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 1 Policy Objectives

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, and actively promote the adjustment of the tire industry structure to achieve From big to strong.

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 Product Adjustment

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.

Article 8 strictly restricts the development of bias tires. In addition to aviation tires, no new diagonal tire production capacity will be added. We will phase out biased tires with an annual output of 500,000 or less and tire production lines with natural cotton cord fabric as the skeleton. Restricted development of inner-tired radial tires.

Chapter III Technical Policy

Article 9 Adhere to the combination of imported technology and independent innovation, track and develop tire frontier technology, encourage original innovation, integrated innovation and introduction, digestion and absorption, and re-innovation, continuously develop advanced and applicable technologies with independent intellectual property rights, and promote the industry of independent innovation technologies. Change.

Article 10 Guides and encourages tire manufacturers to strengthen the construction of technology centers, use technology integration and application development of new technology projects, enhance independent innovation capabilities and new product development capabilities, and encourage joint development and commissioning of “production, research, and application”. In accordance with the provisions of tax laws and regulations, companies can enjoy preferential tax policies for the development of new technologies, new products, and new processes.

Article 11 Guide and encourage tire manufacturers to implement talent strategy, jointly cultivate and entrust the training of urgently needed technical talents with relevant scientific research institutes and colleges and universities; establish postdoctoral mobile stations, introduce high-level talents, and gather intellectual resources.

Article 12 According to the development status of China's tire and tire retreading industry technology and the development trend of international tire standards, the relevant standards and technical specifications for the retreading of tires and tires in China shall be promptly amended and revised. Guide and encourage the construction of tire performance test centers, evaluation test sites, and engineering and technical centers serving the entire industry.

Article 13 guides tire companies to jointly develop upstream and downstream companies, especially automobile manufacturers, to jointly develop new types of tires.

Article 14 vigorously promote energy-saving emission reduction and comprehensive utilization of resources. Guide and encourage tire manufacturers to promote the integration of informatization and industrialization, and carry out technological transformation focusing on increasing varieties, improving quality, saving energy, reducing pollution, and ensuring safety.

Development of recyclable rubber, environmentally friendly additives and other raw materials, waste tire recycling technology; improve the promotion of low-temperature rubber and nitrogen curing process; strengthen the management of mastic dust, rubber refining and curing smoke, promote clean production technology Simplify and gradually cancel the tire packaging.

Article 15 Encourage tire companies to promote the application of bar code technology, radio frequency identification and other information technologies in tire products and their production processes, build an information-based integrated system covering all aspects of production, operation and management, and innovate the information management of tire products. Service mode.

Chapter IV Construction of Supporting Conditions

Article 16 Encourage tire companies to participate in the planting and processing of natural rubber, optimize the initial processing of natural rubber, improve the level of process technology, product quality and logistics services, and guide enterprises to “go global” to establish overseas natural rubber planting and processing bases.

We will improve and improve the natural rubber reserve mechanism, strengthen the construction of the natural rubber futures market, and maintain the smooth operation of the domestic natural rubber market.

Article 17 Accelerate the development of isoprene rubber, halogenated butyl rubber and other varieties, increase the grades of synthetic rubber such as butadiene rubber and styrene-butadiene rubber, and gradually increase the proportion of synthetic rubber and the development and production capacity.

Article 18 actively encourages the development and use of new structural steel cords and high-modulus, low-shrinkage polyester cord fabrics, high-strength nylon cord fabrics and other tire frame materials, and accelerates the industrialization and application development of aramid fibers.

Article 19 Encourage the development of environmentally friendly rubber additives and special raw materials such as carbon black and white carbon black.

Article 20: Encouraging key equipment for radial tires such as large and new mixing units, tread compound extrusion units, steel wire calenders, steel cord cutting machines, radial tire forming machines and semi-finished products for tires, non-destructive testing of products, and on-line inspection equipment R&D, increase production equipment and monitoring and control.

Chapter 5 Industry Access

Article 21 Newly built, rebuilt or expanded tire production and tire retreading enterprises must comply with the national tire industry development plan and the overall industrial development plan of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government; they must meet the environmental protection plans or pollution prevention plans formulated by the national and provincial governments. .

Article 22 No tire manufacturing enterprise, old tire retreading enterprise, or waste tire recycling enterprise may be newly established in the scenic spots areas, nature reserves, drinking water source protection areas and residents surrounding areas established in accordance with the law. Tire production, old tire retreading and recycling of waste tires that have been put into production and operation in the above-mentioned areas shall be phased out gradually through relocation and conversion of production in accordance with the requirements of the regional planning.

