By August 17th, the Ministry of Commerce and National Development and Reform Commission have approved the first group of bases and enterprises for auto and auto parts export, and announced to promote the expansion of auto and auto parts export to the greatest extent. Bo Xilai, minister of the Ministry of Commerce indicated that expanding the export of auto and auto parts, especially the complete vehicles of self-owned brands and those possessing independent intellectual property rights is the only way to improve the general level of Chinese auto industry and its competitiveness in global markets, and develop China into a great auto power from a big auto country.

160 auto enterprises which won the title of "National Auto and Auto Parts Export Base Enterprises" consist of 44 complete vehicle export enterprises including FAG, Geely, Chery, Dongfeng, and 116 other auto parts export enterprises including Wanxiang, Motorola Electronics. Among them there are 61 foreign-funded enterprises. In addition, 8 cities including Shanghai, Changchun, Tianjin, Wuhan, Chongqing, Xiamen, Wuhu and Taizhou have won the title of "National Auto and Auto Parts Export Base".

Bo Xilai expressed that Chinese government will standardize the auto products export market system fundamentally, make efforts to improve the external environment for auto exports, promote certification cooperation and mutual recognition of auto parts with major import countries, actively deal with trade conflicts that have arisen, and provide auto and auto parts enterprises with technical regulations and standards of import countries as well as other services free of charge.

According to the data of the Ministry of Commerce, China now has become the third largest auto consumption country and the fourth largest auto manufacturing country. Since 2000, Chinese auto and auto parts export has been increasing at the rate of 40% every year. Last year the export amount reached 10.9 billion US dollars increasing by 34% on a year-on-year basis.

The complete vehicle export is averagely increasing at the rate of up to 70% every year. Last year, 173 000 complete vehicles were exported, increasing by 120%, and it was the first time that 11 000 more vehicles were exported than imported. In the fist half year of this year, 34 500 saloon cars have been exported, surpassing the total export volume in the last year.

The auto export markets have covered 207 countries and regions, with developing countries such as Middle East, Latin America, Russia and new emerging markets mainly for complete vehicle export and developed countries for auto parts export.

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