Super heavy duty trucks lead China's truck exports in 2007

Shanghai. February 3 (Gasgoo.com) – Last year, China exported a total of 248,000 heavy duty trucks, which represents 40.3 percent of China's total vehicle exports in the year. Total value of China's heavy truck exports amounted to 2.31 billion in U.S. dollars, which amounts to 31.5 percent of China's total vehicle exports last year, Xinhua News Agency reported today.

 

However, super heavy trucks (total weight over 20 tons) lead China's truck export by a spectacular growth of 372.0 percent from one year earlier, according to statistics Xinhua cited from Automobile Division of China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products (CCCME).

 

 

"In last year's truck exports, heavy and middle-duty truck experienced an impressive growth over one year earlier, however light duty trucks experience a much slower growth in comparison with heavy and middle duty trucks,"  Fu said.  "This indicates to us a structural change of China's truck exports over the past year."

 

The structural change of China's vehicle exports offers an explanation of the growth of unit price of China-exported vehicles.

 

In 2007, the average unit price hit 1l, 905 in U.S. dollars, an increase of 30.4 percent from one year earlier, according to the CCCME report.