccarthy again. the vision center of excellence is a joint effort between dod and va, and of the centers of excellence, dod authorized navy to be involved with this. so it's a partnership between the navy on behalf of dod with va. >> that clears up something. i have been to walter reed and saw the center, and so i thought is that the same center? nevertheless we're still having problems with the registry being populated. the registry is waiting for the contracts to be filled and you're saying by the end of fiscal 2015 is when we expect this registry work to be done or begin? >> no, sir. dr. mccarthy again. the registry contract is out for bid at this point. it's on the streets and we'll have the bids in by mid june, and we expect it t