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Based on surveys of important innovations in the Chinese automobile industry, we divide the evolution of the automobile industry into three stages. We construct a conceptual model for the sectoral innovation system and utilize this model to analyse the main mechanisms of interaction in the context of autonomous innovations in the Chinese automobile industry. We attempt to interpret these autonomous innovations in the Chinese automobile industry from the perspective of an interactive system; the conclusions are suggestive and must be tested in further empirical research.

This paper analyzed the technological learning in the cluster from the aspects of player, environment and characters of targeted technologies. This paper argued that the firms in Chinese clusters should learn technologies outside the cluster and leader firms can be the "gate keepers", which is different from the typical technological learning mode in developed countries clusters, because of the poor technological capability, incomplete market economy system and pluralized targeted technologies' sources. The empirical study based on Dongguan and Taizhou clusters supported the authors' arguments well.