In April, the production and sales of commercial vehicles were 400,100 and 395,200 units respectively, down 11.8% and 13.9% than that of last month. Comparing with last April, the production and sales were down 0.2% and 1.3% respectively. No matter in monthly or yearly comparison, the sales and production of commercial vehicles witnessed a decline to some extent. From the perspective of auto type, both buses and trucks declined comparing with last month, especially trucks, over 10% of decrease. For yearly comparison, buses and trucks declined slightly in production. However in sales, buses were up while trucks were down.
        For the first four months, the production and sales of commercial vehicles reached 1,493,100 and 1,447,600 units respectively, up 5.5% and 3.3% year on year. Their growth rates decreased by 2.3 percentage points and 1.8 percentage points respectively than that of the first quarter.