"Weichai, yuchai, tin firewood and method, fuyao glass, wearing a truck wheel, universal, ningbo huaxiang and catic parts, air sheng and all - the rise of a large number of automotive electronic enterprises, and changan, brilliance, jianghuai, major automotive companies such as chery, sinotruk independently developed components for the powertrain system, etc. These will be the backbone and foundation for the future development of auto parts in China." Recently, the China automobile industry association deputy secretary-general Ye Shengji in the 2014 annual meeting of the Chinese auto parts industry to do the strategy guide, the zero synergy - strive to become bigger and stronger China auto parts industry "theme, the report said China's automobile parts basic development situation is good, but the industry scale expands unceasingly will cause the change of the competitive landscape, The future development of Chinese brand parts enterprises will be more and more difficult.
90% of the products of Chinese brand parts and components are concentrated in the middle and low end
"The market share of Chinese brand-name component companies is on a downward trend." Ye Shengji said at the meeting, according to incomplete statistics, the number of parts and components enterprises is more than 10,000 (less than 6,000 large-scale enterprises). Foreign-funded enterprises (sole proprietorship 45%, Sino-foreign joint venture 55%) account for 20% of the scale enterprises, and their market share is more than 70%. The market share of Chinese brand-name component companies is less than 30 percent, of which 90 percent of the products are concentrated in the middle and low end.
Ye Shengji believes that in recent years, foreign-owned and Sino-foreign joint ventures have emerged rapidly, monopolizing key and core technologies, and Chinese brand parts and components tend to be marginalized. Among the parts and components enterprises that master the key and core technologies, the enterprises with foreign background account for more than 3/4 of the whole industry (wholly foreign-owned enterprises account for 40%, Sino-foreign joint ventures account for about 35%), and the non-core parts are concentrated in the Chinese brand parts and components enterprises. "The technological content of automobiles is mainly reflected in the key and core parts, and the development of parts enterprises has become the key for China's auto industry to become bigger and stronger." Mr Ye said foreign companies accounted for 90 per cent of the market in high-tech areas such as automotive electronics and key engine parts, with 95 per cent and more than 90 per cent of core parts such as engine management systems (including electric injection) and ABS.
The development of parts industry urgently needs top-level design
Due to the lack of investment in research and development, lack of talents, poor technological innovation and lack of original products, Chinese brand parts and components enterprises are difficult to compete with foreign advanced enterprises in independent innovation ability and core competitiveness of products.
Ye Shengji believes that the current development of parts in China is facing challenges from various aspects.
First, at present the country lack of auto parts industry strategic transformation and upgrading of system planning, the lack of encouragement and support of key parts and components development and production of relevant supporting policies, the prompt development of automobile parts enterprises struggle alone, cannot form resultant force, key components cannot be targeted to a specific technology for joint research and breakthrough.
Second, in the face of national energy conservation, environmental protection, safety regulations and other aspects of the increasingly strict requirements, in the face of the vehicle enterprises from the supporting procurement quality requirements continue to strengthen, China's auto parts enterprises are facing the overall quality improvement pressure.
Thirdly, it has become a basic requirement for the parts and components enterprises to develop simultaneously with the vehicle enterprises. Facing the future, it is required that spare parts enterprises should not only have the basic development ability, but also have the advanced technology development ability.
Fourthly, some Chinese brand auto parts enterprises have insufficient understanding of the industry, lack of strategic planning, lack of actual investment, pursuit of short-term benefits, and lack of research and development, production, management and talent, etc., resulting in a growing gap in the development of Chinese brand parts enterprises and foreign enterprises.
Fifth, all parts and components enterprises in order to meet the requirements of automobile enterprises have implemented the ISO9000, ISO/TS16949 certification, but some enterprises to obtain certification of the purpose of understanding is insufficient, management system implementation is not enough, the system operation performance is poor, it is difficult to ensure the continuous stability of product quality.
In addition, for a long time, the cooperation relationship between vehicle and parts enterprises is not harmonious, and the cooperation between whole and parts enterprises needs to be improved urgently. At the same time, the cooperation between the components enterprises and the upstream industry is also in urgent need of strengthening.
Under the new normal, China's auto parts industry must realize transformation and upgrading to find a way out. Ye Shengji believes that in order to lead the healthy development of the auto parts industry, it is necessary to study and determine the future development direction of the parts industry as soon as possible, and formulate the future development plan and target of the parts industry. By 2025, we will establish and improve a complete supply system of spare parts with strong international competitiveness, form a basically complete product research and development system, and basically realize the strategic transformation of China's spare parts industry from manufacturing to creation.