The development of rubber industry has three major characteristics of

Rubber industry and energy, mining, construction, transportation, industrial and agricultural production, national defense and people's lives are closely related to the international market, and other factors, the development of China's rubber industry at present has three main characteristics.

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 and sales revenue 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, synthetic rubber production ranks third in the world, 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, it is difficult to regenerate 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.