Summarize：www.chinabuses.org: In the first half of 2014, sales of domestic buses (referring to complete buses, same as below) accounts to 243,100 units up by 7.0% compared with the same period last year. Growth of the first three months is remarkable however the growth rate dropped from April. Then in June, sales dropped to 45,301 unites which is lower than last year's 45,345 units, which may contributed to the overconsuming triggered by the implement of National Ⅳ Standard.
In types of buses, light buses made a good performance in the first half year with a cumulative sales of 182,000, up by 13.1% on last year, which brought up the whole bus market to growth. The market share of light buses up by 4.1% to 74.9%.
In the first half year, the sale top ten light bus manufactures are Jinbei, Jiangling, NAC, Foton AUV, King Long, Golden Dragon, Chang'an, SAIC, Higer, Dongfeng, of which the growth of Chang'an is most remarkable which is 8008 units up by a sharp 181.5%. The growth rate of King Long, Golden Dragon and SAIC is also above 20%.
Compared with light buses, large and medium bus market is not positive. Sales of medium buses in the first half year dropped by 14.5%, from last year's 30600 units to 26200 units, sharing 10.8% of the whole bus market. Sales of large buses in the first half year declined by 2.1% to 34900 units sharing 14.4% of the market.
