GM says 2014 China auto sales up 12 percent year-on-year

Reuters

Published Jan 06, 2015 05:14

GM says 2014 China auto sales up 12 percent year-on-year

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - General Motors Co and its Chinese joint ventures sold a record 3,539,970 vehicles in China in 2014, up 12 percent from the previous year, the U.S. automaker said on Tuesday.

For the month of December, GM sold 357,375 vehicles, a rise of 31.9 percent from a year earlier.

The monthly gain followed a 5.3 percent year-on-year rise in November and a 3.2 percent rise in October.

GM has said it plans to invest $12 billion (8 billion pounds) in China between 2014 and 2017 and build five more plants to ramp up its manufacturing capacity.