Should encourage overseas planting of natural rubber
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China's natural rubber has been more than 100 years old since its introduction to today's large-scale planting. In the past 50 years, China has broken through the international traditional rubber planting restricted area, successfully planted natural rubber forests in a large area of ​​18 to 24 degrees north latitude, and built three major natural rubber plantations and production bases in Hainan, Yunnan, and Guangdong, and the Guangxi Agricultural Reclamation Planting Rubber Garden. The planting area amounts to 775,000 hectares, and the annual output is about 550,000 tons. The planting area and annual output ranks fifth in the world's 43 rubber-producing countries. However, the current production scale is far from meeting the domestic demand for rapid growth.
Chen Jianbo, deputy director of the Thermal Development Department of the China Farming Economic Development Center, has been concerned about natural rubber for many years. He stated at the inauguration conference of the China National Natural Rubber Association held in Haikou City on November 15 that since 2000, the total amount of natural rubber imported by China has exceeded the total amount of domestic rubber. In 2006, including the consumption of foreign-funded factories, China consumed more than 2 million tons of natural rubber, imported 1.16 million tons of natural rubber, and imported about 75%. Natural rubber is mainly used in the tire industry (about 70% of total consumption). In recent years, the rapid development of China's automobile industry and manufacturing industry has driven the rapid development of the domestic tire industry. Michelin, Bridgestone and other foreign tire giants have entered China. The tires they produce are not only sold in China, but also sold to countries in the world. This has led to a surge in domestic demand for natural rubber. He predicted that in the next 5 to 10 years, domestic demand for natural rubber will increase at a rate of 5% to 8% per year, while the growth of China's natural rubber production will be limited, and the shortage of natural rubber will increase.
According to Chen Jianbo, currently Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines have formed a “four-nation price alliance†with the aim of guaranteeing the interests of the countries that produce the rubber. Countries joining the coalition cannot export natural rubber at below target prices. If prices fall due to oversupply, these countries will limit their production of natural rubber. Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and other three major natural rubber production areas in the world control 70% of global production. Under such circumstances, China's excessive dependence on imports of natural rubber will undoubtedly fall into the trap of being controlled by others.
Gao Hongbin, deputy director of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that due to the shortage of land resources and climatic conditions, China's potential to increase rubber production by expanding the planting area is very limited. China has a vast area, but the area suitable for planting natural rubber is less than 5% of the country's land area. The real applicable planting area is only about 1 million hectares. It is also mainly distributed in remote and underdeveloped areas with inaccessible traffic.
Therefore, these people believe that if you want to reduce China's dependence on foreign natural rubber, in addition to adhering to science and technology, you must implement the development strategy of “bringing in†and “going out†to establish a natural rubber planting base abroad. To increase the effective supply of domestic products.
At present, including Hainan Natural Rubber Industry Group Co., Ltd., some rubber production enterprises in China are stepping up implementation of the "going out" strategy. They participate in overseas operations directly or indirectly, build overseas natural rubber bases, bypass the barriers of the major rubber-producing countries and achieve external expansion, and enhance industrial competitiveness through the use of two international and domestic resources and two markets. However, Chen Jianbo said that although some companies in our country have invested in the construction of natural rubber planting bases in Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam and other countries, the largest area has more than 100,000 mu, but it is still a cup of water compared with domestic demand. In order to change the current situation where the proportion of imports is too large, more companies need to join the overseas rubber-planting team.