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The past year of 2022 was the most difficult year since many rubber people have been in the industry.

Due to the multi-point spread of the domestic epidemic, the production and operation of the entire rubber industry chain have been greatly affected. At the beginning of the year, logistics and transportation were blocked, raw material and energy prices rose sharply, and the domestic market shrank significantly, resulting in an increase in factory inventory, a low operating rate, and a sharp decline in profits. In the second quarter, the downward pressure on the economy increased due to unexpected factors such as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the Shanghai lockdown. In May, with the overall improvement of the domestic epidemic prevention and control situation, the economies of some regions that were hit hard by the epidemic rebounded; The state has successively introduced a package of policies and measures to stabilize the economy, the effect has gradually appeared, domestic demand has recovered, and under the policy stimulus, the decline rate of the automotive industry has narrowed significantly; Domestic logistics are guaranteed to be smooth, foreign trade logistics is gradually improved, and the production and operation situation of the rubber industry has undergone positive changes.

According to the statistics of key member enterprises by the China Rubber Industry Association, it is expected that in 2022, the rubber industry will achieve a year-on-year increase of 3% in total industrial output value (the same below), a 5% increase in sales revenue, a 17% increase in export delivery value, a 13% decrease in profit, and a 27% increase in finished product inventory. This data can be said to be mixed, the good news is that the industry's exports, industrial output value and sales revenue continue to maintain positive growth, and the worry is that the industry's profits have shrunk significantly.

Looking forward to 2023, China's economy will usher in a magnificent new starting point.

With the optimization and implementation of the "New Ten Measures" for epidemic prevention and control in China, normal economic and trade cooperation and business exchanges at home and abroad will resume, people's lives will gradually return to normal, and the confidence of Chinese residents and enterprises will gradually be restored. In addition, inflation in developed countries will peak, monetary contraction in the US and European central banks will come to an end, and China's monetary policy will be more flexible and controllable. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting on December 6 to analyze and study the economic work in 2023. The meeting emphasized that "the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand and the deepening of supply-side structural reform will be organically combined to achieve effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity", marking that China will implement the third round of "strategy of expanding domestic demand". It is expected that the expansion of domestic demand will be a combination of stabilizing real estate, supporting infrastructure and expanding manufacturing, focusing on both the improvement of the "quantity" of economic growth and the improvement of "quality", which will be conducive to the development of China's rubber industry.

In 2023, China's rubber industry needs to pay close attention to keywords such as "digital industrialization, energy security, independent and controllable" proposed by the state. Digital industrialization, involving industrial Internet, smart cars, smart homes; Energy security, involving new energy vehicles, wind power energy storage, and traditional energy transformation; Independent and controllable, involving national defense industry, industrial industry chain security, information security. These areas that the state focuses on will surely bring new development opportunities to the entire rubber industry.

In 2023, the opportunity is just around the corner. It is believed that the whole industry has the determination to "grasp the green mountains and not relax", and rejuvenate the motivation of "the more difficult and dangerous the forward", and finally usher in the beautiful moment of "mountains and heavy waters have no way back, and there is another village".

In the new year, with the strong support of all member enterprises, China Rubber Industry Association will be more proactive and work with enterprises to brainstorm, walk together through thick and thin, break the waves, lead the industry to build a new development pattern, and promote the industry to achieve high-quality development.