Summarize：www.chinabuses.org: The latest statistic data of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers shows that the production and the sales volume is 3.4072 million units and 3.3135 million units with the growth of 33% and 28% respectively. The year-on-year growth obviously increases in the last part of 2009 with a small pick-up in market demand.
Promoted by the state investment and the related policy such as "Car to the Countryside", the commercial vehicle market is recovering with the increasing positive trend in the first half of 2009. The production and the sales volume is 3.4072 million units and 3.3135 million units with the growth of 33% and 28% respectively. The year-on-year growth obviously increases in the last half of 2009 with a small pick-up in market demand. Affected by the competition of the railway transportation, the bus market is gloomy in 2009. However, the market decline is gradually decreasing with the obvious positive year-on-year growth since July. The total sales volume of buses (incomplete vehicles included) is 354.0 thousand units with year-on-year growth of 4%. The large buses sold 47.2 thousand units with year-on-year growth of 7.20%. The medium buses sold 81.9 thousand units with year-on-year growth of 4%. And the light buses sold 224.9 thousand units with year-on-year growth of 3%.
