it is symbolic until july 14, the national holiday of bastille day anastasia popova ilya bernadsky evgeny samsonov european bureau of news. now about the main event of this spring for the global automotive industry , one and a half thousand cars, three dozen premieres , more than a million visitors over the coming 10 days in shanghai opened the largest automobile exhibition in asia about what we will soon drive our own correspondent in china, alexander balitsky. winking car headlights at the shanghai motor show for the first time since the pandemic, it immediately presents all the best in the auto industry and bringing the latest models here is the dream of any auto giant, the chinese market, because the most desirable last year alone , the chinese bought more than 23 million cars. you know , it is very difficult to work in the chinese market. it is, of course, the largest, but also chinese buyers are very demanding. that's just on the eminent western stands of cars once or twice, and the interest in them was minimal, and all attention was paid to local automakers. somewhere that until recently wa