Record 10-millionth vehicle

Li Rongrong (second from right), chairman of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, with a Jiefang J6 heavy-duty truck last Friday during a ceremony to mark the 10-millionth vehicle made in China this year. The landmark model rolled off the FAW Group Corp assembly line in the northeastern city of Changchun, cradle of the nation's automotive industry. China is now the third country in the world to pass the 10 million vehicle production mark after the US and Japan.

(China Daily 10/26/2009 page6)