China car sales fall in May

Xinhua | Updated: 2019-06-12 15:59

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Visitors take photographs of a Tesla electric car at a recent automobile exhibition held in Beijing. [Photo by Long Wei / For China Daily]

BEIJING - Car sales in China dropped in May, with about 1.913 million vehicles sold last month, down by 16.4 percent year-on-year, industrial data showed Wednesday.

Sales of passenger vehicles totaled 1.561 million, falling 17.4 percent compared with May 2018, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

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