Chinese Tire Industry’s plan from 2021 to 2025

On November 25, 2020, the China Rubber Industry Association (CRIA) officially released the "Guiding Outline for the "14th Five-Year" Development Plan for the Rubber Industry". According to Zhu Hong, deputy secretary-general of the China Rubber Association and director of the Technical and Economic Committee, the overall development goal of the rubber industry is to maintain a steady growth in the total volume, but the average annual growth rate is slightly lower than the current level.

The emphases will be on independent innovation, intelligent manufacturing and products with new technologies. Continue to consolidate China's rubber industry's international leading scale influence and export share, to cultivating brand products, and to strengthen international cooperation in both production and sales. CRIA also cites the growth of commercial production of radial motorcycle tires, including high-speed tires, as well as the increase in tire quality, development of materials for non-pneumatic bicycle tires, and the launch of high-end bicycle tires as targets for this segment of the industry.

AUTOMOTIVE and INDUSTRIAL TIRES annual production by 2025

--704 million units, of which 96% are radial tires, including

--527 million units passenger car radial tire

--148 million units truck and bus radial tire and 29 million units truck and bus bias tire

--20,000 units engineering jumbo radial tire

--12 million units agricultural tire, of which 16% are radial (currently the number is 2.5%)

--54,000 units of aircraft tires, of which 15% are China-made

Other goals

-Commercialization of aircraft radial tires.

-Tubeless tires accounting for 70% of truck and bus tires

-Raise passenger car tire’s flatness ratio to 30% (for 55-45 series)

-At least 70% of tires on the market are green tires

TWO-WHEELER TIRE annual production by 2025

-120.7 million units motorcycle tire and 211.1 million units motorcycle inner tube

-420 million units bicycle tire and 550 million units bicycle inner tube

-363 million units moped tire and 77 million units moped inner tube

Other goals

-Commercialization of motorcycle radial tire with product qualification rate above 98%

-Raise the product qualification rate of ultra-thin bicycle tire (weight no more than 260 grams) to 98.5%

-Developing ultra-thin sidewall for bicycle and moped tires, and raising lightweight ratio for these tires to 30%

-Further development of TPU or other recyclable composites used in non-pneumatic bicycle tire, and expand application of such tire from shared bikes to toddler vehicles, everyday bikes and moped

-Develop higher-end bicycle tires such as race bike tube; develop butyl rubber tubes with 0.5mm thickness

-Develop high speed grade motorcycle radial tire