The 2011 China Auto Industry Development (TEDA) International Forum was recently held in Tianjin. Different from last year's annual theme of "transformation and upgrading of China's automobile industry", which focuses on industrial development only, this forum's annual theme is "automobile society and industrial future", with a higher and broader vision. The focus has shifted away from the automobile industry and started to focus on the big topic of automobile society.

According to the reporter, this clear signal indicates that China's automobile industry has realized that the arrival of the automobile society is unstoppable, and the lack of preparation of all parties in the process of entering the automobile society has become an important factor restricting the development of the industry. Dialectically, a harmonious automobile society can breed a healthy automobile industry; A healthy automobile industry will promote the harmony of the automobile society. Whether we can do a good job in "top-level design" at the level of the automobile society is related to the development of China's automobile industry in the next step.

The narrow sense of automobile society is an imported concept. Zhao Hang, director of the China Automotive Technology Research Center, said that according to foreign standards, 20 cars per 100 households reached the minimum of the "automobile society". The reporter believes that the automobile society has a broader meaning. In a broad sense, the automobile society means that with the development of the times, the automobile in China is not just a means of transportation for people as it was more than a decade ago.

People's understanding of automobiles is no longer limited to the industrial perspective of economics. As cars have entered the homes of ordinary people, the automobile society has its own "social molecular basis", and its main body has also changed from the past public cars to the present private cars. The tentacles and influence of cars have radiated to various social fields such as culture, law, morality, environment, transportation, and family.