The rubber industry is one of the important basic industries of the national economy. It not only provides people with daily use that is indispensable for daily life,Light-duty rubber products such as medical products, and various rubber production equipment or rubber parts for heavy industry and emerging industries such as mining, transportation, construction, machinery, electronics, etc. It can be seen that there are many types of products in the rubber industry, and the backward industry is very broad.
In recent years, the rubber industry has achieved a lot of development. The sub-sectors have been steadily rising, and the new rubber sub-sectors are developing rapidly. At the same time, the rubber industry also has problems such as environment, resources, disasters and innovation.
In 2004, the total area of natural rubber planting in the country was 696,200 hectares, the area of open cutting was 451,900 hectares, and the output of dry rubber was 573,300 tons. Among them, the planting area of agricultural rubber was 411,000 hectares, and the private sector was 285,200 hectares, accounting for 59.03% and 40.97% of the total rubber area of the country.
In 2005, Hainan suffered from a rare drought of 50 years and a typhoon disaster that never happened in a hundred years, and natural rubber production was hit hard. In order to tap the development potential of domestic natural rubber planting and processing, and increase self-sufficiency, the Chinese rubber industry has made unremitting efforts to conscientiously implement the national safety, energy conservation, environmental protection and clean production guidelines, and achieved significant results. In particular, the rubber auxiliaries industry has actively adjusted the product structure, and the green environmental protection additives have grown substantially. The proportion of excellent varieties of antioxidants has reached 80%, the accelerators have reached 50%, and the production of toxic, harmful and highly carcinogenic NOBS has been effectively controlled. The comprehensive utilization rate of waste rubber has reached more than 65%, and the field of processing and utilization of recycled rubber and rubber powder has expanded.