Summarize:www.chinabuses.org: In September, China sold 7,627 units large buses (including non-complete ones), up by 19.96% compared with that in the previous month, down by 3.38% compared with that in the same month last year. In August, the large bus sales volume went down by 9.92% year on year, indicating the declining situation was reversing. Also in September, the sales volume of large buses accounted for 15.91% of the overall bus sales in China while in August the percentage of large bus sales to the overall bus sales stood at 14.26%.
In September, the sales of complete large buses reached 7,552 units, up by 20.81% month on month and down by 1.87% year on year. In the same month, Yutong, Golden Dragon, Higer, King Long and BAIC Foton ranked among the top five bus brands in terms of their sales of large buses. Together, the five bus makers sold 5,888 units large buses, accounting for 77.97% of the overall sales of large buses in the industry.
In September, China sold 75 units non-complete large buses, down by 29.91% month on month and down by 62.12% year on year. In the same period, only four enterprises, namely Dongfeng, FAW, Mengshi and Silver Bus realized some negligible sales.