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02-08-2007
China
exported 241,000 motor vehicles in the first
half, a growth of 71.2 percent on the same period
last year, with Russia the biggest market.
The
combined export value amounted to 2.7 billion
U.S. dollars, up 110.7 percent, said Fu Peizhao,
deputy secretary-general of the auto branch
of China Chamber of Commerce for Import and
Export of Machinery and Electronic Products,
on Wednesday at a Sino-Russian auto trade forum
held in Harbin, capital of northeast China's
Heilongjiang Province.
Vehicles
for commercial purposes, including trucks, large
and medium-sized buses and special-purpose vehicles,
accounted for 65 percent of the total auto exports
and 72 percent of the total export value, said
Fu.
The
per-unit price of China's exported vehicles
averaged 11,200 U.S. dollars, up 23 percent
on the same period last year.
A
total of 38,600 vehicles valued at 450 million
U.S. dollars were exported to Russia during
the period, ranking first, according to the
chamber.
Kazakhstan
ranked second in China's automobile export market
with 6,445 vehicles, while Iran ranked third.
Other
countries that imported more than 100 million
U.S. dollars worth of Chinese vehicles included
Algeria, Syria, Vietnam, South Africa and Ukraine.
Sino-Russia
trade hit 20.5 billion dollars in the first
half and it was likely to exceed 40 billion
dollars for the whole year, said Wang Jingsong,
a Ministry of Commerce official, at the forum.
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