The automotive industry leads the manufacturing industry

At the "2007 China Automotive Industry Summit Forum" held yesterday in Shanghai, the participating experts recommended that China consider the automobile industry as the "leading industry" of industrialization and promote the improvement of the entire industry.

Chen Qingtai, a researcher of the Development Research Center of the State Council and former chairman of auto companies such as Shenlong and Dongfeng, said that the automobile has the characteristics of long industry chain, large industrial scale, and intensive technology. It is “the number of parts is tens of thousands and the annual output is tens of millions. The ten-thousand-year-old commodities that have been in existence for ten thousands of years can be crowns and leaders in manufacturing.

Yin Mingshan, chairman of Lifan Holdings Co., Ltd., said that the direct and indirect jobs provided by the car currently account for one-sixth of the employment population in China's cities and towns. The production and consumption of cars in China will have an explosive growth. Although China currently has disadvantages such as high energy consumption and road congestion, China’s automobile policy in the future should still be “restricting the use of cars and encouraging the purchase of cars”.

Policy focus should be on the automotive industry chain

Experts present at the meeting stated that at present, most of the "home-grown manufacturing" formed in China is the use of imported products, parts, and equipment to process assembly vehicles. It is only a sales model for foreign investment, and it is difficult to guide the upgrading of China's industries. It should be the country's policy goal.

Chen Qingtai believes that the focus of China’s automobile policy should shift to focusing on the entire automotive industry chain, especially the weak links in the industrial chain, and consider a bottleneck as the proposition of domestic corporate technological progress and a breakthrough in industrial upgrading so that the automobile industry can promote industrialization. positive effects.

Participating experts also stated that in response to the emerging issues in the automotive industry and related energy industries, relevant departments and local governments have consistently issued relevant policies, and in the absence of guidance from the top-level policy framework, they often miss out. Contradictions.

Chen Qingtai introduced that on the one hand, the country implements energy-saving priority policies. On the other hand, fuel tax and other policies have not been introduced yet. As a result, large-scale, high-fuel-consuming vehicles have enjoyed strong consumption. In addition, although the country has set a timetable for vehicle emission reduction and oil quality improvement, it is difficult for refinery companies to have the incentive to achieve fuel quality standards through technical renovation due to the inverted oil prices and the oil refining losses.

Some companies also believe that whether the third phase of the automobile emission standards can be implemented in 2008. The views of government departments are not consistent, and most of the refinery and auto companies are looking to the left and right, and are reluctant to rush to invest fuel and vehicles that meet the standards first, so as to avoid market losses.

Therefore, Chen Qingtai stressed that in order to cope with the situation after China’s accession to the WTO, the country has intensified a series of policies in recent years, which has enabled the Chinese automobile industry to successfully transition, but as Chinese cars gradually move from a joint venture to a global alliance, policy priorities should be adjusted in time. To ensure consistency with policy objectives.

Energy conservation and new energy should receive financial support

Faced with the reality of the backward developed countries in China's entire automotive industry, how to select the focus of post-commissioning has become the focus of the automotive industry. Yu Zhuoping, Dean of the School of Automotive Engineering at Tongji University, believes that automobile development will eventually shift from traditional fuel vehicles to hydrogen-powered vehicles through the transitional period of gas-fueled vehicles, electric vehicles, and other drive systems.

Yu Zhuoping said that at present, developed countries are pouring a lot of financial support for the research and development of energy-saving and new energy vehicles, so he proposed that in the research and development of new energy vehicles, national special funds for science and technology should be established; in the sales process, vehicle purchase tax should be reduced or eliminated, and promotion Market development; In the operational phase, fuel tax should be implemented as soon as possible to promote the widespread use of energy-saving vehicles.

Yu Zhuoping emphasized that the development of energy-saving vehicles and the formation of independent intellectual property rights are major strategic choices for safeguarding China's oil security and achieving sustainable development of the automotive industry.