Increased sales taxes on large cars from September 1 have caused a short-term spike in sales. But as the Securities Times reports, carmakers and industry experts don’t expect the move to dampen sales in the long-term either.

Auto sales growth slowed in May and June in the face of diminishing purchasing power at home. Shanghai Securities News writes that foreign governments are partly to blame for blocking expansion efforts of Chinese automakers

Listed automakers posted growing revenues and profits in the first quarter of the year. But as the Shanghai Securities News reports, profit margins were down amid higher costs

China is the second largest automobile market in the world and now the world's third largest automobile producer, behind the US and Japan. Automakers produced 8.88 million motor vehicles last year, up 22.02% from a year earlier, including 6.38 million passenger vehicles and 2.5 million commercial vehicles.And more impressively, China has surpassed Japan ...

The South China Morning Post leads its China coverage with the return of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin. Seemingly content to exert influence from behind the scenes since his official retirement in 2004, Jiang chose as his vehicle for re-entry to public life a 16-page academic paper on national energy strategy. In his presentation to the executive arm ...