Shi Jianhua: Car Restrictions on Deprivation of Civil Rights

At the press conference held in the first half of the China Automobile Association’s production and sales in the first half of this year, the China Auto Industry Association stated that there were potential purchases in eight cities including Tianjin, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Shijiazhuang, Chongqing, Qingdao, and Wuhan, and expressed their opposition to this. Once this news came out, it immediately triggered widespread concern in the automotive industry and consumers. Although Shenzhen, Hangzhou and other cities have successively rumored that they will not implement purchase restrictions, discussions on the impact of motor vehicle purchase restrictions on the domestic auto industry have already begun. On July 19, when Jian Jianhua, deputy secretary-general of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, was interviewed by a video interview with China Automotive News on the China New Network, he reiterated his doubts about the purchase restriction measures of cars and criticized this behavior as a manifestation of the “lazy government” of the ruling party.

If the car is the main source of pollution in the city, why is it not restricted?

The reasons for the restrictions on purchases in many cities today are mainly concentrated on the prevention of pollution and pollution control. In fact, there are indeed more and more cities in the country with serious pollution, road congestion, and other current conditions. Is it reasonable to restrict purchases based on such reasons? Shi Jianhua said that after some experts' testing and analysis, in fact, car pollution is not the main source of pollution in the city. It is only one of them, and the proportion is not the largest.

Shi Jianhua said that there are pollution problems in many cities, including Beijing and Guangzhou. The auto industry has a responsibility to reduce environmental pollution and contribute to improving the environment. The auto industry has also been working hard, but the automobile is not a city pollution. The main source of the problem is that some city administrators use cars as a lazy behavior.

Shi Jianhua said: "The managers in the city to attract investment, expansion of a variety of large companies, including automobile production companies, that will cause what kind of pollution? Why do not limit? I think this does not show the main problems of contradiction."

Restrictions on the purchase of helpless administrators to control the "lazy government" performance

Previously, the China Automobile Association had expressed its view that the automobile purchase restriction policy was inconsistent with the country’s overall goal of expanding consumption and stabilizing development, depriving the general public of equal rights to purchase private cars, and seriously affecting the development of the auto industry. And the role of governance for traffic congestion is very limited and it is not conducive to energy conservation and emission reduction. Shi Jianhua reiterated this view. He believes that purchase restrictions are measures that some local governments adopt to ease traffic problems or reduce environmental pollution. They are the easiest and easiest to exercise, but the effect is not obvious. The bigger role is not to solve the problem in real terms, but it seems to be a kind of work. attitude.

Shi Jianhua believes that the main cause of urban traffic congestion is first of all because the urban planning is not perfect and the design is not scientific enough. At the same time, traffic management is not optimized enough, and the construction of road facilities is not smooth enough. Congestion is more than just a lot of cars. Consideration should be given to the effectiveness of the traffic design and the path, and the problem cannot be solved simply by limiting the purchase of such aspects.

Shi Jianhua said that from the current situation in Beijing, it can be seen that the restriction of purchase has not improved the traffic situation. The result of the restriction is that many citizens lose their cars of consumption and lose the right to use modern and civilized means of transportation. This is equivalent to the deprivation of their civil rights. At the same time, the result of restrictions on purchases also makes the ruling party in a state of “laziness”, relying solely on restrictions on purchases or traffic restrictions to ease congestion, rather than fundamentally improving the deeper and fundamental problems of the city.

Shi Jianhua said that many large cities in foreign countries have more cars than China, but traffic jams are lighter than in China. Metropolitan cities such as Paris have almost no blocking or blocking. This is because of their roads. The facilities were designed to be very reasonable, including signal settings, road setting, and a very smooth natural flow state, but basically no police to schedule.

Shi Jianhua believes that the management methods of these cities are very scientific, and public transportation such as subways is also more developed. In order to improve pollution and congested environment, China should give priority to the development of public transportation systems and new energy-saving vehicles.

Purchases lead to consumption upgrades

Prior to this, the China Automobile Association had proposed that once the restrictions on purchase were widely implemented throughout the country, the most affected would be China's own-brand car companies. According to this, Shi Jianhua explained that the restriction of purchases has caused people to have a mentality of comparison, and it is hard to shake up to a number. It is necessary to buy a larger displacement and better car. This leads to changes in the automobile industry structure, and the development of independent brands will naturally be affected.

Shi Jianhua said that the result of the purchase restriction is that the people originally wanted to buy a suitable first cost-effective one, and then improve it in the future. As a result, because he had this opportunity, he would think of it in one step. As a result of this, consumption will be upgraded and independent brands will be greatly affected.

Shi Jianhua admits that this shows that the competitiveness of China's self-owned brand cars and its strength is still not enough, this from the latest "Fortune" Global 500 among only a privately-owned brand car company in Geely can be seen short-listed. This shows that the competition between Chinese brand cars in the future and the automobile groups of international big groups is still very fierce. If China’s own consumption environment and market environment are not conducive to the development of independent brands, it will increase the difficulty of its competition and it will have to pay more when participating in competition. The big cost, in retrospect, must invest a lot of effort in R&D to improve and enhance the quality of the brand before it can stand firm.

Shi Jianhua said that under this premise, any country will give some tilt and support to its own products. Since China has joined the WTO, it is impossible to formulate some hard rules to limit who, but China's social environment, social sales culture, and government-oriented, more or less should still have some support for Chinese independent brands. He said that in the past year, leading cadres have reached a certain level of consensus on taking domestic cars. This is the greatest support for China's own brands. This kind of support can't be measured by numbers. What standards it uses are reflected in its guiding role. It is of constructive significance to the development of independent brands.