GM sees 1.4 mln unit sales in China in 2009
General Motors Co expects its vehicle sales in China, its biggest market next to the United States, to rise to 1.4 million units in 2009 from 1.1 million in 2008, a senior executive said.
Johan Willems, vice president of GM International Operations (GMIO), also said in an interview in Bangkok late on August 06 he expected the U.S. automaker's sales in China to rise to 2.0 million units by 2014.
Last month GM's China chief, Kevin Wale, forecast that sales in China would grow by a little more than 20 percent this year from 2008 as the fast-growing market remained unaffected by the company's U.S. bankruptcy.
GM said this week its July sales in China jumped 77.7 percent from a year earlier to 144,593, its best performance for the month on record, raising its sales for the first seven months of this year to 959,035, up 42.8 percent from a year earlier.
