Mazda Motor Corp. is saying it may cut its midterm China sales target after deliveries in the world's biggest car market fell for 17 straight months.

Mazda is Japan's most export-dependent automaker, and its plan for China sales to reach 400,000 units by the year ending March 2016 "may be revised," Masamichi Kogai, who was promoted to president in June, said in an interview last week.

Hiroshima's biggest company is forecasting China sales to reach only 200,000 this fiscal year.