Powered by passenger vehicles great sales, SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile’s new vehicle sales reached 2,040,007 units in 2015 at an impressing rate of 13% year on year, higher than the average of China’s auto industry of around 3.3% .

 

Concerning the reason behind this progress, Shen Yang, general manager of the automaker was quoted as saying that the enterprise had succeeded in transforming and upgrading its industrial structure from commercial vehicle-centered mix to passenger vehicles-centered structure.

 

In 2015, passenger vehicles, evolving into the major pillar of the manufacture, sold 1,181,810 units, accounting for 58% of the total sales, up 26.72% from a year earlier.

 

Baojun 730 and Baojun 560, representing product of the automaker made outstanding contribution in sales, the former model’s accumulative sales last year reaching 321,069 units while the latter, launched in July 18, 2015, selling 145,007 units till year end.

 

Eight new vehicles including seven Baojun models were to be launched next year, further exploiting the passenger vehicles market in China. Heed also would be paid to boosting alternative energy vehicles’ research and production.