Deferred Income Tax Assets (Details 1) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013
Income Tax [Line Items]
Balance at beginning of year	$ 8,918	$ 8,988
Amounts provided for during the year	485caas_ProvisionForValuationAllowance	70caas_ProvisionForValuationAllowance
Amounts used during the year	(160)caas_ValuationAllowanceRecoveries	(188)caas_ValuationAllowanceRecoveries
Foreign currency translation	(7)	48
Balance at end of year	$ 9,236	$ 8,918

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Represents the reflects the amounts provided for the provision of valuation allowance.

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Represents the reflects the amounts for the foreign currency translation of valuation allowance.

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Reflects the amounts for the recoveries of valuation allowance.

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Amount of deferred tax assets for which it is more likely than not that a tax benefit will not be realized.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 740

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (c)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6907707&loc=d3e32537-109319

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