SMIB Cracking Down on Auto Smuggling

According to the unified plan set at a lately-concluded national conference on anti-smuggling, the State Machine-Building Industry Bureau (SMIB), P. R. China recently issued an urgent announcement on cracking down on smuggling in auto field.     

What''''s on in Auto Standardization ''''97

The National Technical Committee for Au-tomotive Standardization (NTCAS) of China fo-cused more attention on the preparation and a-mendment of standards, especially in the field of mandatory standards in 1997. NTCAS also made great efforts to improve the quality assessment standard of local-made vehicles and promote auto product certification. The main activities of NT-CAS included:     

Market Analysis of Chinese Auto Pollution-Control Product

In recent years, Chinese government has shown special concern on urban pollution issue caused by automobiles by formulating some laws and regulations concerning automotive emission in succession. In order to bring in line with international practice in the field of auto emission standards, China is implementing relevant European standards. These measures will directly touch off a rapid expansion of Chinese auto pollution-control product market.     

Controlling Risk and Ensuring Profitability in the Vehicle Financing Industry

“Administrative Methods on Auto Credit”entitled finance companies to do automobilebusiness.ButhowcantheyoperateincompliancewiththeregulationsfromtheChinaBankRegulatoryCommittee (CBRC) despite the monopoly status of state-ownedbankshasbeendiscontinued? The auto credit business had grown at a rate of 200 percent ever since 1998 when itwas first launched. By the end of June 2004, the total auto credit balance with financialorganizations was US$ 22.08 billion, accounting for 10.2 percen…     

Contemplation for Auto Air Conditioning System in 2000

With the development of Chinese car industry, the auto air conditioning system (auto a/c system) industry is rising up to meet the increasing demand of various cars. During the 8th- Five- Year-plan period, almost all the auto a/c manufacturers in China imported the advanced technology from abroad to produce the main parts for auto a/c system, eg. the compressor manufacturing technology     

NEWS

POLICY China set to restructure auto industry by mergers hina said it wanted to boost its auto industry by reducing the number of companies in the sector through mergers and promoting two or three carmakers to become the dominant players. The government's plans for auto industry reform were     

Two principles are guiding China''''s auto parts industry

Recently there were two pieces of news in China’s auto parts industry, one of themfrom WEI Jianguo, vice minister of Commerce. WEI said that the active use of foreigninvestment is a crucial factor in the development of China’s auto parts industrydomestically and for export; China needs to take the opportunity of the global strategies oftransnational companies to foster the power of automobiles and auto parts. Meanwhile, itneeds to actively promote domestic auto parts suppliers to enter t…     

PROPOSALS CONCERNING CHINA AUTO PARTS INDUSTRY

China auto industry is the pillar industry in China's national economy, while the auto parts industry is a very important support to the development of auto industry.     

Opening policy should be further sustained

Opening to the outside, a key link for rapid development of Chi-na's auto industry The rapid development of auto industry benefited from the opening policy. The utilization of foreign funds and introduction of technolo-gy are important means for the Chi-nese auto industry to acquire funds, develop products and improve man-     

Opportunities and difficulties for private-owned businesses coexist in China''''s auto industry

In China's auto industry in 2002, the regrouping and joint-venturing of FAW, Dongfeng and SAIC were backed by multinational auto corporations. However, the more noticeable thing was: various private capitals were entering the commercial vehicle production field(including mini car production), which was dominated by the state-owned business. Over     

Actively Participate in R&D of EV and SFV

Ⅰ. Sustainable development strategy of China auto industry China auto industry is in the process of development. China's auto products only take a comparatively small share in the world auto market. However, we have attached great importance to the sustainable development strategy of China auto industry which, we think, is a part     

NEWS

Policy, standard, regulation Beijing to introduce tougher auto emission standards Beijing will introduce tougher auto emission standards at the beginning of next year to curb air pollution in this host city of the 2008 Olympic Games,     

China's Auto Parts Industry Has Experienced 3 Periods Over The Past 30 Years

The following was a keynote speech of the CAAM at an annual conference on the auto parts industry. 1.The first stage:to introduce the advanced technologies to localize car parts. In the mid 1980's,the auto industry began introducing the car and truck     

Reflections on Human Resources Development in China''''s Auto Industry

The vitalization of auto industry relies to a larger extent on the collective intellect and integrity of the personnel group comprising industrial leaders, entrepreneurs, engineers, and skilled workers. High quality personnel is very crucial to the auto industrial boom.     

CATARC establishes strategic partnership with the US GE Company

CATARC signed an agreement on Feb 4 with GE Fanuc Automation, a branch of GE, to introduce the world advanced auto management system to China, jointly developing and researching new products and resolutions to lift the productivity and interests of Chinas auto firms, and raising the management level of Chinas auto industry in terms of information and quality control. The business of GE Fanuc Automation is to provide intelligent resolutions, intellectual bed for plants, cooperative produ…     

The Continuing Improvement of the Investment Environment of China''''s Auto Industry

Editor's Note: Since 1985, CATARC has been conducting research into the field of China's auto industry policies and their effectiveness. The fruits and experience of our long-term study and the close relationship with government departments are part of the advantage of CATARC in the field of policy researches. Mr. HAN Mei, the vice Director of CATARC Beijing     

Auto Market

Editor's notes: 2000 was a year when China saw many new cars models. The auto market of 2000 is very hot and the auto consumption in China changes greatly. In order to let all readers know how China auto market get along, we'd like to provide the following information coming from BAGAE.     

NEW PROSPEROUS FIELD FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONS——R&D TECHNOLOGIES OF AUTO PRODUCTS

With the rapid development of China auto industry, the Chinese Government and the auto industry itself have given more and more attention to the upgrading self-R&D capacity of auto products. Ten years later, it is predicted that the national economy and living standard will be improved greatly, and there will be a peak of the procurement for     

An interview with XU Koh YH——Chief Representative of ZF Representative Office in Beijing

Reporter: Would you like to make a brief comment on China's auto industry? Xu: China's auto industry is quite a large and interesting industry. Now all the people in the world have realized that China's auto market may be the last largest and     

The Status and Trend of Chinese Auto EC

As a new information industry, E-commerce is becoming a new growth point of economy, and changing the development of traditional industries such as the auto industry. E-commerce would ultimately bring it profound changes. Therefore, many countries are employing E-commerce to impel the development of the auto industry rapidly. As the final large market, China has to keep up with the trend of global auto development. If we did not explore and establish E-commerce actively, with WTO coming, we