Off the wire
• Chinese airline rewards crew, passengers for subduing arsonist  • Roundup: Singapore stocks end up 0.01 pct  • Eurozone retail trade down by 0.6 pct in June  • Sweden sees rise in reported hate crimes  • Bulgaria issues yellow alert over heatwave  • British services PMI falls to 57.4 in July  • U.S. aircrafts arrive at Incirlik airbase for battle against IS: Turkish FM  • 1st LD Writethru: Abe to release WWII statement on Aug. 14: official  • Senior CPC official calls for innovation-driven development  • Roundup: S. African gov't warns of suspending mining operations over job cuts  
You are here: 　 Home

Chinese carmaker Chery sales up 17 percent in sluggish market

Xinhua, August 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Chinese carmaker Chery posted robust growth on Wednesday, despite a sluggish auto market performance.

Chery said its sales in the first half of 2015 surged 17 percent from the same period last year, with 252,439 vehicles sold in the first six months.

Chery's strong sales stood out in the sluggish Chinese auto market.

China's total car sales rose only 1.4 percent in the first half this year, according to China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

Chery exported 50,130 passenger vehicles between January and June. The company's overseas sales made up 26.7 percent of the exports of Chinese brand passenger vehicles.

Jin Yibo, a senior executive at Chery, attributed the strong sales to the company's strategic transformation.

"The company has made significant improvement in products quality and marketing ability," Jin said. Endi