It is hoped that LZ can create its own intellectual property rights for my country's automobiles and get rid of its dependence on foreign countries in automobile manufacturing technology.

Strengthening independent development is the only way to revitalize China's automobile industry. China's automobile market demand is growing rapidly. All major foreign automobile manufacturing companies in the world have entered China in the form of joint ventures. Only a slight loosening of controls has also led to the prevalence of the KD assembly method.

In addition to the many existing automobile companies in China, there are more places and companies gearing up to enter the automobile industry.

Behind this "chaotic" situation is an approaching danger: under China's commitment to join the WTO, the Chinese government's protection for its automobile industry will be significantly reduced, and the market will become more and more open, thus making the Chinese automobile industry weak.

Weaknesses are increasingly exposed to powerful competitors.

What key decisions should be made at such a critical moment?

The conclusion of this report is that switching to independent development is the only way to put China's automobile industry on the road to healthy development.

In other words, independent development is the "keyword" for revitalizing China's automobile industry.

Why should independent development still be emphasized under conditions of economic globalization?

Since some people still oppose the promotion of independent development on the grounds of the current trend of economic globalization, calling for strengthening independent development requires clarifying the necessity of doing so from a theoretical level.

Economic globalization is the flow of goods, services, capital and a small number of "highly skilled" human resources across national borders.

However, in any foreseeable period of time, economic globalization has not and cannot lead to the cross-border flow of "organizational capabilities."

Even though market opening and the development of information technology have led to the widespread dissemination of information about scientific and technological knowledge and management knowledge across national borders, the organizational capabilities to exploit this knowledge and information remain highly immobile.

The "stickiness" of organizational capabilities has profound significance for the national nature and national interests of industrial development.

Organizational capabilities, including technical capabilities, determine industrial competitiveness, which is measured by profitability.

Even if the industrial chain becomes more and more cross-border, organizational capabilities with national characteristics and country differences are still the key factors in determining income and profit distribution. That is, those who master core capabilities control the high end of the income and profit links. Therefore, from

There are country-by-country differences in the distribution of income from cross-border industrial chains (or value chains).

Therefore, just from the perspective of industrial competitiveness, globalization does not and cannot eliminate national interests: globalization can make rich countries richer, and it can also make poor countries poorer.

If developing countries want to change their disadvantaged position in the global income distribution structure, they must change their disadvantaged position in the world's technological and industrial structure. To achieve this goal, they can only rely on the development of local capabilities.

Organizational capabilities are the source of sustained competitive advantage for enterprises and a country's economy and the driving force for sustained economic expansion. They not only provide the source of power for enterprise growth, but also provide the growth impetus that leads to the rise and decline of the national economy in the competition among international industrial leaders.

When some people think that the cross-border flow of goods, services, capital and information under globalization can bring technology to backward countries, they are confusing the conditions and opportunities for developing technological capabilities with the development of technological capabilities itself.

Some people use hearsay concepts to oppose independent development without understanding: Since new technologies are available everywhere (despite the fact that China is still embargoed in some high-tech fields), then it can be achieved through "integrated innovation"

Or "open innovation" instead of independent development.

However, the prerequisite for technology integration is to have a product development platform.

Two basic characteristics of technological progress fundamentally determine the importance of product development for the development of technological capabilities: first, if technological progress can have an impact on economic development, it must take the form of products; second, as products become more and more complex,

So it is increasingly impossible for a single technology to define a product.

Therefore, whether it is "integrated innovation" or "open innovation", the key is to have product development capabilities.

Otherwise there is no way to select and integrate technologies, whether they are in-house or purchased.

The automotive industry analyzed in this report exemplifies why product development is a critical link in technology integration.

Cars integrate a large number of technologies (since the second industrial revolution), and related new technologies are still emerging (such as new material technology, advanced chassis system and its control technology, advanced transmission system and its control technology, diversified clean energy

, advanced energy-saving technology, lightweight technology, intelligent technology, etc.).

However, without product development (i.e. complete vehicle development), an automobile company cannot absorb, improve and apply these technologies, and technologies that cannot be converted into products have no economic significance for the company.

Product development is particularly important because it is the key link between technology and market.

Even under the conditions of globalization, the market maintains national and national characteristics. Therefore, without mastering product development capabilities, it is difficult to transform the market demand characteristics and understanding of these characteristics into product performance characteristics.