The sales and production of commercial vehicles kept decline
2015/05/19

In April, the sales and production of commercial vehicles enjoyed decline than that of last month, and still witnessed a dramatic decrease comparing with the same period of last year. It is no obvious change of the decline situation, of which the drop of trucks was the key factor. Besides, buses enjoyed a slightly increase of production, while sales decreased than the previous year. This month, the production and sales of commercial vehicles were 325,600 and 325,700 units respectively, down 8.3% and 12% than that of last month. Comparing with last April, the production and sales were down 18.6% and 17.6% respectively.
        For the first fourth months, the production and sales of commercial vehicles reached 1,217,200and 1,170,900 units respectively, down 18.5% and 19.1% year on year. As seen by type, the production and sales of buses were up 5.7% and 1.4% respectively than the previous year; while such figures for trucks were down 21.7% and 22%.