GM says China sales hit record high in July
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An employee walks past new cars at a General Motors parking lot in Shenyang, Liaoning province on Aug 1, 2012. China's Ministry of Transport projected on Tuesday the country will have more than 200 million vehicles on the road by 2020, roughly double the number in 2011, according to Xinhua News Agency. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
SHANGHAI (AFP) - US auto giant General Motors said on Monday that its sales in China surged to a record 199,503 vehicles in July, defying a market slowdown and moves by a major Chinese city to limit car numbers.
GM's sales in China - the world's biggest auto market - rose 15.1 per cent in July from the same month last year, it said in a statement.
For the first seven months of this year, the auto giant sold more than 1.6 million vehicles in China, up 11.7 per cent year-on-year.
China's nationwide auto sales slowed last year after the government rolled back purchasing incentives and some cities imposed limits on car numbers to ease traffic congestion and cut pollution.
