An In-depth Interpretation of China's Automotive Tire Industry Policy in 2012

In 2011, global tire manufacturers invested heavily in expanding their high-performance tire production capacity to meet market demand. The amount of investment in expansion projects exceeded US$10 billion (equivalent to EUR 7.3 billion) and became the global tire industry investment expansion. Record year. Among them, the investment amounts of Hankook Tire, Michelin, Bridgestone, Pirelli, and Goodyear exceeded US$1 billion.

Hankook Tire ranks first in the list, with an investment of US$1.44 billion for the formation of tire factories in China and Indonesia and an R&D center in South Korea. In second place is Bridgestone, which invested US$1.15 billion to expand its production capacity of passenger car tires in Aiken County, South Carolina, USA. Ranked third is Michelin, with an investment of 1.1 billion U.S. dollars. Goodyear also invested about 1 billion US dollars for expansion, including investment of 500 million US dollars to expand the production capacity of high-performance passenger tires in the tire plant in Santiago, Chile.

In 2011, China's tire industry restructuring showed initial results: The tire radialization ratio increased, the tire sales revenue and export delivery value achieved a substantial increase, and the proportion of mid-to-high-end product exports increased significantly. According to Luo Baihui, secretary-general of the International Mould and Hardware and Plastics Industry Suppliers Association, China imported 12.3791 million tons of synthetic rubber in February. Imports amounted to US$44.285 million, an increase of 10.2% over the same period of last year. In January-February, the total amount was 242,851 tons, which was 2.6% lower than the 230.843 million tons in the same period of last year, and the decline was significantly reduced compared with January.

In order to implement the scientific concept of development, promote the tire industry to change the way, adjust the structure, improve the overall competitiveness, and guide the healthy and sustainable development of the tire industry, the country has formulated the tire industry policy.

Chapter I Policy Objectives Article 1 According to the needs of economic and social development, in accordance with the overall planning and objectives of the development of the petrochemical industry, through the merger and reorganization, optimization of layout, total control, elimination of backwardness, technological transformation, energy-saving emission reduction and other measures to actively promote tires Adjustment of industrial structure will be achieved by great changes.

Article 2 Adhere to the market as the leading factor and encourage key enterprises with comparative advantages to merge and restructure difficult companies and outdated enterprises through the combination of strong and strong alliances, brand sharing, and production and sales, promote the concentration of resources to competitive enterprises, and promote the development of enterprises to the group. , increase industrial concentration, optimize organizational structure; guide production enterprises to agglomerate development, optimize the layout structure; accelerate the elimination of outdated production capacity, promote product structure adjustment and optimization and upgrading.

Article 3 Tire manufacturers are encouraged to increase their independent research and development capabilities, increase their investment in R&D, carry out technological innovations, implement brand strategies, improve product technology, and increase their core competitiveness.

Article 4 regulates the behavior of various economic entities in terms of tire production, circulation, consumption, etc., creates a fair and uniform market environment, establishes a tire recall system, and improves the level of service in the industry.

Article 5: Develop a recycling economy, raise the level of energy conservation, emission reduction, pollution control, and comprehensive utilization of resources; establish and improve the management system for the recycling of waste tires, and promote the coordinated development of new tire production, renovation of used tires, and recycling of used tires.

Chapter II Adjustment of Products Article 6 Encourage the development of safe, energy-saving and environmentally friendly high-performance radial tires, giant engineering radial tires, wide-sectioned, flattened passenger radial tires and no-tube-tired radial tires. In 2015, the radialization rate of passenger tires reached 100%, the radialization rate of light-duty truck tires reached 85%, and the radialization rate of heavy-duty vehicles reached 90%; the development of radial tires for engineering, airline radial tires and low-speed vehicle radial tires was emphasized.

Article 7 Encourage automobile companies to assemble new tire products, increase the radialization rate of tires for large-scale passenger cars and trucks made in China, and basically realize radialization and non-tubing of assembled tires in 2015.