First half of 2011, China's auto market totaled 9.156 million and 9.3252 million sales, an increase of 2.48% and 3.35%. One passenger car sales 7,044,900 and 7,110,300, an increase of 5.36% and 5.75%. Increase over last year sales were down 46 and 45 percentage points.

    Industry believes that the first half of the automobile market and some slowdown in the automobile market is mainly about the cancellation of preferential policies, in addition, the Japanese earthquake and the purchase of individual cities, the first half and restricted the development of automobile market. March 11, 2011, a major earthquake in Japan, Japanese auto companies have been hit in the earthquake, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi and other car manufacturers have discontinued the situation there. The domestic Japanese joint venture Guangzhou Toyota-brand car companies, Guangzhou Honda, Dongfeng Nissan, also affected, in addition, the United States, German Department, brands and other car firms, many parts are imported from Japan, or more or less have also been affected. Sluggish Japanese auto market and a direct impact on the earthquake-related industries, which are pre-installed vehicle navigation market impact is quite obvious, the performance of the navigation map duopoly and therefore suffer.

    August 11, NavInfo released the first half of 2011 financial report, first half of 2011, car sales in China increased by 3.35% under the premise of NavInfo pre-installed car navigation business income fell 3.57%, can that is the first negative growth in 2011 full year growth rate was also up 114%, drop dramatically. In contrast, another well-known map provider, NASDAQ listed companies AutoNavi also popular impact. As the 311 Japanese and Japanese earthquake on the impact of other depot, direct impact of high German software pre-installed main customers, but still capable of maintaining high growth in Germany and software. August 17, AutoNavi announced second quarter financial report, second quarter of 2011 AutoNavi car navigation business, net income of approximately $ 22.9 million, an increase of only 37.3%, while last year's growth rate of 125.7% . Thus, by the sluggish market environment and the impact of the earthquake in Japan, the car navigation map provider business battering, NavInfo negative growth, high growth in Germany and software substantially narrowed.

    However, the Japanese earthquake not only hurt the NavInfo, also helped NavInfo, described as "cheng Xiao Xiao loser." Due to the Japanese cars, led by Toyota a few years ago China has significantly reduced the amount of pre-installed navigation assembly, coupled with the previous day's overall navigation system car assembly rate is still low, so the four-dimensional map of new models in the Japanese high-end navigation losses limited. In contrast is the use of Japanese suppliers of other depots has been a significant impact on navigation models, AutoNavi therefore suffered heavy losses. NavInfo is but a blessing in disguise, has been temporarily replaced by large orders of high German software revenue.

    Japanese car firms can be fully restored in 7 per month, sales have been improved. Second half of the Japanese car firms can recover if the first half of the loss of sales due to the earthquake in Japan, will allow the automobile to run the curve has been changed. Although the second half of the state subsidy policy related to the introduction of the automobile industry is unlikely, from the current situation, even without the introduction of relevant policies, but the second half of the car market will get better in the first half. Fig business performance improvement is also expected to result, out of the woods.