Article 23 Newly-built, rebuilt or expanded truck radial tires projects, one-time production capacity should reach 1.2 million or more per year; Newly-built, rebuilt or expanded light-duty truck radial tires and passenger car radial tires projects, once formed production capacity should reach annual More than 6 million production.

Newly built, rebuilt or expanded heavy-duty trucks, light-duty trucks, and radial passenger car tires, and the single-species production capacity must also meet the above requirements.

Newly built, rebuilt or expanded construction machinery tires (excluding giant construction machinery tires) projects, a production capacity should reach an annual output of 30,000 or more.

Article 24 Newly built, rebuilt or expanded tire projects shall use energy-saving and environment-friendly process equipment. The rubber compounding shall adopt a large-capacity closed-type rubber mixing machine, and the nitrogen curing process shall be used for tire vulcanization.

Article 25 Newly built, rebuilt or expanded tires projects, the overall energy consumption should be less than 950 kg standard coal/tonne three glue (Note: Three-glue refers to natural rubber, synthetic rubber and reclaimed rubber).

Article 26 Newly built, rebuilt or expanded tire projects, the environmental protection measures shall meet the requirements of GB50469 “Design Code for Environmental Protection of Rubber Plants”, and the recycling rate of production water for enterprises shall reach more than 90%.

Article 27 Existing tire manufacturers shall meet the requirements of Article 24, Article 25 and Article 26 before the end of 2012.

Article 28 An old tire retreading enterprise shall have the ability to carry out the "three guarantees" of products, ensure the quality of the products necessary for testing and testing, as well as the comprehensive utilization of waste tires and realize the recycling of solid wastes.

Enterprises that make comprehensive use of waste tires should have the ability to realize the recycling of solid wastes.

Encourage old tire retreading enterprises and waste tires comprehensive utilization companies to carry out the comprehensive utilization of resources based on the "National Measures for the Comprehensive Utilization of Resources and Encouraged Uses."

Article 29 Tire enterprises must pass the quality management system, environmental management system certification and occupational health and safety management system certification.

Article 30 Tire manufacturers that meet the requirements of Articles 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27 meet the technical specifications and implement the “Three Guarantees”. The product of service can enter the market.

Tires that must undergo compulsory certification according to the regulations can only be sold after the compulsory certification.

Three-wheeled vehicles and low-speed truck tires (including agricultural tires) implement the corresponding technical specifications, and tires dedicated to three-wheeled vehicles and low-speed trucks must have distinctive signs that distinguish them from other tires.

Article 31 Organizations engaged in tire testing and certification shall strictly follow the relevant regulations of the state to carry out their work and be responsible for the results of testing and certification. The testing organization and certification organization shall not conduct repeated inspections and charges for the same product. If the work or customer's interests are damaged due to work mistakes, they shall bear corresponding responsibilities in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. Institutions that fail to pass the assessment according to the relevant regulations of the state shall promptly withdraw their qualifications. Article 32 The scientific research and production of military tires shall be incorporated into the management of scientific research and production licenses of weapons and equipment in accordance with the relevant regulations of the State.

Article 33 The access conditions for motorcycle tires, tires, and tires in the industry, the renovation of used tires, and the access conditions for the recycling of waste tires shall be established in due course.

Chapter 6 Investment Management

Article 34 According to the "Decision of the State Council on the Reform of the Investment System" and the "Provisional Administrative Measures for the Approval of Foreign Investment Projects" and other documents, the domestic-funded tire construction project adopts a filing system, and the foreign-funded tire project adopts an approval system.

Article 35 In order to respond positively to changes in the tire development environment, except for the relocation and technological transformation of existing enterprises (including mergers and acquisitions), during the planning period for industrial adjustment and rejuvenation (2009-2011), tires will no longer be newly constructed or expanded. project.

Article 36 Domestic-funded enterprises investing in the construction of new or reconstructed tires (including the construction of mergers and acquisitions in different places and the construction of non-independent legal person branches) shall be recorded by the relevant departments confirmed by the provincial people's government.

Encourage powerful domestic-funded enterprises to set up tire branches outside the country, and domestic-funded enterprises invest overseas tire production projects in accordance with the relevant regulations of the state.

Article 37 Foreign-invested Newly Built, Rebuilt or Expanded Tire Projects. Projects with a total investment of 300 million U.S. dollars or less are approved by the relevant departments confirmed by the provincial people's government; projects with a total investment of 300 million U.S. dollars or more are confirmed by the provincial people's government. The department reports to the competent national authority for approval.

