Car sales rocket as China tries to boost consumer spending

BEIJING — Ahead of the lunar new year holiday that rates as this nation's biggest party, buyers packed the Huaxiang car market in southwest Beijing. Some wanted to drive home a new car in a physical sign of their success in the soon-ending Year of the Ox; others wanted to trade up before the new Year of the Tiger that began Feb. 14.

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