Sales came to 196,797 vehicles in December, up 9.8 percent from a year earlier, it said in a statement.

GM, the largest overseas automaker in China, operates auto manufacturing ventures in the country with SAIC Motor (>> SAIC Motor Corporation Limited) and FAW Group.

(Reporting by Fang Yan and Ken Wills)

Stocks treated in this article : General Motors Company, SAIC Motor Corporation Limited