In May, the automobiles continued to grow comparing with a year earlier. This month, the production and sales of automobiles in China reached 2,344,000 and 2,288,000 units respectively, down 2.3% and 1.4% than that of last month, but up 12.8% and 9.6% year on year. Due to the low base of last year, this month the growth rates increased 12.2 percentage points and 9.7 percentage points respectively.
　　For the first five months, the production and sales of automobiles were 11,768,000 and 11,792,000 units respectively, up 3.8% and 5.7% year on year. The sales growth increased 2 percentage points than the same period last year, and 0.9 percentage points higher than the first four months.