An employee walks past newly assembled Volvo cars lined up at a parking lot in Chongqing. Chinese-owned Swedish automaker Volvo Car Corp expects to be selling 200,000 cars a year in China by 2018, two years ahead of its latest target and as a new assembly plant gears up for full production later this year, Fu Qiang, who took over Volvo's China sales and marketing operations last year, said yesterday. He spoke at a company presentation in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, where Volvo is due to open a new assembly plant. Full production should begin in the fourth quarter, and the plant will be able to produce 125,000 cars a year.