In January, the passenger cars kept a good momentum to drive the overall growth, of which the monthly production hit another record after last December.
        This month, the production and sales of passenger cars were 1,969,300 and 2,038,000 units respectively, up 1.4% in production but down 1.1% in sales than that of last month, and up 15.1% and 10.4% comparing with the same period of last year.
        As for the month by type, SUV and MPV continued a high-speed growth, of which the production and sales of SUV were up 50.7% and 51.1%, and such figures for MPV were up 30.1% and 17.3%. The growth rates of the production and sales of cars were 7.8% and 2.2%. However, the production and sales of crossed passenger cars decreased by 26.1% and 24.3%.