By Zhang Zeqi
In the first half-year, both the production and sales of motorcycle industry broke through 13 million, creating a new peak in the same period in recent years, maintaining a relatively rapid growth. From January to June, the whole industry manufactured 13.8656 million motorcycles accumulatively, seeing a year-on-year rise of 15.36 per cent, and the accumulative sales total reached 13.8657 million, seeing a year-on-year rise of 15.30 per cent.
Manufacture and sales maintain relatively rapid growth. Seeing from the accumulative growth speed of manufacture and sale in the past six months, we found double-digit growth in each month. The manufacture and sales from January to June separately increased 28.78 & 30.19 per cent, 15.25 & 17.02 per cent, 15.39 & 16.95 per cent, 16.76 & 18.07 per cent, 16.91 & 17.46 per cent and 15.36 & 15.30 per cent. Seeing from the manufacture and sales statistics of each month, we found a year-on-year growth. In the past six months, except that the manufacture and sales in February were only 1.7 million, those in other months were all over 2 million, in which, the manufacture and sales in April were the highest, reaching 2.5 million. Therefore, the year-on-year increment of each month was different. The totals of manufacture and sales in February were the lowest, seeing a year-on-year rises of 18.9 thousand & 68.5 thousand and with growth rates of 1.13 & 4 per cent separately. And those in June increased 188.0 thousand & 128.4 thousand with the year-on-year growth rates of 8.39 & 5.69 per cent. The totals of manufacture and sales of January, March, April, May increased 514.7 thousand & 521.4 thousand,316.7 thousand & 342.7 thousand ,414.2 thousand & 423.6 thousand, 330 thousand & 297.1 thousand�� with the growth rates of 28.78 & 30.19 per cent, 15.71 & 16.87 per cent, 19.48 & 20.16 per cent, 15.26 & 13.56 per cent. The whole industry fluctuated greatly.
Among the six leading displacement vehicles, "four increased and two decreased". The total sales amount of the six leading type vehicles in the sixteen types, ��50ml, 100ml, 110ml, 125ml, 150mland >50ml (III), reached 13.2608 million, occupying 95.63 per cent of the total sales amount of the sixteen types. Compared with the same period of last year, four of the six leading type vehicles kept an upward trend: ��50ml vehicle rose to 9.90 per cent from 8.45 per cent of the same period last year, up 1.45 percentage. 110ml vehicle rose to 15.29 per cent from 14.23 per cent of the same period last year, up 1.06 percentage; 150ml vehicle rose to 9.89 per cent from 8.46 per cent of the same period last year, up 1.43 percentage; >50ml (III) vehicle rose to 5.19 per cent from 4.34 per cent of the same period last year, up 0.85 percentage; Two Vehicles kept a downtrend. One is 100ml vehicle, descended to 12.21 per cent from 12.94 per cent of the same period last year, down 0.73 percentage; the other is 125ml vehicle, descended to 43.16 per cent from 47.49 per cent of the same period last year, down 4.33 percentage, being the one which declined most dramatically, but was still taking the leading place. The two major categories of motor-bicycle and Motor Tricycle took on a trend of "two" down "three" up. The sales of motor-bicycle were 13.1025 million, occupying 94.50 per cent of the total sales of 13.8657 million of the whole industry, down 0.94 percentage compared with last year. And the sales amount of Motor Tricycle was 763.2 million, accounting 5.50 per cent of the total sales, up 0.94 percentage compared with last year. Small change as 0.94 percentages, less than 1 percentage, but it convoyed a message, indicating a trend: the motor-bicycle market becomes weak, while the market of Motor Tricycle keeps robust. Such phenomenon indicates that the passion of most rural consumers to buy motor tricycle is increasing.
The list of top ten saw trend of "9 up, 1 down". With hardworking for half year, top ten enterprises in manufacture and sales emerged, Grand Yangzi River, loncin, Lifan, Jianshe, Zongshen, Luobei, Jialing, Qianjiang, Honda-sundiro and Jincheng, compared with the same period last year, nine enterprises, like Grand Yangzi River, attained a yet higher goal, but Jialing decreased in output a little. Jincheng is an emerging enterprise entering top ten, one rank forward compared with the same period last year, while Guangzhou Motors Group faded away from the top ten in the rigorous competition of motorcycle market.
Export for earning foreign currency increased quickly. From January to June, motorcycles exported were accumulated to 5.0256 million in the whole industry, with a year-on-year rise of 36.39 per cent; earning foreign currency of USD 2.089 billion, up 38.86 per cent year on year. Such high rapid growth has maintained for 5 years since 2003, despite of the twice export rebates, down to 9 per cent from 17 per cent, high rapid growth still remains for export. 65 of the 86 exporting enterprises see positive growth, only 21 saw negative growth. There are 44, 51.16 per cent of the whole industry, whose export quantum occupy over 50 per cent to total sales, and 17, 20 per cent of the whole industry, whose export quantum occupy over 80 per cent to total sales. As it were, these enterprises are indeed export-oriented enterprise, "going forward". Meanwhile the focus of these enterprises is transferred from scale and speed to quality and efficiency. In the first four months this year, the export growth was higher than that of the foreign currency earning in the whole industry: in January, the export growth and foreign-currency earning growth were 61.28 per cent and 51.47 per cent separately; in February, 44.21 per cent and 41.67 per cent; in March, 42.16 per cent and 41.30 per cent; in April, 42.56 per cent and 41.07 per cent; Such situation changed in May and June, the export growth began to be lower than that of foreign-currency earning, 41.75 per cent and 42.80 per cent, 36.39 per cent and 38.86 per cent separately in May and in June.
Four targets increased stably. In the first half-year, 113 enterprises of the whole industry earned RMB 55.097 billion for their main business operations, up 17.19 per cent, gross industrial output value (current price) RMB 55.897 billion, up 19.48 per cent, value added 9.899 billion, up 19.41 per cent; industrial sales volume RMB 55.958 billion��up 19.12 per cent, compared with last year. These four indexes were all up 17 to 19 per cent.
