China outlines regional plan for rubber-related industries

Beijing – China launched its latest Guidelines on Industry Development and Transfer on 29 Dec 2018, mapping out preferential industries for different regional areas to develop.

The guidelines by the ministry of industry and information technology – six years since its last version in 2012 – aims to promote the orderly transfer and upgrade of regional industrial clusters.

The strategic document is also intended to deliver a new inter-regional balance, according the ministry’s announcement on the day of the launch.

For rubber materials, the industries assigned to different…