China's largest heavy truck maker, China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Corp (CNHTC), said Friday that its output has become the second largest in the world.

Cai Dong, president of CNHTC, drove the 120,000th truck the company manufactured this year off the production line. He said the truck marked a 11.2 percent year-on-year output growth, which was a remarkable achievement, considering the world economic downturn.

CNHTC's output "is second only to Germany auto maker Mercedes-Benz in world heavy truck industry," said Ni Guixiang, head of the company's publicity department, at the company's headquarters in Ji'nan City, capital of eastern Shandong province.