Ministry of Commerce: Major indicators such as automobile production and sales from January to February exceed the same period in 2019

　　China News Service, March 12, according to the website of the Ministry of Commerce, from January to February 2021, as my country's economic situation stabilizes and improves, the potential of automobile consumption in small and medium-sized cities and county and township markets is gradually released, and new energy vehicles drive automobile sales growth. Indicators such as new car production and sales, automobile import and export volume, second-hand car transaction volume, and scrap motor vehicle recycling volume all exceeded the level of the same period in 2019.

Data map: automobile production line.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Chang

　　The cumulative production and sales of new cars exceeded the same period in 2019 by nearly 3%.

According to statistics from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the production and sales of new cars in February were 1.503 million and 1.455 million; the cumulative production and sales from January to February were 3.89 million and 3.958 million, an increase of 2.9% and 2.7% over the same period in 2019 .

Among them, the production and sales of new energy vehicles in February were 124,000 and 110,000 respectively; the cumulative production and sales from January to February were 317,000 and 289,000 respectively, an increase of 1.1 times and 96.1% over the same period in 2019.

　　The cumulative export volume of automobiles exceeded 86% in the same period in 2019.

According to preliminary statistics from the General Administration of Customs, a total of 160 thousand vehicles were imported from January to February, an increase of 3.9% over the same period in 2019; a total of 281,000 vehicles were exported, an increase of 86.1% over the same period in 2019.

　　The cumulative trading volume of used cars exceeded nearly 20% in the same period in 2019.

According to statistics from the China Automobile Dealers Association, in February, the national second-hand car transaction volume was 955,000; the cumulative transaction volume from January to February was 2.387 million, an increase of 19.1% over the same period in 2019.

　　The cumulative recycling volume of scrapped motor vehicles exceeded the same period in 2019 by nearly 15%.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce, in February, the number of motor vehicles recovered nationwide was 108,000; the cumulative number of vehicles recovered from January to February was 311,000, an increase of 14.7% over the same period in 2019.