On September 18th, the Ministry of Communications, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Public Security and other 10 ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Transformation and Upgrading of the Automobile Maintenance Industry to Improve the Service Quality", clearly declaring that it is necessary to "break the monopoly of maintenance parts channels" and request that the vehicle enterprises start next year. Open vehicle maintenance technical information.
The "Opinions" require that from January 1, 2015, automobile manufacturers (including those that import automobile products from outside China to domestic sales) will be authorized to repair enterprises and independent operators without discrimination or delay when new vehicles are listed. Including independent maintenance enterprises, maintenance equipment manufacturing enterprises, maintenance technology information publishing units, maintenance technical training institutions, etc.) public vehicle maintenance technical information. In addition, before December 31 of next year, auto manufacturers must disclose all the vehicle maintenance technical information that has entered the "Vehicle Manufacturers and Products Announcement" domestic models and the CCC-certified domestic and imported models. If the company fails to effectively disclose the technical information of the model maintenance after the new model is launched for 3 months, the "Announcement" and 3C certification of the vehicle will be cancelled, that is, the model will not be allowed to continue to be sold.
The "Opinions" also said that the original parts manufacturing enterprises will be encouraged to provide original parts and independent after-sales parts with independent trademarks to the automobile aftermarket; allow authorized parts distribution enterprises and authorized maintenance enterprises to resell original parts.