SHANGHAI
China Association of automobile manufacturers reported Thursday that total vehicle sales rose to 11.5 million last year, up from 18 million in 2010, when sales rose 32 percent.
Passenger car sales, which exclude buses and large trucks, up 5.2 percent last year to 14.5 million vehicles, industry groups said.
Instead, U.S. car sales jumped 10 percent of 12.8 million vehicles in 2011. China surpassed United States as the largest market the number of new vehicle sold in 2009.
The end of the tax incentives and subsidies, along with new restrictions on car purchases Beijing, slowing sales, which have grown at double-digits every year since 1999 – regardless of the year 2008. The sale of that year, at the height of the global crisis, up 6.7 percent.