G.M. Led in China for Years. Here's How It Ended Up 16th in Sales.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The company provided a statement expressing optimism that its main operations in China, a joint venture with the state-owned SAIC Motor of Shanghai that makes Chevrolets, Buicks and Cadillacs, would return to health.
57% : They built bulky minivans with lots of sparkling chrome to appeal to leaders of the state-owned companies that were big customers.
56% : Government leaders were also intent early on to shift away from cars that needed gasoline, which China mostly imports, and toward electric cars powered by energy sources at home like coal, solar and wind.
54% : Government policies that forced G.M. into joint ventures with Chinese companies meant that G.M. ended up teaching much of what it knew about car manufacturing to local rivals that now outsell it.
50% : In addition to wielding tax policy at foreign carmakers, Beijing limited or blocked government subsidies for cars built by foreign companies.
46% : But the Chinese government told G.M. that the Volt would not qualify for government subsidies -- up to $19,300 per car -- unless G.M. agreed to transfer electric car technology to SAIC Motor, like how to make powerful batteries that could be recharged many times.
44% : "China is well positioned to lead in this," David Tulauskas, an early G.M. director of China government policy, said in a 2009 interview.
42% : China allowed foreign carmakers like G.M. into the country only as part of a publicly stated, long-term policy to gain technology and build its own globally competitive industry.

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