Geely's Volvo Car Group sold more cars in China last month than in the US.

Chinese sales rose 48.6% year on year to 5,719 units compared with 4,188 in the US.

The XC60 remained the company's best selling car model in China with a record 2,482 sales in September.

During the first three nine months, Volvo's sales in China rose 41.3% to 43,380.

The Chengdu plant in southwest Sichuan province will start producing the S60L in the fourth quarter of this year while the company's newly inaugurated plant in Daqing, in North China's Heilongjiang province, is anticipated to start production by the end of the year.

The first phase of the Daqing plant is designed to produce 80,000 units a year while a second phase will have an annual output capacity of 300,000 units.