Growth of a Giant: A Historical and Current Perspective on the Chinese Automobile Industry with an Insight into its Global and Local Impacts
The automobile industry in China has marched into its 5th decade since 1956 and in 2009 surpassed the USA as the giant of the global automobile supplier and consumer. Rapidly increasing motorization in China exerts unprecedented economic, social and environmental effects at home and abroad. This pap...
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| description | The automobile industry in China has marched into its 5th decade since 1956 and in 2009 surpassed the USA as the giant of the global automobile supplier and consumer. Rapidly increasing motorization in China exerts unprecedented economic, social and environmental effects at home and abroad. This paper aims to provide a synoptic overview of the Chinese automobile industry, classifying it into four distinct phases, which are characterized by the prevailing institutional environments. These are the Start-up Phase from 1956 to 1978, Growing Phase from 1979 to 2001, Prosperity Phase from 2002 to 2010 and finally the Stationary Phase from 2011 until the present day. It analyses China’s national political, economic, trade, international relations and other factors and how these affected the development of the overall Chinese automobile industry, with a specific emphasis on the formulated and applied automobile industry policies. The dramatic growth in the automobile industry currently faces a potential period of declines as China’s latest industrial policies focus on alleviating the ownership and use of private vehicles, especially in its major cities. Thus China has entered an era similar to other developed nations sand cities though it has made such economic changes at a speed and scale unparalleled in history. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-66812018-12-14T00:46:56Z Growth of a Giant: A Historical and Current Perspective on the Chinese Automobile Industry with an Insight into its Global and Local Impacts Gao, Yuan Kenworthy, Jeffrey Newman, Peter IENE Editorial Board The automobile industry in China has marched into its 5th decade since 1956 and in 2009 surpassed the USA as the giant of the global automobile supplier and consumer. Rapidly increasing motorization in China exerts unprecedented economic, social and environmental effects at home and abroad. This paper aims to provide a synoptic overview of the Chinese automobile industry, classifying it into four distinct phases, which are characterized by the prevailing institutional environments. These are the Start-up Phase from 1956 to 1978, Growing Phase from 1979 to 2001, Prosperity Phase from 2002 to 2010 and finally the Stationary Phase from 2011 until the present day. It analyses China’s national political, economic, trade, international relations and other factors and how these affected the development of the overall Chinese automobile industry, with a specific emphasis on the formulated and applied automobile industry policies. The dramatic growth in the automobile industry currently faces a potential period of declines as China’s latest industrial policies focus on alleviating the ownership and use of private vehicles, especially in its major cities. Thus China has entered an era similar to other developed nations sand cities though it has made such economic changes at a speed and scale unparalleled in history. 2014 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6681 http://abstracts.aetransport.org/paper/index/id/4403/confid/19 IENE restricted |
| spellingShingle | Gao, Yuan Kenworthy, Jeffrey Newman, Peter Growth of a Giant: A Historical and Current Perspective on the Chinese Automobile Industry with an Insight into its Global and Local Impacts |
| title | Growth of a Giant: A Historical and Current Perspective on the Chinese Automobile Industry with an Insight into its Global and Local Impacts |
| title_full | Growth of a Giant: A Historical and Current Perspective on the Chinese Automobile Industry with an Insight into its Global and Local Impacts |
| title_fullStr | Growth of a Giant: A Historical and Current Perspective on the Chinese Automobile Industry with an Insight into its Global and Local Impacts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Growth of a Giant: A Historical and Current Perspective on the Chinese Automobile Industry with an Insight into its Global and Local Impacts |
| title_short | Growth of a Giant: A Historical and Current Perspective on the Chinese Automobile Industry with an Insight into its Global and Local Impacts |
| title_sort | growth of a giant: a historical and current perspective on the chinese automobile industry with an insight into its global and local impacts |
| url | http://abstracts.aetransport.org/paper/index/id/4403/confid/19 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6681 |