Volkswagen: Sales to top 2 million this year

Nation's biggest carmaker continues to increase market share

BEIJING - Karl-Thomas Neumann, president and CEO of Volkswagen Group China, said last week that the German auto giant will for the first time sell more than 2 million vehicles in China this year, up from the 1.92 million sold in 2010.

The target appears well within its grasp after the group's sales in the nation climbed by 16.4 percent year-on-year to almost 1.11 million units in the first six months.