Chinese car brands recorded an increase in sales in the first four months of this year, industry data shows.

 

More than 3 million Chinese-brand passenger cars were sold in the January-April period, up 9.8 percent from a year earlier, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

 

The brands had a 47.6 percent share of the domestic passenger car market during the period, up 6 percentage points year on year.