In September, the automobiles entered into the traditional peak season, in which the volume exceeded 2.6 million, the highest of the year, both up monthly and yearly. This month, the production and sales of automobiles in China reached 2,671,000 and 2,709,000 units respectively, up 27.6% and 23.9% than that of last month, and up 5.5% and 5.7% year on year.
For the first nine months, the production and sales of automobiles were 20,349,000 and 20,225,000 units respectively, up 4.8% and 4.5% year on year, 8.5 percentage points and 8.7 percentage points lower than the same period last year. Comparing with the first eight months, the accumulative growth of production increased 0.1 percentage points, and such of sales increased 0.2 percentage points.