Experts offer advice for the Tire & Rubber Industry

In view of the main raw material for tires --- natural rubber and synthetic rubber to highlight the contradictions between supply and demand, industry experts suggested that the state should be appropriate to adjust the existing rubber tires and industrial policies.

First of all, in a local production of rubber trees to increase the region's natural rubber production, as well as the production of natural rubber to enhance the quality and level of processing, improved varieties of rubber. Second, to raise rubber, tire companies access threshold, and that a moderate change to the import of synthetic rubber anti-dumping policy. As soon as possible to increase output and increased production of Synthetic Synthetic varieties and upgrading of product quality, particularly in the case of styrene butadiene rubber and the production of synthetic rubber to ease domestic supply and demand conflicts.

Data show that the Chinese tire production in 2004 reached 239,000,000, 18.7 percent increase over the previous year. From 1999 to 2004, Chinese tire production at an average annual rate of 15%.