China on Wheels——The Volkswagen Success Story

• 作者: QIUJIANGHONG
• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 经济
• 关键词: 大众汽车公司 中国 汽车工业 市场销售
• 年，卷（期）: 2003,（10）
• 页码范围: 10-13
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: F426.471

摘要

"When are you going to buy car?"is a question frequently heard these days. Over the past few years,automobiles have become a feature of Chinese households.China's first automobile manufacturing base was 50 years ago in Changchun, Jilin Provice. For three decades, produciton was limited to old-style lorries, and a limited number of Red-flag brand carrs for government use. Technology as outdated and output capacity low. The few family cars on Chinese roads were imported.In the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping,pioneer of China's reform and opening policy, decided to develop China's national automobile industry in order that the Chinese people might drive Chinesemade rathe than foreign cars.In the following two decades,with the estabishment of joint ventures,the Chinese automobile industry boomed.By 1998 China had become one of the top the automobile manufacturing countries in the world. Now,in 2003,with an estimated annual production volume of 4 million vehicles,China ranks fourth in the world. The developement of the automobile industry has brought an enormous change to he Chinese people. The development of the automobile industry has brought an enormous change to the Chinese people. The increasing number of family cars enriches their lives, stimulates the tourism industry, and keeps business at car repair firms and driving schools brisk. Since China put it self on wheels, an increasing number of leading world automobile companies have focused on its market.