Location Selection Study On Casting Auto Part Manufacturing Base Of H Company

H Auto Parts Manufacturing Co Ltd (hereinafter refer to as H Company) is a wholly foreign owned company in China. The main business of H Company includes manufacture, sale and service of aluminum and magnesium casting auto parts, and it has been supplying light-weight auto parts to many international auto makers. H Company decided to establish its7th wholly-owned subsidiary worldwide in China at early2011, in order to facilitate the large auto markets with respect to both manufacture and sales in China. H Company immediately started location selection after the decision.This thesis is drafted based on the real circumstance and requirement of the investment project of H Company, and carries out detailed comparative studies on location selection of H Company project by using centroid method and relational matrix method to overall evaluate the four candidate cities-Shenyang of Liaoning province, Tianjin, Jinan and Zibo of Shandong province, with comprehensive considerations of key influencing factors of location selection, including natural conditions, market demand, cost, investment policy, industrial cluster, power supply, and etc. Then, this thesis comes to an optimal solution, and followed by summary to the whole decision making process.