BEIJING Air Max Womens Shoes , July 11 (Xinhua) -- China's auto sales grew again in June after two months of decline, data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) showed Tuesday.

Some 2.2 million vehicles were sold last month, up 4.5 percent year on year, compared with a 0.1 percent decline in May and a 2.2 percent drop in April.

Meanwhile, 2.2 million vehicles were produced in June, up 5.4 percent from the same period last year, according to the CAAM.

Sales of passenger cars climbed 2.3 percent to 1.8 million vehicles last month, 2.2 percentage points slower than the overall growth.

But both production and sales in new energy vehicles (NEVs) were particularly robust, with 59 Air Max Womens ,000 NEVs sold in June, up 33 percent year on year, while 65,000 NEVs were produced, up 43.4 percent.

In the first six months, total auto output and sales increased by 4.6percent and 3.8 percent year on year to 13.5 million and 13.4 million vehicles, respectively, a slowdown from the the growth in the same period last year.

Some 195,000 NEVs were sold during the six-month period Cheap Nike Air Max Womens , up 14.4 percent from the first half of 2016, while 212,000 NEVs were produced, up 19.7 percent.

The tepid auto market was partly a result of a higher sales tax, which was raised to 7.5 percent this year.

In October 2015, China slashed the sales tax on cars with engines of 1.6 liters or below from 10 percent to 5 percent, helping increase total auto sales to a record high of 28.03 million last year.

The tax rate will return to 10 percent again in 2018, according to the government.

China has had the world's largest car market for eight consecutive years.

SOCHI, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- China earned three spots for Friday's quarterfinals of men's 500m short track speed skating on Tuesday at Sochi 2014 Winter Games.

All three Chinese Nike Air Max Womens Black , Liang Wenhao, Han Tianyu and Wu Dajing, beat the odds and advanced as the top finishers of their own groups.

World champion of the discipline in 2010 and 2013, Liang Wenhao, clocked 41.647 seconds in heat 3, beating South Korea's Lee Han-Bin to the second place.

Teenage sensation Han Tianyu, the 1,500m silver medalist of Sochi 2014, made through on 41.592 Nike Air Max Womens Clearance , ahead of local favorite and the Olympic men's 1000m runner-up Vladimir Grigorev in heat 4.

Wu Dajing came out winner of heat 6 with a time of 41.712, while Hungary's Viktor Knoch was the distance second on 42.261.

Other hot hits of the discipline Victor An of Russia, Jean Olivier and J. R. Celski of the United States also made the quarters, while Charles Hamelin of Canada, who fell in the 1,000m quarterfinals, was again caught by accident before finishing the last in heat 8 on 1:18.871.

XIAMEN, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- While some analysts said China is losing its glamour as a major investment destination, business insiders believe the world's second largest economy is no less enticing.

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Bracy said he was optimistic about China's market potentials, particularly in second and third-tier cities where a middle-class customer base is rapidly growing.

Dai Jianmin, CEO-in-waiting of San Francisco-based Bank of Orient, said at the CIFIT: "Globally speaking, China's economic expansion is among the fastest and business opportunities in many sectors and regions are still great."

Schneider Electric also attaches significance to the China market, the company's second largest market globally. Wang Jie, vice president of Schneider Electric China, said one of the company's strategies is "go west" for "gold mining" in inland regions.

The Zurich-based power and automation technology company Nike Air Max Womens Shoes , ABB Group, had record sales revenue in China last year. They're also betting on the growth momentum in the west, with branches in the region already established, Cai Ge, senior vice president of ABB China, told Xinhua.

He said rooting in China is the group's long-term strategy.

"It is groundless to say that China's investment environment is worsening," said Dai, dismissing worries that foreign capital is leaving the country.

Official data showed that foreign director investment (FDI) in China dipped by 17 percent in July, the steepest monthly drop since July 2012. The total FDI from January to July also fell by 0.35 percent.

Some analysts said in addition to an economic slowdown Nike Air Max Womens , investigations "targeting" foreign companies such as Microsoft, Shanghai Husi Food Co. and Japanese auto makers are driving out overseas capital.

Ghazi Abu Nahl, chairman of the World Trade Centers Association, said "is volume of [companies] leaving more than the volume of those coming? No. You'll see some people leave, which is normal, and more people come."

In his view, China is no longer a low-cost market as price of labor, raw materials and logistics is generally on a rise. Some companies may choose to move to cheaper markets, but more are coming to China.

Peter Joseph Cheap Air Max Womens , the Executive Director of Association to Invest in USA, said he has confidence in the Chinese economy due to the resilience its already shown.

"Overall, the resiliency and bouncing back of the Chinese economy makes us very confident," said Joseph.

Howard Ye, vice president of the United States Pacific Rim Chamber, forecasted that some mature industries in the U.S. may transfer to China. "Of course, the investment will be market-oriented," he said.

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"If a foreign company.