China's August car sales rose 8.5% from the previous month to 2.453 million units - Chinese media

On the 10th, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers announced the status of industrial production and sales of automobiles in August. According to the published data, China's automobile production in August was 2.492 million units, and sales were 1.28 million units.
The number of vehicles sold in China was 2.453 million, up 9% and 8.5% respectively from the previous month. The number of vehicles sold in China was 1.942 million, up 8.3% and 1.2% from the previous month.
The number of automobile exports was 511,000 units, up 9% from the previous month and up 25.4% from the same month last year.
Meanwhile, automobile production volume in the first eight months of this year increased 2.5% year-on-year to 18,674,000 units.
00 units, and sales increased 3% to 18,766,000 units. The growth rates of production and sales were down 0.9 percentage points and 1.3 percentage points, respectively, from the January-July period.
Domestic automobile sales in January-August fell 1.8% to 14,992,000 units, while exports increased 28.3% to 3,773,000 units.