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Designated by the National Development and Reform Commission, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers mapped out the program, said Zhang Zhengzhi, a researcher with the China Automotive Technology and Research Center.

China aims at forming a stable professional and scale auto parts and components matching system with a clear structure based on domestic and international markets by 2010 to bolster the automobile sector by becoming the backbone industry of the national economy and laying the foundation for making China the world's parts and components manufacturing base, according to the program.

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The full text is available in the December Issue of AutoChina.

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