SEE THE NUMBER OF PICKUP TRUCK SOLD IN CHINA EVERY YEAR

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China, the world's biggest auto market in July this year, sold 1.5 million trucks in America. Together with 25 million in sales last year, less than 330,000 pickups sold in all of 2015.

Adding  to the new rules in four Chinese provinces that gives room for the previously-banned pickup trucks to drive on city streets, pickup sales could explode over the next few years.

In June from the year Pickup sales for the Chinese carmakers increased up to 36%, according to Bloomberg. Chinese brands like Great Wall are bringing new models as international brands Toyota tm and Ford eye the market, and Ford announced that it would officially bring its bulked-up  F-150 Raptor  to China beginning of nest next year, though you can already spot quite a few in affluent areas of Chinese cities, lovely to a thriving gray market.

Even as the rising popularity of trucks isn't universally welcomed, China still remains the world's largest emitter of carbon emissions.  Government policy has supported electric vehicles, but consumers are clamoring for bigger vehicles, making the country’s arms of reducing emissions and clearing city smog a tougher order.