China car market to expand by 8 percent annually: McKinsey

The country's auto market grew an average of 24 percent a year between 2005 and 2011, the global management consulting firm said in a newly issued report.

Despite the slowdown China will remain the world's top market with sales of 22 million passenger cars in 2020, due to steady economic growth, rising incomes and road building, it said.

“Chinese consumers are growing more sophisticated about cars and their tastes are evolving,” the report said.

“The Chinese car market is becoming more like that of North America, Europe and Japan and perhaps even more complex, given the many regional and segment differences.”

Figures from a Chinese industry group show China's passenger car sales rose 6.9 percent annually in the January-October period to 12.57 million vehicles.

Growth so far this year shows improvement from the 5.2 percent for all of 2011, but is far below the 33 percent recorded in 2010, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said.

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