International Competitiveness Of China's Automobile Industry Factors Influencing

After nearly 20 years of rapid development, the automobile industry of China has rounded into one of the five dominant industries among the domestic industry, and China's automobile market has been integrated the most important and the most potential part of the global automobile market. China's automobile industry is faced with more opportunity and challenge. To study the factors that influence the industrial international competition of automobile industry will not only be meaningful in guiding the automobile industry to a further development in China, but also bring in much revelation for our country to develop other industries with competitive advantage.The paper has used the method which the qualitative analysis and the quantitative analysis unified, first, the author has particularly analyzed the theories of competitiveness, industry competitiveness and the international industry competitiveness in and out our country. Next, the author analyzed the situation of China's automobile industry, including the status of China's automobile industry, the automobile industry in product market share and export competitiveness. The paper qualitatively analyzed the influence factors of international competitiveness of the automobile industry in China, all of the price, the enterprise scale, the degree of industry concentration, the relative sustaining industry, R&D level, labor productivity, government management and FDI will influence the China's automobile industry competitiveness to different degree. The author using the data from 1995-2006, through the creation of multiple regression model to test the impact the enterprise scale, the degree of industry concentration, price, R&D level and FDI do to the international competitiveness of China's automobile industry. It is found that the enhancement of the automobile enterprise scale, the degree of industry concentration and FDI, may enhance the competitiveness of the automobile industry, but the price and R&D level have no obvious function to the automobile industry competitiveness.At last, aiming at the present situation of the automobile industry in China, and basing on the study results, the paper educed some countermeasures for improving the international competitiveness of China's automobile industry.