What historical changes are the current development of the automobile industry undergoing?

At present, the development environment of automobile industry has undergone historic changes. Next, this paper analyzes the changes of the macro-environment of the industry from four aspects: politics, economy, society and technology.

(1) Political aspects. Internationally, black swan events frequently occur, geopolitical thinking is on the rise, and developed countries have introduced strategies such as "re-industrialization" to attract industries and capital to return, which has produced a certain degree of anti-globalization trend, affected the internationalization process of China's automobile industry, accelerated the reconstruction of China's automobile industry chain, and increased the pressure of strengthening and supplementing the chain. Domestically, the macro-policy is relatively stable, the reform of decentralization, strengthening supervision and improving service and high-level opening-up are deepening, the market-oriented reform and optimizing the business environment are constantly releasing the vitality of enterprises, and the management policy of the automobile industry has shifted from protection and support to fairness, openness, competition and innovation.

(2) Economic aspects. China's economy is in a critical period of changing its development mode, optimizing its economic structure and transforming its growth momentum. There is a strong correlation between automobile industry and macro-economy, and the structure of automobile industry needs to be upgraded urgently. The per capita income level of China residents has been continuously improved for many years, and their consumption ability and willingness have been continuously enhanced. In 20 19, the total retail sales of social consumer goods increased by 8.0% compared with the previous year, and the retail sales of social consumer goods except automobiles increased by 9.0%. Automobile consumption has dragged down zero social growth for three consecutive years. The reason is that high housing prices and rigid expenditures push up the leverage ratio of residents, which has a great impact on automobile consumption as a bulk consumer product.

(3) Social aspects. The continuous decline of fertility rate and the extension of average life expectancy have led to the slow growth of China's total population, and the aging trend of population structure is obvious, which urgently requires the change from demographic dividend to talent dividend. Consumer demand, structure and mode have changed to personalized consumption, service consumption and online and offline integration. After 1995, automobile consumption paid more attention to experience, personalization and intelligence. In addition, the government attaches great importance to energy conservation and emission reduction, promotes the continuous upgrading of emission standards, and vigorously supports the development of new energy vehicles. Green manufacturing, green transportation and car enjoyment are also affecting the shaping of the new ecology of the automobile industry.

(4) technical aspects. Information and communication technology represented by 5G, artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing is the core force of the new generation of scientific and technological revolution. The cross-border integration of automobile industry and information and communication industry has been accelerated, and the whole process of R&D, manufacturing, products, sales and service of automobile industry has been fully penetrated, which has promoted the "overall promotion" and "shift of focus" of the value chain of automobile industry. The acceleration of the new four modernizations revolution of "electrification, intelligence, networking and sharing" will bring fundamental changes to the automobile industry.

To sum up, the development prospect of China automobile industry is full of challenges and opportunities.