As a window for understanding the relationship between globalization and the state's
pursuit of national industrial development, this book examines how and why the Chinese
government succeeded in leveraging China's international competitive advantages to
modernize the country's automotive industry from 1978 to 2001.

The book is foremost a study of the decisions that high-level Chinese officials took
in figuring out how best to modernize an outdated passenger car industry. The emphasis
is on state policy and the power relations involving industrial planners in Beijing and
key Chinese auto enterprises, on the one side, and the major foreign automotive firms,
on the other. This accounts for the subtitle, The Party-State and Multinational
Corporations, in this study of China.s Automotive Modernization. The changes in the
Chinese automotive industry are used as the context to analyze China.s industrial
redevelopment and integration into the global economy.

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