Smart Car in China
"Foreign-origin brands, most of which are manufactured in China through joint ventures, accounted for 64 percent of total sales in 2010, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. As of 2009, foreign car companies held 85 percent of the Chinese car market. GM was the No. 1 auto maker in 2009. Volkswagen was No. 2. GM sold a record 1.83 million units in 2009
In the 1980s, foreign automakers were allowed to form joint ventures with state-owned Chinese partners with foreign ownership limited to 50 percent. The goal of the government was to develop a car industry quickly, learning from the foreign companies how to make cars while maintaining control of the car industry. Volkswagen and American Motors were the first. VW came and built the Santana model to serve the envisioned need for taxis. American Motors came and built Jeeps. Originally, they thought that this would be a good model given China's rural infrastructure. The American Motors/Beijing Auto Works #3 was the joint venture that formed the basis of China's Joint Venture Law. Every one made out well in part because competition was strictly controlled."
The article is culled for the site link above, but most importantly, the report confirms that China is under partnerships with foreign car makers for their intent to learn car making from other foreign countries, and in that way they can have that technology transfers needed by them.
To find truth to our quest of becoming a car manufacturer of our own, we should also in the same methodology, must insist that our government should lure foreign companies to invest in partnerships with them and attain that status of a car manufacturing country.
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