China's leading private automaker, Chery Automobile Co, is expected to export a record 170,000 units of vehicles in 2011, marking the highest annual export figure in the company's history, a company manager said on Nov 25.

In the first ten months of this year, Chery's export of vehicles rose 77.3 percent from a year earlier to reach 135,556 units, accounting for 35.3 percent of the total passenger vehicle export of domestic brands, said Feng Ping, deputy general manager of Chery International.