The automobile industry spends three years of protection period and balances into 2005


According to the "Protocol on China's Accession to the World Trade Organization," China will abolish import quotas and license management for automobiles and key parts from 2005. The three-year transitional protection measures for automotive products will expire at the end of this year. During the three-year protection period, China's auto industry has undergone tremendous changes. The automobile output has doubled in three years. The auto market has changed from seller to buyer. The car price has become more reasonable. 4 million households have rounded up the dream of the car ahead of schedule. China's auto industry has become an important component of the world auto industry. The auto market in China is considered to be The market with the greatest potential for future development. Properly responding to the promotion of the development of the automobile industry is considered to be the most vulnerable industry after China's accession to the WTO. Since joining the WTO three years ago, due to the proper response, imported cars have had a severe impact on the domestic auto industry. While automobile imports have increased substantially year after year, the reorganization of domestic automobile industry and the entry of foreign capital have accelerated markedly, and there has been a good momentum of rapid growth and booming production and sales. In 2003, China’s automobile output exceeded 4 million for the first time, including more than 2 million cars, making it the world’s fourth-largest automobile producer. In 2004, with the relatively low domestic auto market, China’s auto output is expected to exceed the 5 million mark for the first time. Compared with the previous year, the growth rate is about 15%. With the global automobile production and sales basically flat, this growth rate is very impressive. In the negotiations for China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, opening up the auto market is one of the most difficult aspects to be discussed. After arduous efforts, a valuable three-year transition period was achieved. That is, from 2002 to 2004, the quota license management of automobile imports continued to be implemented. The import quota for automobiles and their key parts was increased by 15% per year on the basis of 6 billion US dollars in 2000. At the same time, auto import tariffs have been reduced year by year. The tariffs on vehicles have dropped from 70% (below 3 liters) and 80% (3 liters or more) in 2001 to 25% on July 1, 2006. According to the commitments, since January 1, 2002, the country lowered the auto import tariffs three times, and the tariffs on imported cars with a displacement of 3 liters or more and 3 liters or less have been reduced from 80% and 70% before China’s accession to 37.6% and 34.2 this year respectively. %, respectively, reduced by 42.4 percentage points and 35.8 percentage points. Import demand shifts domestic competent authorities to seriously analyze the contents of commitments and the endurance capacity of China's auto industry, and how to use the opportunity to fulfill commitments to promote the development of the domestic auto industry, put forward total control, orderly competition, optimize the structure, and ensure the satisfaction of domestic The working ideas needed for production effectively resolved the excessive impact that China's accession to the WTO may have on China's auto industry. Orderly and tight import management policies have forced auto multinational corporations to expand or accelerate the pace of investment in China, and induced a "blowout" in domestic auto consumption demand, shifting the demand for imported cars to the demand for domestically produced cars. Due to proper measures, excessive growth of imported cars was effectively suppressed, and at the same time fundamental changes to the structure of imported automobiles were made, making imported cars a useful supplement to the domestic automobile market. According to customs statistics, in 2003 China's auto vehicle imports (including 28,300 units of spare parts) reached 172,683 units, an increase of 100,000 vehicles from 2001 before the accession to the WTO, of which the number of cars imported exceeded 100,000 for the first time. In the first three quarters of this year, imported auto vehicles only increased by 5% over the same period of last year. The proportion of imported cars that accounted for the highest percentage of imported cars, which accounted for a lower proportion of domestic sales of cars, fell from 6% to less than 5%. At the same time, there are three major characteristics of car imports, one is the higher and higher grades, the average unit price of imports over 30,000 US dollars; second is the larger and larger displacement; the third is basically the domestic can not produce models. In allocating vehicle import quotas, the competent authorities arranged for the import of complete sets of spare parts and key parts used for production and production to meet the requirements of domestic production enterprises to promptly launch new car products. The introduction of new car products replaced some imported cars and improved The manufacturing technology level, management level, and grades of domestic automobiles of domestic auto companies have laid the foundation for the development of domestic auto companies and have also increased employment. Three years of hard work, seven changes, and accession to the World Trade Organization In the past three years, the Chinese automobile industry, which has been protected by high trade barriers, has managed to create a gradual, orderly and open market environment through the effective management of the relevant government departments and the joint efforts of the industry. The development of the automobile industry has created favorable conditions. The Chinese auto industry has undergone profound changes: First, the rapid growth of automobile production and sales, and the output of automobiles has doubled in three years. Second, the structure of automotive products is more reasonable, and the proportion of cars has increased dramatically, from less than 30% in 2001 to nearly half now. Third, the degree of industrial concentration has improved. Fourth, the economic benefits have been greatly improved. Fifth, new products have been introduced continuously. Sixth, export of automotive products maintained rapid growth. Seventh, significant progress has been made in industrial restructuring. At the same time, major changes have also taken place in the domestic automobile market. One is the change from the seller's market to the buyer's market. Some of the first two years required long lines and even increased fares to mention the domestic cars of the current car. Now it is not so tight. The phenomenon of increasing the sales price of cars has become a thing of the past. Second, private car purchase has become the mainstream of current market consumption. The proportion of private cars, including trucks, buses, and sedans, exceeds 50%. The proportion of private cars purchased exceeds 80%, and the proportion of private cars purchased by Beijing reaches 90%. The third is that imported cars have been transformed from the original role of quantity supplementation into the role of variety adjustment in the domestic market. Although China's auto industry has made great progress in the past three years since its entry into the WTO, there is still a big gap between the overall level and the advanced level in the world. After 2005, China's auto industry still does not have the ability to compete internationally. Can not adapt to the international competition after the opening of the market. Some analysis shows that the comprehensive indicators of China's auto industry's international competitiveness are only 41.7% in the United States, 47.3% in Germany, 42.4% in Japan, and 61.6% in South Korea. Therefore, after the end of the protection period, we will establish and improve the early warning mechanism for imported cars, encourage domestic manufacturers to increase their own development capabilities, promote domestic vehicle manufacturers to expand the scale, reduce costs, and promote the competitiveness of parts and plants to increase their core competitiveness. This will increase the competitiveness of China's auto industry as soon as possible. Power is very important. Zhang Yi