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07-08-2007
Experts
attending a forum said China''s booming automotive
industry needs more talents to support its rapid
development.
As
the country''s auto industry expanded quickly
in recent years, all sectors of the industry
were short of talents, said Zhang Xiaoyu with
the China Machinery Industry Federation, at
the forum held in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.
Toshiaki
Otami, general manager of the Dongfeng Nissan
Passenger Vehicle Company, said the company
has more than 7,000 employees at present, almost
doubling the number of 3,800 four year ago when
it was founded, and it is still in need of a
lot more talents.
There
was a great gap between the demand and supply
of auto talents as there were only 6,000 to
7,000 graduates from relevant colleges each
year, while a large automaker abroad usually
needs at least 7,000 people to build an independent
product development system, said Yu Zhuoping,
a professor of the automotive college of Shanghai-based
Tongji University.
A
research report predicts that the number of
workers in China''s auto industry will grow
by ten percent every year on average to hit
3.57 million in 2010 and 7.76 million in 2020.
China''s
automotive sales reached seven million units
in 2006, and is predicted to exceed 10 million
units in 2010 and overtake the United State
to become the largest auto market in the world
in 2016.
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