Chen Guangzu: To visit auto show has become

　　For a man, who is nearly 70 years old, 20 years are neither long nor short. This period of time may leave incredible experiences, and also could be a drop in the ocean for his lifetime memories.

　　This year is the 20th anniversary of Beijing Auto Show. These 20 years have left Chen Guangzu very profound impressions. As the first generation of automobile professionals, senior expert of auto industry, Chen Guangzu has not only participated personally every term of Beijing Auto Shows in these 20 years, but also feels proud of the changes, which have happened in Beijing Auto Show during these years. “It can be said now that Beijing Auto Show has already become a culture, just like people see Spring Festival Gala Evening when Spring Festival comes.”

　　Year 2000 is the watershed of Beijing Auto Show

　　The 20 years of Beijing Auto Show has developed side by side with Chinese vehicle industry. With the development of the Chinese auto industry from scratch, from small to large, in these 20 years, Beijing Auto Show has also changed tremendous.

　　Chen Guangzu divides this period of history into two stages, and the dividing line is year 2000.

　　“Beijing Auto Shows in the early 1990s not only presented the achievements of Chinese automobile industry, but also had the character to attract in the investors.” Chen Guangzu recalled. At that time, China’s automotive industry just opened up, and was allowed foreign corporations to enter China for joint ventures. Therefore, many foreign vehicle enterprises hoped through Beijing Auto Show to bring their own car models and technologies in order to show the relevant leaders in charge of automobile branch in the interest of striving for partners. “The leaders in those days took it very seriously. National leaders visited almost every Beijing Auto Show”.

　　However as time went by, auto show has changed gradually. Leaders don’t come any more, more common people visit the show. There are less presentations of professional display, more dazzling performances.

　　“After 2000, everything is different. Basically foreign well-known corporations have already entered the Chinese market. As a result, auto shows have been used more to explore market. A lot of vehicle models, which are brought by car companies for the auto show, will be coming in soon, in order to fight for more consumers.” Chen Guangzu said.

　　Most impressed is 1994 year c

　　In Chen Guangzu’s eye, today’s Beijing Auto Show has already the ability to rival with Detroit auto show, Paris auto show and other world-class auto shows. But the most impressive memory for Chen Guangzu is the third Beijing International Auto Show in 1994. At that auto show, there were not only exhibitions, but also a theme-based workshop to enhance the development and research for automotive quality

　　“That workshop was very profound. It was mainly discussed, which kind of the road the development and research of automobile products should take. Not only a lot of vehicle companies participated, but also many software companies came, such as IBM, Motorola and so on”. After this workshop, it was established that Chinese auto’s development and research would start from the path of computer modeling. “This was a great impetus for the development of China’s automobile industry”.

　　It started at that time too, that almost each auto show would hold few theme forums, in order to discuss about the hot topics in the automobile industry that year. But the level of the discussion has never reached the depth of that time. Chen Guangzu told Sohu Auto:”There are also a lot of seminars now. But they sometimes make people feel that the seminars are just for show”.

　　This year’s Auto Show see Toyota

　　For the upcoming Beijing Auto Show in 2010, Chen Guangzu believes: "The attitude and performance towards the auto show deserve our attention. In general, Toyota is still world-class corporation, which still have a lots of thing for us to learn."

　　At the mean time, Chen Guangzu thinks: "The scale of the participation of Indian automobile enterprises might be expanded. The BRICs, including Brazil, Russia have all the potentials of development".

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　　(Jianfei Keke)