在中国汽车行业的不同的战略定位外文翻译、英汉互译、中英对照.doc

Different Strategies of Localization in the Chinese Auto Industry: The Cases of Shanghai Volkswagen and Tianjin Daihatsu (Draft) Chunli Lee, Jin Chen, Takahiro Fujimoto Working Paper for the MIT 1996 IMVP Sponsors Meetin Sao Paulo, Brazil 9-12 June 1996 1. Introduction Localization in the process of economic development is a topic that has been long long discussed. Along with the process of economic reform and policy of opening to the outside world, Chinas auto industry, which has been trying to realize subsitution for imports, has come to a point of new development. In terms of its production technology, the Chinese auto industry at the stage of switching from commercial vehicle (esp. truck) production to car manufacturing.After 1984 Chinas major auto makers began to form technical tie-ups or establish joint ventures with foreign auto companies,accumulated and digested the production and management technologies,and promoted localization gradually. This eventually led to the establishment of the Big 3, Small 3, and Mini 2 system toward late 80s and 90s. Generally speaking, the manufacturing technology of cars is much more complicated than that of commercial vehicles. Therefore China has adopted a different strategy to develop its car industry-- incremental localization by introducing foreign capital and technology, a strategy often seen in other developing countries, but deviating from the self-reliance approach in its commercial vehicle production. Although some research has been conducted on the overall industrial organization of Chinese auto industry and the Big 3, Small 3 system, no one has attempted to examine the localization strategy in Chinas car production and compare the production systems between typical companies.Although remarkable research has been done on the overall auto industries and localization in developing countries, China has been excluded from the research because of its different economic system. Since China is a culturally and economically