In addition, the TU Robbie Spain, the United States Lear and other companies are in the first quarter of this year with the relevant Chinese enterprises to set up a joint venture. Statistics show that the first quarter of this year foreign parts production enterprises, in addition to individual items such as the production of core components of the automatic transmission Honda gearbox factory in Foshan still insisted on wholly foreign-owned, most of the projects selected the joint venture.

Coincidentally, one from the foreign holding, production of the world's most advanced gasoline engine factories, are brewing over shares will be adjusted to 50 to 50, by the joint venture car plant management.

Observers believe that two years of business practice let a number of international enterprises understand the need for joint venture with the local community partners. In March, the United States Eaton Corporation and the Central China University of Science and Technology signed an agreement to jointly research and development of electrical, auto mechanics, and other technology. International parts enterprises in research and development needed to find local partners, this incident seems to prove the observers point of view.

Build R & D Centers
Following established a 50,000 square meters R & D center in 2005 in Anting, Shanghai, Delphi Pike Electric System Co., Ltd. Invested 4 million U.S. dollars at the beginning of this year for the construction of Anting electric testing laboratory, testing and evaluating parts and components performance, detecting products performance in physical performance and environmental impact. The company said that in the meantime, to carry out similar tests need to test products to North America Center, long time, the high cost, now, the R & D center in Anting and North America have a testing centre comparable to the R & D capabilities.

The same R & D Center in Anting was German Schaeffler Group. Group president and CEO of Gail Synge said that the local R & D center will provide technical expertise and to promote Asia and the rest of the world technology center in bilateral exchanges.

In addition, to promote its emission control system and suspension systems, and reduce product development and testing time, reduce costs, the U.S. Company Tenneco will also be R & D Center in Shanghai. It is reported that this is Tenneco's first research and development in Asia base. BorgWarner also established a research and development center in Ningbo.

The industry believes that, in the face of China's rapidly growing automotive markets, international auto parts giants are in a rapid and progressive approach to advance its own strategic vision, and that is: the breakdown of localization has been to consolidate operations The absolute competitive edge, including vehicle prices are lowered in the circumstances, for different vehicle parts and components manufacturers to provide more products, such as technical programs. These programs and implementation of the proposal basically rely on their own R & D center.