Parts are the biggest weakness in China's auto industry

At the annual meeting of the China Association of Automobile Engineers in 2010, He Guangyuan, former Minister of Machinery Industry, stated that auto parts and components are the soft underbelly of China's auto industry, especially in key components.

He Guangyuan stated that compared with the automobile industry powerhouse, China’s auto industry has always been a weakness in parts and components, especially core technology components, and the gap with foreign countries is even more obvious. Although many manufacturers are now doing but their strength is not strong, lack of core technologies. Such as automatic transmission, automotive electronics, engine common rail technology, etc., basically monopolized by foreign advanced manufacturers, China's auto companies in the autonomous development has been greatly limited.

He Guangyuan suggested that, on the one hand, companies should strengthen the R&D of automotive industrial parts and components. On the other hand, the government should give priority support and fill up the “shortcomings” of parts and components in the development of China's auto industry as soon as possible. Especially with the current automotive electronics industry. With the increasing proportion of parts and components, this task has become even more urgent.

Zhang Xiaoyu, executive vice president of the China Federation of Machinery Industry and president of the China Automotive Engineering Society, said that more than 80% of the core components of China's new energy vehicle power batteries are imported.

Zhang Xiaolu introduced that the current electric vehicle is the main body of the development of new energy vehicles in China, and the key technologies of electric vehicles include three parts: battery, electric motor and electronic control. Among them, the battery is the most important part. In these aspects, China is still in research and development. To the stage of industrialization, but unfortunately, at present, China's power battery core components cathode and battery separator, more than 80% need to be imported.

Zhang Xiaozheng said that the high import rate of core components of power batteries sounded a warning bell for China's development of new energy vehicles. China is the world's country with the most abundant lithium resources and has the resource advantages of developing power batteries. It is gratifying that current China has already begun to attach importance to the research and development of power batteries, especially investment in power battery basics and common technologies.