China's auto parts industry after years of independent development and experience accumulation

Release time: 2023-02-14

Due to the extremely stringent requirements for safety and reliability in the automotive consumer market, international organisations, national and regional automotive associations have started to establish and implement corresponding quality management standards for components, i.e. component suppliers must pass a third-party assessment by these organisations before they can be identified as candidate suppliers by vehicle manufacturers.

Only when a candidate supplier has passed the second-party assessment led by the vehicle manufacturer can it be identified by the vehicle manufacturer as a member of the global sourcing system. As a vehicle manufacturer and upper tier component supplier, it usually does not adopt the matching supply model, but will choose multiple suppliers to provide stable and reliable products for it.

On the one hand, as the basis for the development of China's auto industry, the overall strength of domestic auto parts enterprises is still weak, compared with mature foreign enterprises there is still a large gap. For a period of time, due to the overall low investment in technology research and development of domestic auto parts suppliers, and the relative lack of importance attached to the industry by local governments, resulting in the overall technical level of enterprises in the industry lagging behind, with relatively insufficient independent development capabilities and a strong reliance on technology input.

Among the few domestic enterprises with product development capability, most of them can only meet the requirements of localisation and implement adaptive development, and generally do not have the ability to engage in basic R&D, synchronous development, system development and advanced development.

On the other hand, China's auto parts industry after years of independent development and experience accumulation, product development and technological innovation capabilities than in the past has improved significantly, and cultivated a number of development and design capabilities and larger scale parts enterprises. At present, China's auto parts enterprises have basically been able to meet the vehicle supporting market and after-sales service market growing market demand, and gradually with commercial vehicles, low-end passenger car parts development and product supporting capacity and part of the high-end passenger car parts and components of the introduction of cutting-edge technology and digestion capacity.

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