Taiwanese Automotive Parts Suppliers in China

摘要

Bilateral policies and rising labour costs have driven the relocation of automotive parts production from Taiwan to China. Using a company-level survey of 72 Taiwanese automobile parts suppliers in 2004-05, this contribution identified significant levels of technology transfer from Taiwanese automobile parts suppliers to Chinese firms in China. The technical division of labour among Taiwanese supplier-linked Chinese automotive assemblers is that key advanced technology is drawn from Japan which is then fused with Taiwanese conventional body parts technology to meet Chinese and Taiwanese joint-venture assembly demands.