Foreign direct investment as a vehicle for deploying cleaner technologies : technology transfer and the big three automakers in China
The number of cars on the road in China is expected to double every six years at current growth rates. Currently, there are no Chinese fuel-efficiency standards for automobiles, and pollution-control standards are weak. China is already a net importer of oil, and will be an increasingly large source of demand for world oil supplies as the number of automobiles in China increases. Motor vehicles are also now the leading source of urban air pollution in China. The Chinese government has indicated that it wants to avoid a heavy dependence on foreign oil and prevent the worsening of air pollution, but China's domestic technological capacity for clean automobile production is almost entirely dependent on foreign technology transfer. The U.S. Big Three automakers have all formed joint ventures in China and are in the process of transferring technology to their Chinese partners
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2003
2003