China's rubber industry has three major characteristics of the development

China Rubber Industry Association Secretary-General Fan Rende in the chemical industry cycle of the National Economic exchanges at the scene said at the meeting, in order to keep high-tech transformation of the traditional rubber industry, to adjust product structure, China's rubber industry in 2004 reached 162,370,000,000 yuan industrial output value, sales revenue 1548.6 Billion, total profits and taxes 12,940,000,000 yuan. By the international market, and other factors, China's rubber industry a major development in the following three features:

First, China has become the world's rubber consumption power and the first tire production power. In 2004, the amount of plastic waste industry more than 3,400,000 tons, the world's total rubber consumption to 22%. At the same time, China's rubber output of main products were ranked best in the world, of which 239,000,000 tire production, bicycle tire production 400,000,000, 80,000,000 square meters conveyor belt, 990,000,000 pairs of shoes, and so on. In 2005, China's tire industry produced a total of 283,000,000 tires, compared to 2004, an increase of 18.5 percent, the sales income of more than 800 billion yuan.

Second, China's rubber industry is the world's fastest-growing countries, but is a shortage of rubber resources. China's natural rubber output fifth in the world, in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and India, the production of synthetic rubber in the world in the third, which is lower than the United States, Japan, rubber accounted for only resources of the world's total resources by 10%. In recent years, China's annual imports of natural rubber for more than 1,200,000 tons, 600,000 tons of synthetic rubber or so. The world of limited resources, rubber, the decision to rely on imports of Chinese development of the difficulty of the rubber industry.
Third, China is the world's largest rubber waste occurred, as well as comprehensive utilization of waste rubber should be strengthened. In 2004, China's rubber waste produced about 2,720,000 tons, mainly of discarded tires, it was estimated that about 100,000,000. Rubber products, rubber waste belonging to the sulfide, regeneration is difficult, at the same time pollute the environment. Developed countries in the utilization rate of 80%, China is now only about 60%. By 2020, China used the occurrence of rubber is expected to increase to more than 600 million tons, the use of the situation will become even more severe.