An employee works on a truck assembly line at a production base of Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Corp., Ltd. in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, April 21, 2022. (Xinhua/Bai Bin)

HEFEI, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese automaker Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Corp., Ltd. (JAC) registered a year-on-year increase of 13.82 percent in September sales, the company said.

JAC sold 47,700 vehicles last month, bringing total sales for the first nine months of 2022 up to 371,700. The company's sales of electric passenger vehicles in September reached 20,900 in September, up 45.03 percent year on year.

In the period between January and September, the company also exported 79,800 vehicles, translating into a growth of 40.71 percent compared with the same period last year.

China's automobile sales rose 25.7 percent year on year to 2.61 million units in September, data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers showed.