Analysis of LNG Buses Market in Jan. - Nov. 2011 ⅡA

Part Three: Analysis of LNG Bus Enterprises’ Sales in the First Four Months of 2012

Table Three: Statistic of LNG Bus Enterprises’ Sales in the First Four Months of 2012

Chart Three: Statistic of LNG Bus Enterprises’ Sales in the First Four Months of 2012
　　

From above data, it is seen that　

1. The main enterprises that produce and sell LNG buses are in Southwest of China, such as Sichuan Nanjun Auto Company, Chengdou Anda Auto, Nanchong Auto and Hengtong Bus etc. As  there are rich natural gas resource in Southwest of China, so it is convenient for these enterprises to make use of the resource. As the manufacturing cost is cut, the enterprises have much more advantage in the LNG bus market in China.
　　

2. The enterprises that produce and sell LNG buses are not the mainstream bus enterprises in the bus industry. On contrary, there are not performing so good in the normal bus markets. So through developing its own advantage bus products, each bus enterprise can make an achievement in different fields of the buses.

Part Four: Analysis of CNG and LNG Buses’ Sales in China’s Different Regional Markets in the First Four Months of 2012

Table Four: Statistic of CNG and LNG Buses’ Sales in China’s Different Regional Markets in the First Four Months of 2012

Chart Four: Statistic of CNG and LNG Buses’ Sales in China’s Different Regional Markets in the First Four Months of 2012

From above data, it is seen that　

1. The biggest regional market of LNG buses is in Sichuan which sold 151 units and it accounted for 11.3% of the all sales of LNG buses. The second one is Xinjiang regional market and the third one is in Jilin. But their market shares are much less than the Sichuan's.
　　

2. For the LNG buses' sales growth, the highest one among the regional markets is Zhejiang market, which represented 78.1 percent of the sales growth.
　

In the sales of the LNG buses, the top fifteen regional markets sold 1,117 units, which accounted for nearly 84% of the total sales of the LNG buses. It is seen the sales of LNG buses in different regional markets are rather different and unbalanced.

The sales fo the LNG buses in the top fifteen regional markets in Jan.-April 2012 were all in positive growth, which shows the growth of the LNG buses are high and common.