BMW said that it more than doubled its sales in China in the first 10 months of 2003.
The world's No 2 luxury carmaker, sold 11,800 cars in China, including 900 BMW 3-Series cars made in the city of Shenyang.
The Shenyang plant has the capacity to produce as many as 30,000 3-Series and 5-Series cars a year, with 40 percent of the parts bought locally from Chinese suppliers.
The company expects China to be the third largest market for the 7-Series sedan behind the US and Europe but has no plans to make the model in China.