An Interview with ZHANG Xingye—— Honorary President of Society of Automotive Engineers of China

Reporter: Please say something about the entire structure of Chinese auto industry after the WTO entry, and what do you think it should do to cope with the new challenges? Zhang: This is an old question we have talked about for years. Now China is already an official member of the WTO and what we discussed before should become specific policies or measures.     

An Analysis of the State of China’s Automobile Exports

According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce, China exported a total of more than 170,000 automobiles (including CKD) in 2005, worth nearly USD 1.6 billion. The export list included more than 30,000 cars, 1,844 offroaders, 10,000 tour buses, 6,43…     

An Interview with Zhang Xiaoyu

Q: For days, people have been talking about French Peugeot's capital withdrawal from Guangzhou Peugeot. How do your comment on this matter? Do you think there will be any neg-ative affect on foreign investment in China?     

An Interview with Zhang Xiaoyu

Zhang: especially those over car entering family, such as auto loan, insurance, the recession of import tariffs and the simplification of vehicle licensing. In my point of view, the fuel tax will be put into effect the next year since the fuel price has reached the bottom. Of course the issue will be finally determined by our central government. I think the sooner the better. Reporter: You were a senior official of the govemmental department and now you are taking a new job.     

An Interview with Dr. Bleyer, CEO of ZF Group

Q: ZF has made great progress in her China op-eration. Would you please give a brief review and comment on the prospects of your business in China? A: ZF has indeed made great progress in its China business in the past 5 years. Now it has 3 manufac-turing plants and 4 sales and service organizations.     

Improve Market Environment for Promoting Rapid, Sustainable and Healthy Developmentof China Auto IndustryHu Xinmin, President of China Association of Automotive Manufacturers (CAAM)

During the 8th Five-Year Plan period, an average annual growth rate of 24% was achieved by China auto industry, which is in line with that of the gross industrial output val-ue all over China, and is higher than that of the GNP. It can be said that the auto industry ex-perienced a high speed increase in this period, but from the last two years of this period to now, an obvious slowdown in terms of growth     

Creating A New FAW Meets the Requirements of the WTO Entry——An Interview with ZHU Yanfeng, General Manager of FAW Chief

[Editor's Note] As men of automobiles like us, especially those working in the traditional state-owned enterprises, we should probably be a generation that is confronted with reform and challenges. It is of no matter that our products and technologies are behind our counterparts, however, our ideas should not be behind the times. In order to foster more     

Cradle of Chinese Military Vehicle——Shaanxi Automobile Works

In the military parade held for celebrating the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, which attracted worldwide attention, 68 heavy military vehi-cles of SX2150 and SX2190 series towing heavy weapons including missiles, etc., passed the Tian An Men square, making a show of force of Chinese defense equipment. These vehicles are produced by Shaanxi Au-     

Focuses of China Automotive Industry——Exclusive Interview of Mr. Zhang Xiaoyu, Director of AIB, MMI

Q: The 9th Five-Year Plan period starts. People believe China auto industry will go a rapid development during the 9th Five-Year Plan period. Could you give us some information about the possibility of reaching the planned 3     

An Interview to the High Rank Managers of VW Asia

Person's introduction John Boley, (Editorial Consultant of CHINA AUTO) Dr. Bernd Leissner (President, VW Asia-Pacific) Mr. Walter Hanek, (Managing director, VW Group China Import)About the cost of production     

An Anticipation on the Import and Export of China''''s Automobile Products 2002

2002 is the first year for China that entered into of the WTO in 2001. China's auto industry will be confronted with the opportunity and challenge from the WTO and it will greatly change China's auto industry. Under the pressures from both domestic demand and external world, the organization structure, product mix and market     

An interview with GAO Dayi——Director of Ji Hua Investment Management Corporation

Reporter: After China's WTO entry, what will happen on the structure of China's auto market? What impact will Chinese auto industry come across? Gao: This is a question commonly concerned, and also one related to the future development of China's auto industry.     

An analysis of the regrouping strategies of transnational companies in China

ChinasWTOaccessionwasanotherhistoriceventinthecourseofChinasreformandopeningtotheoutsideworld.TransnationalcompaniesfixtheireyesontheChinesemarketandcapitaloperationsandthetideofmergersaretakingshapehere.ThosethathaveenteredintoChinaearlierarealsoplanningtoregrouptheirassetsandbusinessinChinatoo.Thenewroundofregroupingisnotrestrictedtosimplemergerandseparationintermsoftheregroupingforms,butisoftenaccompaniedbyanincreaseorreductioninassets,achangeinstockownershipstructures,reorganizationofin…     

An interview with WAN Gang——Chief Scientist of 863 Special Project for Electric Vehicle

Reporter: Will you please give an account of the development of electric vehicles in the world? Wan: The history of electric vehicle is almost the same as that of ICE vehicles. The electric vehicles have many advantages. Its drive system is of zero torque so that it creates more torsional force. Why is the electric vehicle developed slowly? The main     

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     

An Analysis of the Development of China Auto Engine Sector (Ⅱ)

4. Technology import and joint venture Over the past two years, in or-der to meet the requirements of the product upgrading and more strict emission standard, advanced for-eign technologies have been import-ed by China auto and motorcycle     

An Analysis of the Prosperity of China’s Auto Electronic Package Market

The growing electronic content in automobiles is considered a revolution in the development of automobile technology. The extent is closely associated with measuring the technical level of modern automobiles. Vehicle electronic is also the most important approachtodevelopnewvehiclevarietyandimproveautomobileperformance.Automobile manufacturers think that more and better electronic devices are a significant and effective means of gaining greater market share.1. Extensive application o…     

An analysis on the strategic allies of auto makers in China

More than 20 years have passed since 1984 when Beiqi and AMC (became part of Chrysler in 1987) established China's first joint venture in the auto industry to produce the Jeep. The history can be divided into two phases. The 1980 witnessed a lot of technology being introduced from abroad and since the late 1990's the joint ventures have been engaged in "market for technology". The mass joint ventures have improved the entire auto industry through introducing funds, technology and management, and given impetus to the development of other segments.