After the earthquake in Japan caused the local automobile industry suffered heavy losses, the production of spare parts shortages also made Japanese car firms miserable. Recovery in the automotive industry in the context of long chain, Japanese parts companies overseas chain to accelerate the transfer.

    Have been accustomed to the "eggs in one basket," the Japanese car prices, had to close purchase and began to reflect on the concept of zero inventory production. Earlier, the Japanese auto manufacturers and parts suppliers are generally closed to the supply relationship, or having signed long-term exclusive supply agreement, so once emergencies, Japanese car firms designated supplier production disruptions, temporary not easy replacement of other suppliers, thereby to increase the difficulty of restoring production.

    In fact, the shortage of parts production to combat the Japanese auto market, or large, the Japanese Finance Ministry on May 25 announced in April trade statistics show that auto exports dropped 67% year on year, to 255.3 billion yen, a record 1979 at least on record since January.

    The earthquake in Japan, conduction effects also affected the global strategy of Japanese cars, especially in the world's largest auto market - China, half or even stop production, new product launch delay and other effects, for the recovery effort just interested in China to show its mettle in the Japanese car firms, the feel of "delay the future development" means.

    Toyota to because the big earthquake, a joint venture factory in China is not only half, the third generation Prius domestic timetable delays. Although the production of Nissan be less affected, but the earthquake has not yet been completely eliminated, the new Nissan Tiida is the listing will have a hard car supply, and can only continue to support older Tiida market.

    Relocation of the industrial chain, which is the solution everyone can think of closed Japanese procurement system approach. But the problem is in urgent need of this part of the Japanese parts of the country completely in joint ventures such as rice on the state of production and sales to fall is inevitable, but a reflection of Japanese joint-venture brands rely on the seriousness of the Japanese parts system.

    We can not say Japan is too closed, the earthquake has aggravated the feelings of the sea urgent parts enterprises. In the automobile industry chain in a marginal position in the Japanese small and medium sized auto parts enterprises, have begun leveraging the emerging parts of Jiangsu Danyang industrial base, setting off a tide of new industrial chain transfer.

    Although large-scale Japanese companies moving into parts of China, to enhance the level of manufacturing in China will certainly help, but the core component of the Japanese car firms are clustered in the Japanese production, which is eager to upgrade the auto industry in terms of Chinese companies is still difficult learn the core technology of its global production system.

    It is said that China has started a joint venture plans to limit the proportion of parts, and encourage and guide the domestic auto industry to speed up access to key parts of new areas of energy vehicles to avoid the foreign monopoly on the core technology. Therefore, the relocation of parts enterprises in Japan, the Chinese auto companies have to seize on the opportunity to strengthen the core components, rather than other cross-border transfer of car prices, this result is the most to the force.