In the first four months of this year, as stimulus measures introduced in 2009 were gradually removed and first-tier cities introduced purchase restrictions, China's auto market has slowed markedly.

In these two videos, an editor from EO's web department talks to Zhang Xu, a journalist from the Economic Observer's Auto Section, about the similarities between this slump and the slowdown that took place in 2004. They also discuss the outlook for China's car industry for the rest of the year.