Empresas y finanzas
Toyota Motor aims to double sales in China to 2 million vehicles in future
Toyota Motor Corp's Executive Vice President Yasumori Ihara, who made the comments during a news conference at the Beijing auto show, did not give a specific time frame for the target.
In 2013, Toyota sold 917,000 vehicles in China, up 9 percent from a year earlier, recovering from a sales plunge after September 2012 due to a diplomatic row between Japan and China over a set of isles. Its market share was at around 5 percent.
If Toyota is able to hit its sales target of 1.1 million vehicles or more this year, it would meet the objective of selling 1 million vehicles a year in China four years later than initially planned.
Toyota operates joint ventures in China with China FAW Group Corp and Guangzhou Automobile Group <601238.SS> <2238.HK>.
(Reporting by Yoko Kuboya in BEIJING; Writing by Lee Chyen Yee)