China March vehicle sales up 7.8% year on year

[BEIJING] China's vehicle sales in March rose 7.8 per cent from a year earlier, data from China Passenger Car Association showed on Monday.

Auto sales totaled 1.92 million, the association said in a statement on its website.

For the January-March period, vehicle sales rose 6.8 per cent from the same period in 2015, it said.

The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), whose statistics are generally viewed as the benchmark for the industry, is expected to report wholesale data for March on Tuesday.

REUTERS