• DocumentCode
    2822580
  • Title

    Location Advantages and Strategy Selection of Changsha Auto Industry

  • Author

    Ding, Qilin ; Liu, Zuoxiang

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Changsha Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Changsha, China
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    24-26 April 2009
  • Firstpage
    522
  • Lastpage
    525
  • Abstract
    Cheaper land, cheaper labor, cheaper capital and convenient mass transportation are determinants of auto industrial location in a completely competitive market. Empirically, Changsha, a city locating in the centre of south China and crossing two main transportation corridors, possesses the location advantages, namely possesses the comparative low cost to develop auto industry. Spatial location of Chinese motor industry is experiencing a dynamic evolution process which depends on the structural change in factor endowments as well as the strong growth of demand for automobiles. This trend brings a chance to Changsha to produce and market Complete Vehicles. According to the trend of nowadays automobile market, exclusive and rather exclusive motors are precedence for Changsha´s auto industry.
  • Keywords
    automobile industry; facility location; transportation; Changsha; Chinese motor industry; auto industrial location; auto industry; automobiles; dynamic evolution process; location advantages; location theory; mass transportation; strategy selection; transportation corridors; Automobiles; Cities and towns; Computer industry; Conference management; Cost function; Humans; Industrial economics; Marketing and sales; Production; Transportation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Sciences and Optimization, 2009. CSO 2009. International Joint Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Sanya, Hainan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3605-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSO.2009.176
  • Filename
    5194007