Chapter VII Import and Export Management

Article 38: The tax rate shall be given full play of the regulation and control of industrial development. The tariff tariffs and tax rates for tire products and tire raw materials shall be scientifically formulated to coordinate the development of the tire industry and related industries.

Article 39 Under the guidance of relevant departments of the State, establish and improve the early warning system for industrial damage in the tire industry and maintain the safety of China's tire industry.

Article 40 Export tires must be purchased from enterprises that meet the industry access requirements of this policy. Products must meet our national standards. Imports of higher state standards require that they also meet the standards of the importing country.

Article 41 Imported tires must comply with relevant national standards and regulations of China.

Chapter VIII Brand and Service

Article 42 Tire manufacturers must use legal trademarks, and it is forbidden to produce standard tires, standard tires, and counterfeit tires.

Article 43 Guides and encourages tire companies to formulate brand fostering plans and implement brand management strategies. Develop its own branded products, maintain its own brand image, increase brand awareness and reputation, and continue to increase brand value.

Article 44 Tire manufacturers and brand marketers are encouraged to establish long-term and stable cooperative relations and promote the building of brand product sales and service systems.

Article 45 Encourage tire manufacturers to establish strategic cooperation relationships with automobile manufacturers and tire marketers, innovate service concepts, and change tire management methods.

Foreign investors are allowed to establish tire sales and after-sales service companies in accordance with Chinese laws and administrative regulations.

Article 46 It is forbidden to market the tires and passenger tires smuggled of tires, substandard tires, standard tires, modified tires, and non-compulsory product certification marks; it is forbidden to distribute three-pack tires. Article 47 Instruct tire manufacturers to cooperate with marketing companies, large transport groups, and waste tire comprehensive utilization enterprises, and establish tire sales models such as old renovation and trade-in replacement.

Article 48 Establish a system for the recall of tyres (including retreaded tyres). The recall system began with the Ml class of vehicle tires (passenger seats and passenger vehicles with no more than 9 seats) and gradually implemented them in all tire products.

Article 49 prohibits the provision of tire products to overload vehicles that attempt to illegally produce and modify.

Article 50 advocates tire consumers to use branded products and consciously regulate their use behavior; in order to maintain traffic safety, the use of tires that have reached the wear limit is eliminated.

Chapter Nine Waste Tire Recycling and Utilization

Article 51 Establish and improve a management system for the recycling of waste tires and standardize the construction of a market system for the recycling of used tires.

Article 52 Guide and encourage tire manufacturers to develop circular economy, develop old tire retreading, recycling tire tire recycling technologies, and participate in the construction of used tire recycling systems.

Scientifically and rationally improve the retreading rate and number of refurbishment of truck tires, engineering tires and aviation tires, and extend the mileage of tires throughout their lifetime. Newly-designed and manufactured tire products should be retreadable, and new tires should be designed and manufactured to gradually improve their retreadability. The number of renovations; retreaded tires should be regarded as new tires in accordance with the provisions of mandatory certification system, retreaded tires before entering the market, the need for compulsory certification of products, must first pass the certification.

Article 53 Enterprises engaged in retreading of used tires and recycling of used tires must adopt clean production techniques and technological equipment that meet the requirements of environmental protection and comply with the requirements for energy conservation and emission reduction, so as to prevent secondary pollution. It is forbidden to use waste tyres for earth refining and to ban the construction of used petroleum tire refining equipment.

Article 54 Enterprises engaged in the recycling of used tires shall be based on domestic sources of used tires. In order to prevent overseas pollution from being transferred to China, old tire imports should be strictly implemented in accordance with relevant laws and regulations of the state to prevent imported tires from being imported in violation of regulations.

Chapter 10 Others

Article 55 Actively play the role of bridges and ties between government and enterprises in intermediary organizations such as industry associations, strengthen industry self-regulation, standardize industry operations, maintain industrial order, monitor industry operations, strengthen industry services, carry out industry exchanges, and promote industry health development of.

Promote the establishment of dialogues, consultations, and information exchange mechanisms between industry associations, foreign trade associations, and industry, strengthen communication, build mutual trust, increase cooperation, and resolve trade frictions.

Article 56 If the standards and technical specifications involved in this industrial policy are revised, they shall follow the revised implementation.

Article 57 This industrial policy shall be implemented as of the date of promulgation, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shall be responsible for interpreting and timely revision according to the development of the industry.