In April, the sales and production of passenger cars kept decrease compare to last month, but still kept increase year on year. This month, the production and sales were 1,754,100 and 1,668,800 units respectively, down 9% and 10.8% than that of last month, and up 5.2% and 3.7% year on year, The growth rate declined 6.1 and 7.9 percentage points respectively.
        For the first fourth months, the production and sales of passenger cars reached 7,063,700 and 6,973,900 units respectively, up 9.4% and 7.7% year on year, the growth rate declined 0.4 and 2.8 percentage point respectively. As for the passenger cars by type, comparing with the same period of last year, SUV continued a high-speed growth, of which the production and sales were up 49.8% and 48.7%. MPV also enjoyed over 15% growth, with an increase of 17.1% and 20% in production and sales respectively. As for cars, the production and sales were down 0.5% and 2.7% respectively. Moreover, the production and sales were decrease 14.9% and 17.5% respectively for crossed passenger cars.