国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

   

January car sales soar in China despite winter storms

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-02-15 16:01

China passenger vehicle sales soared to a monthly high in January, with the worst winter storms in half a century failing to dampen the country's increasing love for cars, an industry group said.

Related readings:

 Passenger car sales rise 23% in first 11 months
 October passenger car sales rev up by 21 percent
 Xiamen Golden Dragon launches first passenger car
 Boom in passenger car sector expected

Chinese car makers sold 639,000 passenger vehicles last month, up 32 percent from the same period in 2006 and 6.7 percent up from December, according to the China Passenger Car Association.

January sales exceeded those in the previous month for the first time in recent years, despite coming at a time when dealers usually try various measures to reduce stock in hope of bumping up sales figures before the year end, it said.

Sedans accounted for three-quarters of the January figure, while sport utility vehicles (SUV) sales jumped 60.5 percent year on year to 32,000 units, nearly twice as fast as the industry average.

Passenger vehicle production was up 14.5 percent year on year to 566,000 units. This included 423,000 sedans, 35,000 SUVs and 14,500 mini-vans.

Sales in February, which only has 18 workdays due to the Spring Festival holiday, were likely to be as high as 400,000 units because the freak winter weather had delayed some January deliveries, the association said.

Vehicle production and sales in the country both surged more than 20 percent to a record 8.8 million units last year, in contrast to weakening sales worldwide.

In total, China, the world's second largest car market, produced 6.38 million passenger vehicles and sold 6.3 million units last year.

The association forecasts imported passenger vehicle sales would continue to outpace those of locally-made units this year.

Demand for imported high-end cars would remain strong as they only had a few local rivals. In addition, domestic oil prices were rather low and the country has a growing rank of nouveau riche, it said.

The market for indigenous low-emission cars was weakening domestically, while 81 percent of imported SUVs and 70 percent of imported sedans had engines larger than 2.5 liters last year, both up 20 percentage points from a year earlier.


(For more biz stories, please visit Industry Updates)



虹口区| 鹤峰县| 洛扎县| 察隅县| 镇雄县| 松滋市| 吉林省| 大理市| 苍山县| 巴里| 安化县| 垦利县| 藁城市| 蓬溪县| 金坛市| 新和县| 华容县| 板桥市| 炎陵县| 玉屏| 德兴市| 南郑县| 南通市| 叙永县| 鄂托克前旗| 昌黎县| 沂水县| 渭南市| 吴桥县| 神农架林区| 秦皇岛市| 郓城县| 筠连县| 彰化县| 凤城市| 栖霞市| 临武县| 水富县| 葵青区| 旅游| 宁武县|