Halloween candy sales were expected to reach $5 billion, an increase in spite of the sour economy. The holiday is the number one holiday for candy sales.

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Dongfeng Motor Corp has set a target to sell 1.4 million vehicles this year, against 1.32 million units in 2008, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today.

Chery Automobile Co, China's biggest domestic automaker, said its car sales fell to 356,000 units in 2008 from 381,000 a year earlier, down around 6.6 pct.

Shanghai General Motors Co Ltd, a 50:50 venture of General Motors and Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corp (SAIC), said its sales slid by more than 8 percent in 2008.

Statistics show that China's import of Acura, Audi and other brands' high-emission cars dropped in November by more than 50% month on month, said xinhuanet.com today. In addition, the inventories of many fuel-guzzlers have risen to triple the monthly average sales.

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., the Chinese partner of Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co., has delayed plans for an initial public offering (IPO) due to slowing cars sales and plunging stock markets, said Shanghai Securities News today. However, Guangzhou Auto will move ahead with its plan to launch its own-brand cars by 2010.

China's top ten automakers by sedan sales reached a sales volume of 265,600 units in October, 2008, accounting for 64.84% of the total, the China Association of Automobile Manufactures (CAAM) announced in a data report yesterday.

China's vehicle output and sales both grew 11 percent from January through October compared with one year ago, official data showed last week.

Over the past 30 years, the output and sales of China's heavy-duty trucks have increased from 4,131 units in 1978 to 489,000 units in 2007, and the volume is expected to reach 500,000 units this year, said xinhuanet.com today, citing Ma Chunji, chairman of Sinotruk, the country's leading heavy-duty truck manufacturer.

PSA Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile Co, a joint venture between Dongfeng Motor Corp and PSA Peugeot Citroen, has been seeing negative growth in the sales of its Citroen cars in the Chinese market this year, said Beijing Business today.

The latest report by China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM）shows that low-emission cars sales is rebounding in 2008 after sales slump in 2007. In the first three quarters of this year, cars below 1.6L, especially the models below 1.0 L, saw a significant rebound amid a widely weakening sales growth in the domestic passenger vehicles market.