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Updated Monday, December 15, 2008 11:14 am TWN, AP

Two Volkswagen plants to suspend China production

BEIJING -- Two Chinese auto plants run by German automaker Volkswagen AG through joint ventures are planning to partly suspend production lines to conduct maintenance work, state television reported Sunday. The news comes amid a huge slump in sales of vehicles in China, the world’s second-largest vehicle market after the United States.

China’s CCTV said in its midday bulletin that FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co. plans to suspend part of its production at a plant in Changchun, the capital of Jilin province in northeastern China, at the end of the year to carry out maintenance. Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co. will also suspend work at its production line for half a month from mid-December to early January, the Beijing News Daily reported.

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