Measurement of the automobile industrial security degree in China

Over the years, Chinese automobile industry has made lots of achievements and has become the largest auto producer and consumer markets in the world. In order to know the domestic survival environment and international competitiveness of China´s auto industry, this article built an industrial safety index system of the automobile industry, which is composed of 4 first-grade indexes and 15 second-grade indexes. Then adopting the annual data from year 1995 to year 2008 and the monthly data from January 2008 to June 2009, the article analyzed the industrial security of automobile from four aspects: the domestic survival environment, the international competitiveness, the industrial degree of external dependence and the controlling force. The results show that the automobile industry of China was in the condition of unsafe between 1995 and 2004 while the total condition improved to basic safe from 2005 to 2008, but some important indicators have several significant potential security threats.