BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhua) -- China’s auto production and sales volume reached 11.768 million units and 11.792 million units from January to May, an increase of 3.8 percent and 5.7 percent respectively, according to the statistics released by China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
Data showed that China's auto production and sales growth from January to May increased by 2.06 percentage points and 0.93 percentage points respectively compared with that of January-April.
Among them, China produced 9.9229 million units and sold 9.9008 million units of passenger cars during the period, up 2.96 percent and 5.09 percent year on year respectively. Meanwhile, the country produced 1.8451 million units and sold 1.8917 million units of commercial vehicles during the period, up 8.89 percent and 9.10 percent year on year respectively.
From January to May, the production and sales of new energy vehicles in China have both reached 328,000 units, an increase of 122.9 percent and 141.6 percent respectively from the same period of last year.
SAIC, Chang'an and Geely ranked the top three companies in terms of sales volume from January to May. (Edited by Ma Xin, maxin11@xinhua.org)
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