汽车初级英语01-Introduction of Automobile Industry

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汽车初级英语01-Introduction of Automobile Industry
                            Introduction of Automobile Industry
  It is already over one hundred years since the first automobile was invented in the world. In 1886, Karl Benz from Germany designed and built the first machine driven by an internal combustion engine at Mannheim. From then on, the transportation on land shifted from the age of coaches to the age of automobiles.
  In the beginning, auto components were all made by hand. So, it was not easy to make a car. Then, Henry Ford standardized auto components. This laid the foundations for manufacturing autos on an assembly line. The industrialists from other countries like France, Britain and America immediately made great investments in auto design and production. Each auto manufacturer has tried to win the competition on the world markets and therefore never stopped making research for new models. Consequently, the world auto industry has been developed very fast.
  Germany was the birthplace, in 1886, of the automobile with Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler sharing the credit for their respective vehicles which appeared in that year. They established their own car companies which, in 1926, merged to form Daimler-Benz. Today this corporation enjoys an enviable reputation as the maker of Mercedes-Benz cars. Its undisputed German competitor is BMW(Babarian Motor Works), a firm with very different origins. BMW, formed in 1916, began by producing aero engines, and switched to motor cars in 1928.
  Across the Atlantic, the massive American market was dominated by the Big Three motor manufacturers. By the 1930s the Big Three were headed by American General Motors with its batch of makes which included the Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmoble and Cadillac names. Up until the 1920s Ford had been the market leader and also owned the prestigious Lincoln marque. Chrysler, the last of the Big Three to be established, had Plymouth as its high volume, low cost arm.
  The early 1950s witnessed some development of a motor industry in Japan. Before the war Japan’s car makers consisted, in essence, of Toyota an Nissan, which produced the Datsun. From 1960 the Nissan name appeared on some models sold on the home market. Those built for export were called Datsun, but this practice only lasted until 1983. Since then the company has only manufactured Nissan cars. With a great export drive first targeted at America and then Europe, Japan has emerged as the international community’s major manufacturing force. Not only are Japan’s products seen on almost every road on the globe, but its car makers have also taught the rest of the motoring world how to build its automobiles more cost-effectively.
  China was totally an agricultural country with almost no industries before liberation. It was not until the 1900s that the first automobiles were introduced to China. In 1913, the first highway in China was built between Changsha and Xiangtan and the year 1919 witnessed the official issue of the first driving licenses in China. Then, between the 1930s and the 1940s, the auto transportation was somewhat developed, but the vehicles driven then were all made in other developed countries. The auto industry in China did not start until the 1950s. In 1958, the No.1 Auto Plant was established in Changchun, and turned out the first batch of liberation automobiles for our country. After that, several other auto plants were set up one after another in Nanjjing, Beijing, Jinan an Sichuan. In the early 1980s, the No.2 Auto plant designed and equipped by ourselves was put into massive production. In the late 1980s and the late 1990s, the Shanghai Auto Industry Corporation established joint venture with German Volkswagen and American General Motors, marking a new stage in the development of auto industry in China.

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