Building Competitive Advantage of Locations for Automobile Industry: Changchun as the Example

Abstract

A location must establish its own competitive advantages to meet the demand of global economy age, therefore, first, this paper brings forward the definition of competitive advantage of locations. Second, China is changing from industrial society to knowledge society, so the competitive advantage of locations for Chinese industries have the cross-characteristics of the two societies, which is globally representative. On the base of the deep influences of Transnational Corporations on automobile industry, the paper analyzes the competitive advantage of locations for automobile industry and points out the index system of that. Finally, it takes Changchun, in which there is the largest automobile enterprise FAW (First Automobile Works) in China, as the example to give out the way how to establish competitive advantages of locations.