Profile of China's auto sales & production in H1 2012

China’s auto sales amounted to 9.60 million units in the first half of 2012, a slight increase of 2.93 percent over the corresponding period of last year, according to statistics released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM).

Motor vehicle output totaled 9.53 million units in the first six months of this year, up 4.08 percent year on year.

China’s auto sales in June came to 1.58 million units, up 9.86 percent year on year but down 1.66 percent month on month, while the monthly output gained 9.09 percent year on year but fell 2.37 percent month on month to 1.53 million units, according to CAAM.

 Table 1:Chinaauto sales in June and in H1 2012

Table 2:Chinaauto output in June and in H1 2012

The following chart showsChina’s monthly auto output and sales since January 2011 (in unit):

 Here is another chart showingChina’s auto sales since January 2011 (in unit):

-- Passenger vehicles

A total of 1.28 million sedans, multi-purpose vehicles (MPV), sports-utility vehicles (SUV) and crossovers were sold inChinain June, up 15.77 percent from a year earlier and 0.24 percent from the preceding month.

Output in the same month fell 0.79 percent month on month but gained 12.20 percent year on year to 1.26 million units.

The following table shows the sales of major sub-type passenger vehicles in June and in the first six months of 2012:

Here is another chart showingChina’s monthly passenger vehicle output since January 2011 (in unit):