JIANG LIN

Workers at a factory of the First Automobile Works Group Corp. in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, sign their names on a new Jiefang truck model, China's 10 millionth vehicle to roll off the assembly line this year, at a celebration ceremony on October 20.

China is the third country in the world to have an annual auto output topping the 10 million mark, after the United States and Japan, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. The country's total 2009 output is estimated to reach 12 million.

In January, China overtook the United States as the world's largest auto market. Its auto sales hit a new monthly high of 1.33 million units this September.