Different Strategies of Localization in the Chinese Auto Industry

Chunli Lee, Jin Chen and Takahiro Fujimoto
Additional contact information
Chunli Lee: The State Council of P. R. C.
Jin Chen: Tianjin Commerce University.
Takahiro Fujimoto: Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.

No 97-F-2, CIRJE F-Series from CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

Abstract: Along with the process of economic reform and policy of opening to the outside world, China's auto industry has come to a point of new development. Since the manufacturing technology of cars is much more complicated than that of commercial vehicles, China has adopted a different strategy to develop its car industry --- incremental localization by introducing foreign capital and technology, deviating from the "self-reliance" approach in its commercial vehicle production. This paper will focus on the character of China's car market, system of car manufacturing, and outline of localization policies, based on the field surveys conducted on Shanghai-VW, Tianjin Daihatsu, relevant parts makers, administrative organizations in August 1995 and March, April 1996, the authors will compare and examine the differences in the localization strategies and production systems between Shanghai-VW and Tianjin Daihatsu. By doing so, we intend to establish a base for further research and survey on the future Chinese auto industry. The authors focus on these different cases of Shanghai-VW and Tianjin Daihatsu, since they are the two largest passenger car production enterprises in China representing quite different patterns of China's enterprises respectively.

Pages: 18 pages
Date: 1997-01
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/dp/97/f2/contents.htm (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tky:fseres:97f02

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CIRJE F-Series from CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CIRJE administrative office ().