For the first two months, the production and sales of passenger cars reached 3,559,000 and 3,613,000 units respectively, both up 5.1% year on year. Their growth rates decreased 5.8 percentage points and 3.6 percentage points.
      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 53.1% and 54.8%. MPV also enjoyed a growth, with an increase of 9.7% and 13.6% in production and sales respectively. As for cars, the production and sales witnessed decline, down 11.9% and 12.5% respectively. Moreover, the situation of crossed passenger cars was even worse, of which such figures decreased by 28.4% and 36.4%.
      For the first two months, the sales of passenger cars with engine capacity of 1.6L and below reached 2,566,000 units, up 5.5% year on year, 0.4 percentage points higher than the overall growth of the passenger cars. The sales accounted for 71% of the total sales of passenger cars.