In June, the production and sales of passenger cars reached 1,772,000 and 1,784,000 units respectively, keeping in line in production while down 0.5% in sales than that of last month, but up 11.4% and 17.7% year on year, continuing to grow on yearly basis, 0.9 percentage points and 3.1 percentage points higher than the overall growth of automobiles.
        For the first half, the production and sales of passenger cars were 11,099,000 and 11,042,000 units respectively, up 7.3% and 9.2% year on year. Comparing with the first five months, the growth rates enlarged 0.7 percentage points and 1.4 percentage points respectively. As for the passenger cars by type, comparing with the same period of last year, SUV continued a high-speed growth, of which the production and sales were up 42.7% and 44.3%. MPV also enjoyed a growth, with an increase of 12.3% and 18.1% in production and sales respectively. As for cars, the production and sales witnessed decline, down 5.5% and 3.9% respectively. Moreover, the situation of crossed passenger cars was even worse, of which such figures decreased by 33.9% and 32.6%.
        In June, the sales of passenger cars with engine capacity of 1.6L and below reached 1,292,000 units, up 30.3% year on year, 12.6 percentage points higher than the overall growth of the passenger cars. The sales accounted for 72.4% of the total sales of passenger cars.