· China Automobile Association: January commercial vehicles fell more than passenger cars

On February 9, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (hereinafter referred to as "China Automobile Association") released a message saying that due to the reduction of effective working days in the same month of New Year's Day and Spring Festival, and the higher base of sales and sales in the same month last year, the car was not seen in January this year. “Opening the door”, production and sales have seen a significant decline in the chain and year-on-year, of which commercial vehicles fell more than passenger cars.

According to the data of China Automobile Association, in January, the production of automobiles was 1,299,400 units, a decrease of 23.20% from the previous month and a decrease of 27.47% from the same period of last year. The sales volume was 1.398 million units, down 17.75% from the previous month and down 26.39% from the same period last year.

In this regard, Dong Yang, vice president and secretary general of the China Automobile Association, said that since there are two festivals in January, the effective working day is only 17 days, 4 days less than the same period of the previous year. This is the main reason; The monthly production and sales of automobiles was about 1.8 million units in the highest month of the year, and the higher base in the same period was the second reason. Therefore, it is difficult to see the annual trend from the January data alone. The automobile production and sales trend must be combined with the data of January and February, or even the first three months to make a full-year judgment.

From the data, passenger car and commercial vehicle production and sales both showed negative growth and year-on-year growth. Commercial vehicle production and sales both fell by more than 20%, and sales volume dropped significantly more than passenger cars. Dong Yang explained that due to the annual January and even the spring. It is not the peak season for commercial vehicles, which is affected by seasonality. In addition, the sales base of this year is relatively high, and it seems that the decline of commercial vehicles this year is more obvious.

Despite the sharp decline in production and sales in January, it achieved a good start in terms of exports. According to the export data of automobile manufacturers by the China Automobile Association, the export of automobile enterprises in January was 56,300 units, an increase of 0.49% from the previous month and an increase of 8.32% year-on-year. After the sharp increase in automobile exports last year, automobile exports continued to grow in January.