The China Rubber Industry Association has determined its work plan for 2019.

At the 37th Secretary-General Meeting of the China Rubber Industry Association (CRIA) held from January 8th to 11th, Xu Wenying, Vice President and Secretary-General of CRIA, delivered a report titled 2018 Work Summary and 2019 Work Arrangements.

I. Strengthening Industry Organizational Work

1. Building various conference and communication platforms to provide more interactive learning opportunities

• CRIA-organized rubber annual conferences and national information briefings should capture the current hotspots in the industry's economic development, striving to meet the information needs of member enterprises from different professional fields, ensuring that representatives from all sectors gain insights.
• Meetings organized by branches (committees) should fully demonstrate industry characteristics and technical features, with targeted focus to enable participating enterprises to achieve diverse gains. Meanwhile, leveraging CRIA's unique complete industrial chain, strengthen upstream-downstream linkages, organize interactive exchanges between upstream and downstream enterprises, and achieve the goal of common development.
• In 2019, CRIA plans to organize major conferences including the China Rubber Annual Conference in Guangzhou in March, the Global Tire Technology Forum in Shenyang in June, and the National Rubber Industry Information Briefing in Wuxi in October.

2. Organizing overseas 考察 (inspections) for enterprises to observe and learn advanced foreign technologies and management experience
   Observing and learning from the experience of foreign advanced enterprises and new product exhibitions is an effective means to improve the technical, quality, and management levels of domestic enterprises. In 2019, the Association will continue to organize overseas 考察 activities, planning business trips to Taiwan (China), Germany, and Japan.

3. Conducting research on member enterprises' needs and carrying out diversified training services
   Although the Association already provides training services, overall activities are limited and forms are single. In the new year, the Association will widely survey enterprise needs to offer multi-level and diverse training services for the industry.

• In addition to traditional classroom teaching, develop differentiated training activities based on different needs, such as "online training".
• Organize technical experts at various industry levels to sign on-site training service contracts with enterprises having similar needs, providing training at the production frontline.

4. Continuing to carry out industry public welfare activities
   Organize the 5th China Green Tire Safety Week to promote China's leading tire brands and help more consumers understand Chinese tires and tire safety knowledge.

II. Promoting Industry Coordination Work

1. Continuing to appeal to relevant national departments to cancel import tariffs on natural rubber and advocate effective supervision of enterprises with low-price exports, striving for a fair competition environment for industry development.
2. Regularly communicating with the Ministry of Commerce, reporting the progress of trade friction cases encountered by the industry, and seeking government support and attention.
3. With the intensified national environmental protection governance, the rubber industry has invested heavily in VOCs treatment and odor disposal, with huge operating and maintenance costs, imposing significant operational management burdens on enterprises. The Association will appeal to environmental protection departments to stipulate different emission limits based on the location of pollution sources.
4. Calling on the state to pay attention to the use of winter tires and proposing to include the use of winter tires in severe cold areas of northern China in the legislative process.
5. Rubber enterprises in China should maintain a relationship of competition and cooperation. The Association calls for and promotes joint R&D of common technologies among enterprises, maximizes the role of expensive equipment, and achieves effective resource utilization.

III. Enhancing Industry Service Work

1. Closely monitoring the impact of China-US trade friction on the industry, keeping a close eye on changes in export situations, and releasing industry production data, etc.
2. Giving play to the role of industry expert groups to solve key and difficult problems in industry development.
3. Visiting member enterprises, conducting industry research, and providing consulting services to enterprises.
4. Continuing to carry out industry brand building, promoting leading enterprises, brands, and products in the industry, and advancing technological innovation, management innovation, and product innovation across the industry.
5. Continuing to do a good job in industry statistics, and better serving the industry through data analysis.
6. Continuing to run China Rubber Network, China Rubber magazine, and internal publications of each branch, paying attention to information release through new media, and building a platform for industry information exchange and experience sharing.

IV. Strengthening Industry Self-Discipline Work

1. Continuing to promote the formulation of industry group standards to establish entry thresholds for the industry and provide standards for downstream users and industry applications

• Make full use of CRIA and branch conferences, publications, and websites to widely publicize and disseminate the issued group standards to industry enterprises and downstream industries, expanding the influence of the Association's group standards.
• Organize industry expert groups to guide the implementation of standards, conduct comparative analysis of the impact of standard implementation on the industry and enterprises, and form analysis reports that guide industry technological development.
• Push the reports to industry enterprises and downstream industries, and collect opinions for standard improvement and revision during the guidance process.

2. Giving play to the role of industry self-discipline conventions
   Sort out, standardize, and improve the self-discipline conventions of various industries within the Association, and vigorously publicize model enterprises through conferences, publications, websites, and other media.

3. Paying attention to market low-price vicious competition incidents

1. The increase in export tax rebate rates is a national policy to encourage enterprise exports and enhance market competition advantages. The industry is called upon to compete based on product quality and technical content.
2. Using customs export statistics, interview and 通报 (circulate within the industry) enterprises engaging in unfair competition to establish a fair and orderly export market environment.
3. Pay attention to e-commerce business models, expose market order disruption and monopolistic phenomena in e-commerce, and feedback to government functional departments to safeguard industry reputation and consumers' legitimate rights and interests.

4. Continuing to do a good job in the registration and issuance of China Tire Labels, increasing the promotion of registered enterprises' product brands to enable registered enterprises to obtain tangible benefits, and letting tire labels play a role in guiding consumers to make rational purchases. As the number of registered enterprises and labels issued increases, the Association should earnestly fulfill its supervisory responsibilities, timely compile and release quality reports, respond quickly to market adverse reactions, and gradually improve emergency work plans, so as to promote the upgrading of the tire industry through this work.

5. Calling on the industry to focus on environmental protection, green development, and quality improvement.

6. Assessing the completion of the rubber industry's "13th Five-Year Plan" and launching the formulation of the "14th Five-Year Plan".