Auto sector gets a shot in the arm

Sales tax on vehicles with engines of less than 1.6 liters will be halved and exchange of old vehicles for new ones with smaller engines subsidized to boost the auto industry.

Chinese auto giant FAW reports record sales in '08

China's major automaker First Automobile Works (FAW) Group said Thursday its sales volume and revenue both reached record highs in 2008.

China to consider steel, vehicle support programs

China's State Council, or cabinet, is expected to meet this week to discuss a support plan for the steel and vehicle industries, a spokesman of the country's top economic planning body told Xinhua Tuesday. The official of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said, without elaborating, that a final government plan for these industries would follow the discussions.

China's 2008 auto sales growth hits 10-year low

Chinese auto makers reported a 6.7-percent rise in sales in 2008 compared with the previous year, the lowest rise in 10 years, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said on 12th January, 2009. The growth rate was 21.84 percent in 2007.

AQSIQ: 2nd CQC Quality System Document was verified and will be carried out.

AQSIQ: 2nd CQC Quality System Document was verified and will be carried out.

MOFCOM: Calls for comments on General Rule of Technical Specification for Second Hand Equipment Circ

MOFCOM: Calls for comments on General Rule of Technical Specification for Second Hand Equipment Circulation

NDRC, MOF, MOC: order to strictly control chain reaction resulted from product oil price adjustment

NDRC, MOF, MOC: order to strictly control nationwide impact of chain reaction on transportation resulted from product oil price adjustment

MEP: Notice on Implementing Automobile Emission Standard 3rd Limitation

MOF,NDRC,GAC: Lubricant export quota revoked

MOF,NDRC,GAC: Announcement 30(2008) on Revoking the management for export quota of lubricant, grease and lube base oil