A Comparative Study On The Competitiveness Automobile Industries Between China And Korea

Looking through the history of automobile industries of South Korea and China,we can know this: First, the automobile industries of the two countries almost startedat the same time-in the1950s, and began from imitation. Second, they have sameconsumption level of domestic automobile, financial condition, capital, governmentpolicy and industrial environment. Today in the21st century, Korean automobileindustry has highly competitive position, while Chinese automobile industry is stillstruggling for this. We contrast development situation of Chinese automobile industrywith South Korea’s, reveal advanced development experience of South Koreanautomobile industry through the all-round analysis of them, then find the solution.Based on the theory of international competitiveness, the paper studies theimpact of the international competitiveness of industry factors. According to thecurrent situation of the development of the automobile industry in China and SouthKorea, combined with the auto industry its own characteristics, the paper builtautomobile industry international competitiveness evaluation index system. Makeevaluation system as a whole, explained each index in the system, using the expertscoring method to determine the core index, analyzes the impact of these indicatorsfor the international competitiveness of the automobile industry. And select the keyindicators of international competitiveness of the automobile industry of China andSouth Korea as the samples, using expert scoring method and index comprehensiveevaluation method for analysis and evaluation, focus on measurement results,analyzes international competitiveness of the two countries’ automobile industry.Through analysis and evaluation, the article come a comprehensive scores of theautomobile industry of China and South Korea in the four aspects are environmentalcompetitiveness, organizational competitiveness, innovation competitiveness andinternational performance competitiveness. According to the comprehensive scores ofthe automobile industry of the two countries, the outcome is the competitiveness ofChinese automobile industry is weaker than the South Korea’s. Finally, the paperanalyzes the results of the evaluation, identify the gap between the two countries inthe automotive industry and the reasons of the gap. Combined with the actualsituation of Chinese automobile industry, article research results show that thedegrees of industrial concentration, innovation ability, the international market share etc. are the shortcomings of China’s automobile industry. We suggest that China canmake efforts on strengthening the government traction, develop creative ability,strongly developing the parts industry and adjust the export strategy these fouraspects, promote the international competitiveness of automobile industry.