Research Of R & D Capability Promotion In Chinese Car Makers

The production and sales of Chinese car makers have rocketed to be No 1 in the world af ter the quick growth in the past few years, but Chinese car industry can't be called strong. The re are several reasons, the main reason might be the weakness of R&D capability. It embodie s three aspects as follows. The first is that local brand isn't the mainstream of the trade, can only focus on the middle level or low level products. The second is that local OEMs depend o n the foreign side technology too much or still stay at the step of copy development. The third is that local OEMs rely too much on foreign capital parts maker, commission development is the normal way. While the reasons which lead to the weakness of the R&D capability could b e summarized as follows. The policy of "Get the technology by winning the market" which was adopted by Chinese government in the beginning stage of car industry development result s in the root cause of illness; The capital investment is quite limited in Chinese car makers; L ack of specialty persons; R&D center is still in the "baby" stage. Because of above reasons, r esearch and development work couldn't get along very well.Dissertation presented countermeasures and advices to promote R&D capability which i s based on current situation of Chinese car industry by collecting the related theories, compari ng with the advanced R&D mode,proper R&D investment and the good way of fostering spe cialty person in oversea car makers, deeply analyzing the R&D work contents and status in re presentative Chinese car maker. The advices are as follows. Strengthen constructing R&D cen ter to create new platform for Chinese brand; The establishment of multi-ply R&D mode; Cha llenge the core technology of vehicles which means the breakthrough of engine high-tech tec hnology. The way of strengthening R&D center includes following aspects. Make sure the R&D investment, strive for the independent operation of R&D. Build and bring up hiberarch y competent R&D team and keep it steady.Effective combination between Matrix project tea m and simultaneous engineering. Keep the same development rhythm between the vehicles a nd the parts. Hope that above advices are helpful to Chinese car makers and useful as referenc e to the promotion of R&D capability. The parts of conclusion summarized the points of the a rticle.