Three key points to enhance the core technology of automotive components

At present, the average R&D investment of China's spare parts enterprises accounts for only 1.4% of sales revenue, far below the international average of 6.6%. In developed countries, the investment in parts and components is usually larger than the investment in whole vehicles. The investment ratio of complete vehicles and parts and components should be 1:1.3 to 1:2. At present, China's investment is only 1:0.3, which is far from enough. From the perspective of enterprises, the R&D expenditure for core component technologies is also very small. Surveys show that at present, China's entire vehicle companies invest less than 1% in spare parts. The madness of Chinese auto companies continues. Digging talented people to dig talents, buy technology to buy technology, all of a sudden smoke. When this former car giant stepped down the altar, it more or less brought some opportunities to Chinese auto companies that urgently needed to develop their own brand businesses.

Talent cultivation is a long way

The lack of core technology is the bottleneck that restricts the development of China's auto parts industry. China's automobile industry is still a very young industry, and it cannot be compared with the automotive industry in the western developed countries. Without a century-old store, companies that have been in business for more than 50 years are still only single digits. The parts and components companies are younger, and most of them are still “tough boys” in their teens and 20s. They do not have rich experience and profound accumulation.

At present, the technical personnel and management personnel of China's auto companies are in short supply, and the situation of “digging the Western Wall to fill the Western Wall” often appears, and there is a shortage of excellent personnel who can meet the needs of industrial development. Therefore, talent cultivation is extremely urgent. "China's auto science and technology talents are extremely short and the training system is not perfect. The loss of technical talents for parts and components companies is serious. Most highly qualified personnel in the industry are in foreign-funded enterprises," said Dong Jianping, deputy secretary-general of the China Automobile Industry Association.

This is not the most important thing. The more critical thing is that the gradient construction of China's auto talent is extremely lacking, and “green and yellow are not connected.” Older autos have less experience, and new-generation autos have more people than practice. The phenomena of production, education, and research are still present in each other, there is no close relationship between them, and the demand is asymmetric. The professional talents cultivated in colleges and universities are seriously out of line with the theory and practice of the company.

To really solve the problem of upgrading core technologies, “taking in” can not save China’s automobile industry. It must go through our own talent training, and on the basis of introduction, we must digest, absorb, and innovate so as to achieve improvement and surpass.

Independent research and development are essential

When we used the market for technology, the result was that the market was lost, technology was not exchanged, and it ended in complete failure. Now it has become popular to acquire the “acquisitionism” of overseas acquisitions. It has indeed played a certain role, but breakthroughs in core technologies still have little effect.

In order to achieve breakthroughs in core technologies, we must increase investment in R&D and increase our research and development capabilities. Regrettably, in China’s auto and parts companies, most of the leaders of state-owned enterprises have been desperately trying to save their capital by raising corporate profits during their “head”. The leaders of the state-owned enterprises are often tempted to look at them. Similarly, those private enterprises that have emerged like bamboo shoots after the rain are more than a matter of priority. Imagine, in this situation, who would like to achieve long-term development of the enterprise through increased R&D, but lost short-term corporate profits?

Without sufficient R&D investment, it is difficult for companies to cultivate strong R&D capabilities. To improve the core technology of China's auto parts, an important aspect must first increase the investment in R&D. With the guarantee of R&D investment, only the research and development capabilities will be improved. The two are complementary. The so-called "one-point pay, one-point harvest" is right.

Policy support is imminent

Parts and components are the basis of the automotive industry. Products and technologies directly constrain the development of the vehicle. However, in China, for a long period of time, due to the industry's overall eagerness for quick success and instant benefit, the situation of “retrofitting of light vehicle parts and components” has existed for a long time, so that most of the parts and components companies are driven entirely by the needs of vehicle companies driven by profits. To manufacture, most of the independent parts and components companies still stay in the processing and sample mapping stage. In the face of high demand for new models, new varieties, and new technologies, the auto parts companies can only deal with the high demand. The R&D task has no time to take into consideration its own basic R&D level and supporting capabilities.