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A video went viral online today, with a team chanting "support domestic products" promoting it at a local auto show, calling on consumers to buy domestic products.

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During the auto show parade, my aunt gave a "contagious" speech, criticizing consumers for buying foreign-brand cars and calling for support for domestic products.

"Let's take a look and see which of the cars here are made in China and which are Chinese red flag cars and domestic cars."

Standing next to the domestic brand new car, the aunt said, "this is our Chinese product, our Chinese brand car."

"if we don't buy foreign cars for a year and a half,."

Many netizens think that this kind of propaganda is not desirable and should not be blind. One netizen said: the market economy can buy whatever it likes. Another netizen said, "should we boycott, or should we strengthen ourselves?"

In fact, independent car brands have made great progress in the process of rapid development in the past 20 years, and a number of car companies have risen and entered the international field of vision. Independent brands strive to get rid of the "cheap car" label, and are also building their own core competitiveness. at the same time, after several rounds of market washing, independent car companies also pay more and more attention to the establishment of brands. One is to "change lanes and run first" through intelligence, electrification and technology configuration, and on the other hand to launch its high-end brands to compete with foreign brands. Generally speaking, autonomous cars have developed in the direction of high quality after the stage of rapid popularization of the market.

However, some people in the industry have pointed out that many domestic cars use foreign auto parts, and it is much more important to learn to catch up than to resist blindly in the field that has not caught up with foreign countries.

On June 3, 2019, Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., Ltd., Changan Auchan Automobile issued a statement, which focuses on the gap between the technological level of autonomous cars and foreign countries. Changan Auchan said, "it is undeniable that independent brands have been rapidly catching up with or even surpassing their international competitors in terms of vehicle research and development and manufacturing level, but there is still a gap between the technology of core components and that of international auto powers." Changan Auchan also said that 90 per cent of auto automatic transmission transmissions are imported; 93 per cent of dedicated chains for CVT are imported; 94 per cent of braking devices are imported; and more than 95 per cent of manufacturing and testing equipment on the finishing production line for key automotive parts are imported. Although we are a big automobile country, there are many challenges, such as large but not strong, core technology is not leading enough, product homogenization and so on, so we have a long way to go.

Nowadays, more and more consumers choose home-made cars. In terms of sales volume, the market share of autonomous cars is not low, but it is also declining due to the cold winter of the car market and continued competition from foreign brands.

According to data from the China Automobile Association, from January to September 2019, a total of 5.903 million Chinese brand passenger cars were sold, down 18.5% from the same period last year, accounting for 38.7% of the total passenger vehicle sales and 3.3% lower than the same period last year. Among them: 1.461 million Chinese brand cars, down 15.2% from the same period last year, accounting for 19.7% of the total car sales, down 0.7% from the same period last year The sales of the Chinese brand SUV were 3.422 million, down 18.9% from the same period last year, accounting for 52.2% of the total SUV sales, down 6.2% from the same period last year. The sales of the Chinese brand MPV were 733000, down 23.9% from the same period last year, accounting for 74.7% of the total MPV sales, down 1.8% from the same period last year.

Finally, Li Shufu's views on the development of autonomous cars are attached. Li Shufu, chairman of Geely holding Group, said that the greatest feature of the automobile industry is open innovation, win-win cooperation, open competition, free cooperation, extensive exchanges and effective coordination, rather than working behind closed doors and fighting alone. He believes that the only way for China's autonomous cars to lose part of their market share is for all Chinese own-brand car companies to work together instead of complaining, because this is the result of fair competition, and this share is determined by the market. it is determined by the user, not by administrative orders.

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