| Automobile industry is a pillar industry, which typically represents the industrialization level of a nation. It's also a capital-and-technology-intensive industry with obvious scale economy and closely related with other industries. Taking a broad view of the whole world, the international economic strengths seldom are not countries with strong automobile industries. Automobile industry is a pillar industry of Hubei Province. Hubei, as a traditional province of automobile industry, has shown some competitive advantages in its technology structure and product structure in domestic market after more than forty years' development. Hubei automobile industry has close relationship with relevant industries and it has a strategic position in the economic development of the whole province. But Hubei is not yet a strong province of automobile industry owing to its scattered industrial distribution and its poor scale economy, which greatly weaken the competitiveness of Hubei automobile industry.Since the industry competitiveness is comparative productivity in its essence, three levels of comparative analyses will be carried out about this research, that is, Hubei's automobile industry compared with Jilin's and Shanghai's from the level of industry, Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. compared with The FAW Group Corporation and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation from the level of company, and Hubei's automobile products compared with that of The FAW Group Corporation and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation from the level of products.This essay synthetically applies game theory, economics, statistics and management to the research, combining macroscopic analysis with microscopic analysis, Qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis and theoretic analysis with positive analysis. Based on the current situation of Hubei automobile industry, this research systematically analyzes the competitiveness conditions of Hubei automobile industry and the problems existing in the new environment of the automobile industry home and abroad by combining the industry circumstances, industrial distribution, product structure and industry organization and other characters together. By analyzing the different condition of automobile industry cluster, it's concluded that it's necessary to speed up the process of industry reorganization so as to raiseindustry concentration. Through horizontal comparison of top three automobile groups using Factor Analysis with the historical statistic data, the problems of Hubei automobile industry is also be disclosed. Through the analysis about the current development stage of automobile industry, it is pointed out that the key to raise the comprehensive competitiveness of Hubei automobile industry is to strengthen the ability of R&D and to create brand effect. Finally, the comprehensive appraisal index system of Hubei automobile industry competitiveness is constructed.The index system directs the development of automobile industry of Hubei province to increase its comprehensive competitiveness. |