Holiday doesn't dent car sales

Although the Lunar New Year holiday essentially shut down business for a week in February, domestic passenger vehicle sales still grew 18 percent year-on-year, exceeding industry expectations.

Excluding commercial vehicles, sales totaled 1,312,200, including cars, sport utility vehicles, multipurpose vehicles and minivans, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said on Monday.

Combined sales in the first two months were up 11.3 percent to 3,159,000.