China's June passenger car sales down 6.5% y/y - CPCA

By Reuters Staff

FILE PHOTO: Visitors wearing face masks following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak check a Skoda vehicle at a sales event in Shanghai, China May 5, 2020. Picture taken May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Yilei Sun

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s passenger car sales in June dropped 6.5% to 1.68 million units, the China Passenger Car Association said on Wednesday.

The passenger car sales rose 1.9% 1.61 million units in May from a year earlier.

Reporting by Yilei Sun and Brenda Goh; Editing by Alison Williams

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