Gasgoo.com (Shanghai) - Major automobile manufacturers in the Chinese market had set their sales target well in advance early their year. Now, with half of the year already past, only a minority of those manufacturers managed to achieve at least 50% of their respective sales targets. According to statistics compiled by Gasgoo.com (Chinese), only five manufacturers reported that they had achieved over half of their sales targets: GAC Group, Dongfeng Honda, JAC Motor, FAW Toyota and Geely.

Gasgoo.com (Shanghai) - 2014 and 2015 were important years for the Chinese automobile market and especially for domestic own brand manufacturers in particular. Own brands have been able to overcome difficulties in the sedan segments by shifting their focus towards the SUV and MPV segments, which in turn has allowed them to recover and compete with joint venture manufacturers for market share. Chinese own brands seemed to had finally come into their own stride with the explosion of popularity of Chinese SUV models.

Gasgoo.com (Shanghai) - With half of the year having already past, most Chinese automobile manufacturers have released their official sales figures for the first five months of the year. Changan Automobile ranked as the domestic own brand manufacturer with the largest number of automobile sales from the five-month period from January to May. It was followed by Great Wall Motor and BAIC Group, which rounded out the top three. These three manufacturers accounted for nearly half of all own brand automobile sales made by the top ten own brand manufacturers and have been a major factor in driving the own brand market as a whole closer towards being able to compete with joint venture manufacturers.