More than 100 workers at a Honda-affiliated auto parts plant in south China's Guangdong province continued a walkout over pay on Wednesday, forcing the company management into negotiations.
The city's political advisers said in a proposal to the government that measures to contain the growth of car ownership should be considered in the next five years.
German company BLG Logistics is actively seeking business opportunities in China as local automakers gear up to sell their cars in European markets.
Volkswagen AG (VW), Europe's largest carmaker, will spend 520 million euros ($622 million) to add a 10th plant in China as the country's car demand booms.
General Motors' joint venture in China, Shanghai GM, will recall about 4,000 imported Cadillac vehicles over fire risks, starting June 9, chinanews.com.cn reported, citing the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, to whom Shanghai GM filed the recall report.
Automakers in China saw auto sales climbed 53.25 percent from a year earlier to exceed 7.5 million units in the first five months of the year, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said in a statement released Tuesday.
Some auto-industry veterans said subsidies for fuel-efficient vehicles should be given directly to consumers, instead of being handed to manufactures, National Business Daily reported on June 8.
SAIC Motor, the listed arm of Chinese auto giant Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), said Tuesday its May vehicle sales rose 48.2 percent year-on-year to 289,239 units.
A senior Chinese official lauded Monday the successful cooperation between a famous Chinese car company and Daewoo Motors Egypt (DME).
China's monthly passenger vehicle sales continued to decline in May, bringing the risk of a glut to vehicle producers after they aggressively expanded production capacity in response to last year's unexpected market boom.
Enrollment in automotive vocational and technical institutes have more than doubled over the past five years, thanks to the rapid expansion of the auto industry in Beijing.
Chongqing Changan Automobile, Ford's car manufacturing partner, is in talks to produce a mid-sized car in China using Ford technology but carrying a Changan brand, two sources said on Monday.