Beijing-SANA

Data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers showed that sales of passenger cars of Chinese brands rose 81.4 percent year-on-year in April.

In April, a total of 999,55 Chinese-branded passenger cars were sold, accounting for 2.18 percent of the country's total passenger car sales during the same period, while car sales rose 8.3 percent year-on-year to more than 68.<> million units, Xinhua quoted the data as saying on Monday.

Sales of Chinese-branded passenger cars accounted for 53 percent of the country's total passenger car sales in the period, up 5.4 percentage points from the same period last year.

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