本文为中国工程院“汽车强国战略研究”综述的第一部分（共两部分），对汽车发展总体情况进行了梳理，分析了我国汽车发展面临的新形势和新动态，总结出我国迎来建设汽车强国新一轮重大机遇。在此基础上，阐明了新时代“汽车强国”的内涵，提出了汽车产业提质增效和汽车社会协调发展是新时代“汽车强国”的两个主要特征。最后从十个方面论述了新时代建设汽车强国的重要意义。

This article is the first part of summary of strategy research on automobile power (comprising two parts) sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Engineering. This study investigates and summarizes the overall situation of automobile development, and analyzes the environment and the development trend of automobile in China. We conclude that the China automotive industry is experiencing a vital development period. Based on our analysis, we describe the essence of automobile power in the new era. We propose focusing on quality improvement and efficiency enhancement in the automotive industry and on the coordinated development of the automotive society as two main features of automobile power in the new era. In addition, we discuss the importance of building an automobile power from ten aspects.