In May, the sales and production of commercial vehicles witnessed decline both monthly and yearly, but the yearly decrease slowed down. This month, the production and sales were 287,300 and 294,500 units respectively, down 11.8% and 9.6% than that of last month. Comparing with last May, the production and sales were down 11.9% and 8.3% respectively. (Such figures in April were down 18.6% and 17.6% than the previous year)
         For the first five months, the production and sales of commercial vehicles reached 1,503,800 and 1,463,100 units respectively, down 17.4% and 17.3% year on year. As seen by type, the production and sales of buses were up 3.5% and 1.8% respectively than the previous year; while such figures for trucks were down 20.3% and 20.1%.