China's car industry in numbers, year by year
7 series from the bodies that publish them. Every one states what it counts — passenger cars or all vehicles, wholesale or retail, what counts as new-energy — because two figures for the same year usually differ for that reason and not because one is wrong.
| Series | Unit | Years | Newest figure published | Publisher |
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| Best-selling passenger car models in China by year | vehicles (retail) | 2024–2024 | CarNewsChina | |
| Largest automotive groups in China by year | vehicles (wholesale) | 2025–2025 | China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) | |
| Motor vehicle production in China by year | vehicles | 2000–2025 | China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) | |
| New energy vehicle sales in China by year | vehicles (wholesale) | 2015–2025 | China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) | |
| New energy vehicle share of vehicle sales in China by year | percent | 2015–2025 | China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) | |
| Vehicle exports from China by year | vehicles | 2010–2025 | China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) | |
| Vehicle sales in China by year | vehicles (wholesale) | 2009–2025 | China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) |
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Best-selling passenger car models in China by year
2024: 241,598 vehicles (retail)
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Largest automotive groups in China by year
2025: 1,323,000 vehicles (wholesale)
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Motor vehicle production in China by year
2025: 34,531,000 vehicles
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New energy vehicle sales in China by year
2025: 16,490,000 vehicles (wholesale)
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New energy vehicle share of vehicle sales in China by year
2025: 47.9 percent
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Vehicle exports from China by year
2025: 7,098,000 vehicles
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Vehicle sales in China by year
2025: 34,400,000 vehicles (wholesale)
How these are refreshed
Yearly, not daily. These are annual series published once and revised rarely; a page that re-checked them every night would only be pretending to know something new. The vintage column is the publication date of the newest figure in each series, and the methodology page explains what that does and does not mean.