The Study Of Japan's Auto Industry Policy And The Lessons For China

Auto industry is a pillar industry which is in the interest of economic security in our country. After China joined WTO, with the intensively degree of the opening market and the world economic integration, the Chinese automobile market will become a part of the world automobile market and the auto industry will face the international competiton directly.Since the 1950s, the automobile industry in Japanese have gone strongly and occupied the status in the world automobile market under the protection, support and promotion of the industry policy. The rapidly history of the automobile industry in Japanese means the enrich and perfect of industry policy. Industrial policy of Japan is an evolutionary process from industrial organization policy to strategic trade policy, the latter continues to the former in the time; in policy objective, the former focuses on scale economy of domestic auto industry and the latter focuses on achieving favorable conditions in international trade; while in policy effect, the former offers base as well as other conditions for the latter.There is a kind of trend in automobile industry that the more stronger wins the more. Only possess the essential objective condition, choose the correct industry developing strategically and good at utilizing the favorable opportunity, the industry could make last success. As to our country, carrying on the industry policy to adjust organization rationalization and help auto industry technological innovation, which is important and urgent apparently.The paper concludes the experience by the analyze of the auto industry policy, and provides the referrence of theory and practice in order to accelerate the building of auto industry policy. After the overall analysis of Japan's auto industry policy, while considering the immediate present of China's auto industry after fulfilling the WTO promise, and according to the data of China's auto industry market structure and scale economy level at present, we can make a conclusion that the best policy for developing China's auto industry at the current stage is combining industrial organization policy which focus on developing scale economy and strategic trade policy which focus on R&D subsidies.