The sales and production of commercial vehicles increased year on year
2016/05/19

In March, the production and sales of commercial vehicles reached 377,000 and 384,000 units respectively, up 80.1% and 87.9% than that of last month, and up 6.4% and 3.8% year on year. In 2015 only in June and October, the production and sales of commercial vehicle monthly production volume is higher than a year ago, the remaining 10 month is fell. For the first quarter, the production of commercial vehicles in March achieved positive growth, as well as the monthly sales achieved positive growth in February and March. As seen by type, the production and sales of trucks pulled this month year on year growth of commercial vehicles. On the contrary, the production and sales of passenger cars decline on yearly basis.
        This month, the sales of trucks increased 5% than a year earlier, of which the heavy duty were up 10.4%, medium and light duty were down 1.8%, 0.5% respectively, while the mini duty were up 20.6%.
        For the first quarter, the production and sales of commercial vehicles reached 888,000 and 858,000 units respectively, the production down 0.3% and the sales up 1.2% year on year. As seen by type, the production and sales of buses were down 8.4% and 9.2% than the previous year. Such figures for trucks were up 1.1% and 3.1%.