The Competitive Advantage Of China's Automotive Industry From The Perspective Of Industry Cluster Analysis

As the innovation and combination is developing, our automobile industry has taken place some new change, which tends to centralize regionally. There are four most representative regions. The first is the area along the Bohai Ocean, which mainly contains Jilin, Liaoning, Tianjin and Beijing. The second is the area along the Changjiang River, which mainly contains Chekiang, Nanking and Shanghai. The third is the Northwest area, which mainly contains Hubei and Chongqing. The last is the area near the Zhujiang River, which mainly contains Guangzhou.But China has not form the proper cluster of automobile industry at the present time. At the same time, the competition in international economy is actually the competition in industry cluster which not only becomes the basic element of world economy, but also stands for the competition power of a nation or a region. China has a huge market of automobile, but from the aspect of the industry's competition power, our nation has a long distance to catch up with the developed country. So we must develop industry cluster to realize the change from a big country to a powerful country in automobile industry.This paper analyses the status of automobile industry in the four main regions, analyses the competitive advantage of our automobile industry by using the Diamond Theory, then makes a comparative research to discuss why the automobile industry in America and Japan is superior to others in the world, finally put forwards the key factors and suggestions for the development of automobile industry in China. The purpose of this paper is to help the relevant people understand the competitive advantage of our automobile industry thoroughly and promote the generation and development of our proper cluster of automobile industry.The contents of this paper are listed as following:Chapter One is a relatively comprehensive review of the result of previous research and the introduction of Diamond Theory.Chapter Two is an analysis of the status of automobile industry in the four main regions mentioned above.Chapter Three is an analysis of the competitive advantage of our automobile industry in the aspect of factor conditions, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, firm strategy and rivalry, opportunity and government.Chapter Four is an example analysis of the automobile industry in America and Japan to make sure the cause of their success.Chapter Five is the proposals for the development of automobile industry in China in accordance with the key factors of the development of automobile industry.The innovation of this paper is that it combines the Diamond Theory andthe signification of industry cluster, analyses the competitive advantage of our automobile industry systematically, and forecasts the status of the regions where the proper cluster of our automobile industry develops according as the situation of convergence in automobile industry currently, which has some academic and practical meanings at a certain extent to improve the competitive advantage of automobile industry of our nation.