Can automatic transmissions get rid of the fate of relying on imports?

The automatic transmission has the advantages of driving comfort and reducing driver fatigue, and has become a development direction of modern car configuration. A car equipped with an automatic transmission can automatically change speed according to the road conditions, and the driver can concentrate on the road traffic without being disturbed by the shift.

The statistics of import and export provided by China Association of Automobile Manufacturers show that from January to June this year, China's transmission-based components of the automobile transmission system reached 4.692 billion U.S. dollars, compared with 4.087 billion U.S. dollars in the same period of last year, an increase of 14.80% year-on-year; export value It was US$1.144 billion, compared with US$910 million in the same period of last year, which was a year-on-year increase of 25.70%.

In 2010, China's transmission-based components of the transmission system reached 8.335 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 50% from the 5.556 billion U.S. dollars in 1999, and the export value was 1.966 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 59.48% from 1999.

From the data, it can be seen that in the past two years, the value of the components of transmission-based transmission components is greater than the value of exports, and the increase in exports is greater than the increase in imports.

The field of transmission in China is basically started in 2003 and 2004. In the past few years, the development of a truly systematic system has become very demanding for automatic transmissions and automatic transmissions. Suddenly everyone has discovered that the automatic transmission is the development of the Chinese automobile industry. The bottleneck. The industrialization of China's automatic transmission will take many years. If we do not accelerate the pace now, the Chinese auto industry will be subject to control.

In fact, the significance of core components for vehicle companies is particularly important. During the financial crisis, the issues exposed by GM, Ford, and Chrysler’s three major American auto companies were typical. General powertrain technology relies on Opel. Ford’s powertrain technology relies on Mazda. After the financial crisis, it has made strategic adjustments and reinvested in powertrains.

On the road to the development of automatic transmissions, Chinese OEMs are currently digesting their own things through commissioning, technology transfer, and transfer of intellectual property rights. This really requires a process. On the contrary, in the case of manual transmissions, China has already been in the stage of improving quality, and in recent years, the effect of development has been obvious, and the technology has matured.

At the 2011 China Automotive Industry Development (Telda) International Forum on September 2, the Sinopec Automotive Industry Technical Cooperation Center held a workshop on the development of vehicle transmission systems and vehicle oil technology. At the meeting, Xu Xiangyang, deputy secretary-general of the China Gear Professional Association and vice president of the Beihang Institute of Transportation Science and Engineering delivered a speech titled "Market Status and Development Trends of Vehicle Drive Systems." Xu Xiangyang stated that at present, China's automatic transmission market is in a stage of rapid development and the market demand is huge; independent enterprises in China have basically possessed prototype and sample parts manufacturing capabilities, but have not yet realized mass production; independent enterprises have basically formed AT, AMT, and CVT. The technical pattern of the various routes of the DCT and the DCT; the automatic transmission industry is being given an opportunity of historical development due to the high attention paid by the government and the industry; through technology introduction and international cooperation, China is mastering the core technology of automatic transmissions.

Xu Xiangyang made it clear that 2012 will be the most critical year for the Chinese automatic transmission industry and the first year for the autonomous automatic transmission to become industrialized.

Xiao Bian believes that the current import dependency of auto-transmissions is not light, China's auto parts exports are still concentrated in the low-end position of the multinational procurement chain, which to some extent constrained the development of the Chinese auto industry's internationalization. We hope that on the road to the development of automatic transmissions, we can walk steadily, faster, and better, get rid of import dependency, and realize the industrialization of automatic transmissions in China as soon as possible.