Cheng Yuan: The auto market has topped China to continue to be international Bethune?

In the first nine months of this year, China’s automobile production and sales volume exceeded 13 million vehicles, which is close to the level of the previous year. The China Automotive Industry Association expects that annual production and sales will exceed 17 million vehicles. This means that China’s auto market has reached the highest level in the history of the United States and has reached the “peak” in the history of the global automobile. It has become the absolute number one in the world, and in the foreseeable future, probably no market in the world may exceed China.

All along, the rapid development of the Chinese automotive market, people see only the hard work of the automotive industry. Yes, it is the efforts of many auto manufacturers that provide the market with a wealth of automotive products. The Chinese auto market has been prosperous and prosperous today. In 30 years, the market scale has expanded nearly 100 times. But at the same time, we should also see that it is the vast majority of the Chinese people, that is, consumers, using their own hard-earned money, to turn the “products” of tens of millions of cars produced by automobile factories into “supplies.”

Although the production and sales of automobiles have created a large amount of GDP for governments at all levels, they have also paid considerable tax revenues, spurred related industries and created many job opportunities. However, in order to create an environment capable of accommodating 86 million cars, the Chinese government has used a large amount of fiscal revenue to build countless roads and parking lots, while vigorously developing public transportation to free up space for cars; in order to supply increasing amounts of automotive oil, investment has been made. Oil exploitation and development; similarly, a large amount of fiscal revenue has been used to improve the urban environment and air quality, so that Chinese cities have barely endured so many cars. Even so, the Chinese people who live in big cities today, whether they are car owners or car-free people, still have to endure unbearable congestion every day, have to breathe the dirtiest air in the world, and car owners have to pay more. The more expensive oil prices come.

In order to get more and more cars to run, how much does the Chinese people have to pay for the economic costs, how much time it spends on the roads of congestion each day, the health costs of breathing dirty air, and how much money they will continue to pay, I am afraid that no one can Calculated accurately.

As we all know, China's auto brands have not only started late but also are small in scale. They are the multinational companies that sell innumerable automotive products in the Chinese market. They have created the world's largest traffic jam in China, leaving the Chinese people with the world's most filthy At the same time as dirty air, it has also gained tremendous profits in China. According to statistics, of the pre-tax profits received by Volkswagen in the first quarter of this year, half were contributed by the Chinese market. Of the net profit of Honda Motors in fiscal 2009 of US$3.18 billion, the Chinese market provided as much as US$2.86 billion, accounting for 90% of the total. Corresponding to this, how much has transnational corporations contributed to compensate the Chinese for traffic congestion and air pollution?

Since last year, almost all automotive multinationals have stated that China is their most important market in the world and they have expressed that they must further increase investment in China and increase production capacity. That is to say, more cars must be built in China. More and more Transnational corporations must turn China into their "world's largest market." According to their respective announced development plans, only 8 companies would want to occupy more than 90% of China's auto market share, which will undoubtedly make China's traffic conditions and environmental quality issues more severe. Needless to say, improving the current state of transportation and the environment, maintaining balance only with future car growth, and maintaining the current level of congestion and pollution also require a huge investment.

In the past decade or so, China’s autos have continued to grow at a double-digit rate. China has devoted its sales and profits to multinational corporations and has left all the problems it brings with it. This spirit of unfavorable benefit to multinational corporations is also only comparable to that of Bethune.

Today, does China continue to be an unselfish and fearless "International Bethune" and provide "free lunches" for multinational corporations to allow them to take care of their profits in the Chinese market, taking care of building cars and selling cars with endless ease? What are all the social problems caused by automobiles?