Data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers shows that in 2025, my country's automobile production and sales will total 34.531 million units and 34.4 million units, a year-on-year increase of 10.4% and 9.4% respectively. Production and sales have reached a record high, ranking first in the world for 17 consecutive years.
In 2025, domestic sales of automobiles will be 27.302 million units, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%. Among them, domestic sales of traditional fuel vehicles were 13.427 million units, a year-on-year decrease of 4%.
The export growth rate is huge. The annual automobile export exceeded 7 million units, reaching 7.098 million units, a year-on-year increase of 21.1%, and it continued to retain the global automobile export champion.
For passenger cars,my country's annual passenger car production and sales reached 30.27 million units and 30.103 million units respectively, a year-on-year increase of 10.2% and 9.2% respectively, both exceeding the 30 million mark.
Looking at it by country,Chinese brand passenger cars sold a total of 20.936 million units last year, a year-on-year increase of 16.5%, with a market share of 69.5%, 4.3 percentage points higher than the same period last year.
This means that for every 10 passenger cars sold in China, 7 are Chinese independent brands.
For comparison, the market share of joint venture and foreign-owned brands is 31.5%. Among them, German cars have the highest share at 12.1%, Japanese cars 9.7%, American cars 5.9%, and Korean cars 1.5%.
However, unlike the rapid growth in sales of domestic brands, the sales of joint venture brands in the Chinese market have been declining year after year in recent years, especially the decline of Japanese cars.
