Recently, the industry and established the Ministry of Information (hereinafter referred to the Department of the letter) is actively seeking to promote SME development approach, the automotive industry SME locked in auto parts SMEs.

Close to the letter of the authority, told reporters, "on the auto parts industry to promote innovation and development of SMEs in the planning guidance" are brewing, the auto parts industry to guide SMEs to promote innovation and development of the "three-year plan for" active discussion Way.

According to the plan, innovation and development in key areas and priority projects will become the focus of the next three years, each of which corresponds to the project advantage of an enterprise. China Association of Automobile Manufacturers parts experts said that China's auto parts nearly three years of the key priorities including some engine technology, automatic transmission, anti-lock braking system, air bags, trucks with disc brake and so on.

Close to the letter the Department of the person concerned that the specific development proposals, including the method, relying on existing resources, focusing on the establishment of three auto parts innovation and development of demonstration bases for SMEs to explore regional technological innovation service system building development. For example, in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and the Bohai Rim region, respectively, have formed the basis of local resources and advantages of the value chain, each of the establishment of a well-targeted auto parts SME technological innovation platform for innovative services.

Automotive components for the status of SMEs, relevant agencies initially identified priority projects are: First, to break bottleneck, improve the auto parts industry sustainable development capacity. The second is to understand and support key technologies and common technologies to enhance the core competitiveness of the industry. The third is to solve the country on SME innovation and development of relevant policies and the promotion of automotive components between the effective development of the industry docking, the maximum for SMEs in China as a whole to play the important role of the automobile industry.

According to the plan, from now to 2012, guiding the promotion of automotive components industry innovation and development of SMEs in the overall objectives are: auto parts SMEs generally enhance the awareness of independent innovation, key enterprises, comprehensively enhance the ability of independent innovation, enterprise size and the development of qualified personnel Enhance the quality of synchronization, conditional enterprises basically completed the construction of information, made a number of advanced level, to meet the domestic vehicle matching the needs of industry, with independent intellectual property rights of key automotive components and automotive electronics achievements in technological innovation, explore a In line with China's national conditions and adapt to changes in domestic and international market needs of the automotive industry SME development.

Since reform and opening up, especially after the accession to the WTO, China's auto parts industry by faster development of SMEs. Accession to the WTO before 2001, the auto parts industries and enterprises engineering and technical personnel for the number of 64,000 people, or the number of practitioners of the industry total of 10.6 percent, to 2006, the number of engineering and technical personnel medium-sized enterprises soared to 92,000, accounting for the The total number of business enterprises the ratio increased to 11.6 percent over the same period, parts and components for research and development investment increased to 1.55 billion yuan from 7.67 billion yuan.

However, China's auto parts industry SME development and technological innovation there are also many problems. China Automobile Industry Association, told reporters experts, the most prominent problem is that although innovative investment continued to increase, but is still too low, the personnel structure and levels are not high. In accordance with international practice, enterprises, technology R & D investment ratio of sales of at least 5 per cent. China's auto parts enterprises from the R & D investment ratio, despite five years ago from the 2 percent to the current 3%, but there is still a distance than in developed countries.

Other problems also include the expansion of the scope of innovation activities, but the sustainability of innovation is not strong, fixed a general lack of technological innovation and R & D institutions; have a weak awareness of intellectual property rights, the lack of its own intellectual property rights in particular the core technology.