Volkswagen H1 China-HK car sales up 22.7 pct yr/yr

SHANGHAI, July 13 (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG (VOWG.DE), Europe's largest automaker, said on Monday that vehicle sales in China and Hong Kong during the first half of this year jumped 22.7 percent from a year earlier, benefitting from a revival in the world's third-biggest economy.

Volkswagen and its two China joint ventures sold a record 652,222 units, including 538,969 Volkswagen-branded vehicles, the German company said in an e-mailed statement.

"China is currently a spotlight in the international automotive market," Volkswagen China President Winfried Vahland said in the statement.

"The increase of our deliveries to customers has been in line with the market growth in China, which benefitted from the effectiveness and the success of the Chinese government's incentive automotive policy." (US$1=6.832 Yuan)