{"id":117711,"date":"2025-10-12T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117711\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:06:10","slug":"chinas-car-dealers-feel-life-threatening-squeeze-from-price-war-e-commerce-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117711\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s car dealers feel life-threatening squeeze from price war, e-commerce rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese car dealers<\/a>, once the beneficiaries of the country\u2019s booming automotive market, are facing a bleak future as they fall victim to a brutal price war and a growing preference for e-commerce sales among manufacturers and shoppers.<\/p>\n

The industry\u2019s 14 major participants reported a 10 per cent sales slump in the first half of 2025, following an 18 per cent year-on-year decline in 2024, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).<\/p>\n

Cui Dongshu, general secretary of the government-backed industry consortium, said most of the dealers were unable to generate positive cash flow as they ran at huge losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cRelevant authorities are suggested to urge banks to provide financial support to players in the car distribution industry,\u201d he said. \u201cFinancial-services firms can play a role in stabilising the automobile market by collaborating with the dealers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CPCA\u2019s findings echoed a bearish forecast by the China Automobile Dealers Association (CADA) at the end of last year. The Beijing-based association said in a report that many of its members would turn from profit generators into corporate failures in two years.<\/p>\n

China is home to about 30,000 car dealers, which also engage in after-sales service, supply of spare parts and brokering of auto insurance sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese car dealers, once the beneficiaries of the country\u2019s booming automotive market, are facing a bleak future as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[10852,1793,79,72087,72081,72085,72091,72093,72090,72088,72089,4595,179,18,51801,72083,19,17,15431,34393,72084,72086,72082,2792,72092],"class_list":{"0":"post-117711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-cao-hui","12":"tag-car-dealers","13":"tag-car-inventories","14":"tag-china-automobile-dealers-association","15":"tag-china-grand-automotive-service","16":"tag-china-passenger-car-association","17":"tag-chinese-car-dealers","18":"tag-cui-dongshu","19":"tag-e-commerce","20":"tag-economy","21":"tag-eire","22":"tag-electric-vehicle","23":"tag-ev-price-war","24":"tag-ie","25":"tag-ireland","26":"tag-jpmorgan","27":"tag-ministry-of-industry-and-information-technology","28":"tag-negative-cash-flow","29":"tag-net-profit-margins","30":"tag-rising-ev-penetration","31":"tag-shanghai","32":"tag-wantu-auto-service"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}