Dongfeng Motor Corp said recently that for the first nine months of the year, the company produced 1.302 million vehicles up 25.71 percent from a year earlier, and its total sales surged by 30.53 percent to 1.32 million, equal to the full year sales of 2008, Xinhua News reported yesterday.

At such a developing speed, the company is expected to break through its total 1.4 million sales target of 2009.

"Dongfeng sold 190,917 cars in September, up 76.90 percent from the same period of last year and 21.20 percent from last month, which is the best single month sales ever", according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

On Oct. 10, with its first 15 pure electric trucks rolling off the production line, Dongfeng became the first auto maker in China to pass both the hybrid and pure electric truck test. This is recognized as solid progress in promoting the commercialization of these vehicles. 　

An executive of Dongfeng also has revealed that its independent and joint-venture brands are working together to make the whole corporation develop smoothly and rapidly.