GM Oct China sales up 3.2%

General Motors Co and its Chinese joint ventures sold 291,371 vehicles in China in October, up 3.2 percent from the same month a year earlier, the US automaker said on Wednesday.

The company's sales in the first 10 months of the year totaled 2.87 million vehicles, up 10.7 percent from the same period a year earlier.

GM plans to invest $12 billion in China between 2014 and 2017 and build five more plants to ramp up its manufacturing capacity, its China president Matt Tsien said at the Beijing auto show in April this year.