In September, the production and sales of commercial vehicles reached 374,000 and 367,000 units respectively, up 23.3% and 17.9% than that of last month. Comparing with last September, the production and sales were up 25% and 23.9%. The commercial vehicles kept rapid growth, except for the trucks, the buses this month enjoyed growth as well. This month, the sales of trucks and buses reached 47,000 units and 319,000 units respectively, up 7.5% and 26.8% year on year.
For the first nine months, the production and sales of commercial vehicles reached 3,021,000 and 3,074,000 units respectively, up 16% and 17.9% year on year, 11.2 percentage points and 13.4 percentage points higher than the overall growth. As seen by type, the production and sales of buses were down 9% and 8.8% than the previous year. Such figures for trucks were up 20.3% and 22.4%. The trucks continued growing rapidly.