Gasgoo.com (Shanghai August 11) - Following the rapid growth of the Chinese automobile export market, quality and safety questions regarding domestically manufactured vehicles are gaining more and more attention. In order to help shed light on these issues, manufacturers have begun collecting opinions, with the first official credit report on Chinese vehicles, headed by the Ministry of Commerce's Department of Market Supervision and State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, having just concluded yesterday, stcn.com reported today.
The report, the first of its kind, collected opinions directed towards many aspects of Chinese automobile exports, including quality management and level of globalization. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) hopes to apply the report to evaluate other domestically manufactured vehicles, motorcycles and auto parts. Shi Jianhua, assistant secretary of the CAAM, believes that due to lack of time and other problems the Chinese industry is still in the early phases of internationalization. Mr. Shi believes that the industry has to take many steps to solve these problems, such as increasing brand awareness, investing more funds, improving the level of management and applying proper risk management.
Chinese manufacturers exported a total of 73,300 vehicles in July, a fall of 12.73 percent from the previous month but still over 57 percent higher than last July. A total of 454,400 vehicles have been exported since the beginning of the year.
