SAIC Motor sees 12% vehicle sales growth
Updated: 2011-12-31 16:56
(Xinhua)
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SHANGHAI - SAIC Motor Corp Ltd, China's largest publicly traded automaker, Friday said it sold 4.01 million vehicles this year, up 11.9 percent from a year ago.
The sales growth was much higher than the around 3 percent growth for the whole industry in the world's largest auto market.
Following 32-percent growth in 2010, China's auto market saw much slower growth this year after scrapping small-car tax incentives and imposing purchase restrictions in Beijing.
Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng urged the carmaker to have its own core technology and brands to build itself into a competitive transnational company.
The Shanghai-based SAIC Motor has set up research and development (R&D) centers in Shanghai, Nanjing and Britain's Birmingham with a 2,000-member-strong R&D team, according to a press release.
The partner of Volkswagen and General Motors also said in the statement that it expects to unveil an own-brand plug-in hybrid car and an own-brand electric car next year.
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