China to be largest high-end car market by 2016   

报告称中国2016年或将成世界最大高端汽车市场

全球知名管理咨询公司麦肯锡4日在上海发布最新报告《乘势而上：中国高端汽车市场展望》，其中指出，过去十年，中国高端汽车市场以年均36%的惊人速度持续增长，高于同期中国乘用车市场年均26%的整体增速，中国将在2016年成为世界最大的高端汽车市场。

Shanghai (Ecns) -- China will become the world's largest high-end car market by 2016, according to a report released Monday by the world's leading management consulting firm McKinsey in Shanghai.

The report shows that in the past 10 years China's high-end car market continued to grow at an annual rate of 36 percent, higher than the annual growth rate of 26 percent for the passenger car market.

In 2012, the number of China's high-end new car sales reached 1.25 million. China has become the world's second largest high-end car market, after the United States.

The report predicted that the number of annual high-end car sales in China will reach 3 million by 2020, basically flat with the Western Europe market. However, over the same period, annual sales in the United States is estimated to be 2.3 million cars.

The report indicated that China is expected to be the largest high-end car market by 2016, with annual sales of 2.25 million cars.

In the report, McKinsey surveyed 1,200 high-end car consumers and interviewed over 60 auto executives and industry experts.