German automaker Daimler, the owner of the luxury car brand Mercedes-Benz, has reported an uptick in car sales in China. The car sales rebound comes as the country lifts its months-long nationwide lockdowns to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Daimler board member for production, Markus Schaefer, told reporters on Sunday that the company had sold around 50,000 vehicles in China for the month of March. The number is significant considering that the company only sold a total of around 477,400 vehicles worldwide between January and March, a 15 percent decline when compared to its car sales in the previous year.

China is one of the company's largest markets, with Daimler having sold a total of 694,200 Mercedes-Benz vehicles in the country last year. Last year's total sales in China accounted for about 29 percent of the company's total global sales. For the first quarter, the company's car sales in China dropped by 20 percent when compared to the same period last year.

After months of temporarily suspending its operations in Europe, Daimler is once again ramping up productions at its assembly lines in Sindelfingen and Bremen in Germany. The two plants mainly produce the company's iconic E and S-Class luxury models.  China is one of the biggest buyers of the company's top-end S-Class vehicles, typically seeing hundreds of the units being sold throughout the country per day.

During the first quarter of the year, Daimler reported that it had seen a drop of 70 percent in its operating profits. The company attributed the drop to the ongoing lockdowns in its various markets, particularly China. Daimler had also warned investors that it would likely see a dip in its cash flow throughout the year, which would affect its ability to pay dividends.

Sales of the company's flagship Mercedes-Benz cars were severely affected by the pandemic during the first three months of the years. However, the company is seeing signs of recovery in markets such as China and South Korea. Schaefer noted that the company will unlikely be able to meet the same sales numbers as last year, but it will eventually get there as production and marketing starts to ramp up.

Daimler sales chief, Britta Seeger, revealed that they are seeing an influx in demand in key markets worldwide. As dealerships open up once again in countries such as China and South Korea, Daimler has expressed confidence in a possible rebound during the second half of the year as the rest of the world's economy reopen.