New York, New York 1/5/2010 3:35:00 AM
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GM Says China Sales Rose 67 Percent in 2009

General Motors Co. said Monday the company’s 2009 sales in China rose 67 percent to a record 1.8 million vehicles, according to Associated Press.

 

Chinese auto purchases surpassed those in the United States for all but two of the first 11 months of the year. Total sales for December are yet to be released.

 

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GM said its own China sales in December rose 96.6 percent from a year earlier to a new monthly high of 189,793 vehicles.

 

GM said its SAIC-GM-Wuling joint venture with local partners Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp. and Wuling became the country's first automaker to exceed 1 million units in annual sales in 2009. It said sales rose 63.9 percent to 1.06 million vehicles.

 

Sales by Shanghai GM, a joint venture with SAIC, rose 63.3 percent to 727,620 units.

 

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