Report: China's tire industry is in urgent need of transformation and upgrading

Chinese tire industry restructuring and development constraints encountered 
    (a) the status of Chinese tire industry 
    tire production, exports, number of firms rank first in the world, with more complete tire industry system. 
    From a global perspective, China's tire industry big but not strong, the overall brand of the Chinese army in the low-end market image, low degree of internationalization, there is no world-class brands, low technological content, product homogeneity serious, low-level redundant construction, industry concentration is not high, low resource utilization, excessive consumption of social resources. 
    (B) major constraints 
    for the first time, environmental regulations behind. The green tire generally cover non-toxic harmless, low-carbon fuel-efficient renovation, as opposed to traditional tire rolling resistance can be reduced 20% -25%, saving more than 5% of the fuel. EU on June 1, 2008 the formal implementation of the REACH Regulation; since November 1, 2012 the formal implementation of the EU tire labeling bill, while China's environmental laws seriously lagging behind. 
    Secondly, the product environmental regulations, but implementation difficulties. The same tubeless tires with respect to the tubeless tire fuel savings of more than 5%. If the country's truck tires all switched to tubeless tires, annual fuel-efficient monthly 1.4 billion liters, reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 310 million tons. China's car radial tire and bus radial tires tubeless words has been basically achieved, but truck tires tubeless rate is still low compared to Europe and the United States Cash countries. The European truck tube rate reached 90%, while China is only about 30%. Green tubeless tire is a typical energy saving products, saving resources and protecting the environment is of great significance. 
    In addition, the low rate of tire retreading. A tire that can be refurbished 1-2 times the cost of a new truck tires about 70% of spending on the carcass, the renovation of old tires to invest 70% less resources. Each refurbished once to extend the total life of the tire by 1-2 times. Chinese New Year waste tires generated about 9 million tons, which is about 300 million tons of rubber resources, if all refurbishment and re-use, the equivalent of China's natural rubber production. Retreaded tires in the country is still in the market introduction phase, without attention, the market has not yet fully open, the domestic tire retreading rate of less than 5%, the developed countries has reached more than 45%, which means that production and use of the same number of tires China than in developed countries to devote more resources and energy consumption, but also a waste of resources with use value, and brought greater environmental pollution. 
    (C) China's domestic tire companies operating model urgent need to shift
    to foreign trade, for example, tire sold to foreign tire companies in China and traveled across oceans will account for about 42% of the total output, low prices, big hit with local enterprises, including tire companies price war, frequently encountered anti-dumping, anti-subsidy. Which approximately 70% of the passenger car tire sold overseas, the price is about 50% lower than the world's top enterprises, suffered in 2009 known as the people of the United States "special protective case. 
    Second, the Chinese tire industry restructuring and development of thinking and 
    in the process of restructuring and development of the tire industry, the China Rubber Industry Association and industry insight has done a lot of work and actively called for, but the objective difficulties encountered in the implementation level, resulting in fact promote slow. In order to speed up the restructuring and development of the domestic tire industry put forward the following thinking and recommendations. 
    (A) to accelerate industrial restructuring and upgrading to the thinking of the rule of law and the rule of law. Therefore, the tire industry should be formulated as soon as possible with international standards, in line with China's national conditions of China REACH and tire labeling law. National tire renovation introduced a lot of support policies, but the tire retreading industry chain, there are some constraints in the two trapped state of development, in which a constraint, a new tire manufacturing quality problems, the National new tires can be refurbished and the lack of mandatory technical quality standards. 
    (B) actively called for the introduction of incentives. The "two sessions", put forward the "Green Development Award for outstanding contribution to the establishment of China's industrial enterprises, mainly recommended that the relevant state ministries and the introduction of incentives to speed up the recommended industrial transformation and upgrading; proposed in the green, recycling, low-carbon development the courage to play, the first action and Ju outstanding contribution to enterprise, awarded the Award for outstanding contribution to the green development of China's industrial enterprises, and give the award-winning corporate taxation preferential policies to support. 
    (C) and actively foster the development of Eucommia rubber resources.China's natural rubber self-sufficiency rate is low, 80% dependent on imports. The the gutta tree is a species unique to China, Eucommia rubber is in addition to the Hevea world's only high-quality natural rubber resources development prospects, but the difficulties encountered in the development and promotion. 
    (4) Other Thoughts and suggestions. First, the tire companies should increase the focus on "four modernizations" heavy industrialization, mechanization, automation, intelligent progress, not only embodies the people-oriented, and have helped to raise the quality of the manufacturing process. Suggested that the relevant ministries and the lead in developing key areas, key industries and the implementation of mechanization and automation, intelligent evaluation indicators and system, and set up the progress of industrialization incentive fund. 
    Secondly, the tire companies should actively change the way of foreign trade. To raise the transition from scale expansion to quality and economic change, promote the formation of new competitive advantage as the core technology, brand, quality, service exports overall competitive advantage from a cost and price advantage.

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