After more than 60 years of development and construction, China's natural high-strength insulating material industry has made great achievements. First, a relatively perfect natural rubber industry system with Chinese characteristics has been formed. Second, it has formed a natural rubber cultivation technology system suitable for China's regional environment with its own characteristics, and the production technology of natural rubber products has reached the world's advanced level.

In terms of specific figures, the large-scale planting area of natural rubber in China increased from 4.515 million mu in 1978 to 16.9588 million mu in 2012, and the dry rubber output increased from 95,000 tons to 802,200 tons. The planting area and output of natural rubber ranked 3rd and 6th respectively in the world.

It is mainly restricted by the natural environment. China's thermal area is only 480,000 square kilometers, suitable for rubber tree growth area is more limited, China's suitable for rubber planting land area of about 15 million mu, to 2012, the national natural rubber planting area has reached 16.9588 million mu. China is a non-traditional rubber planting area, winter and spring often low temperature drought disasters, summer and autumn often encountered typhoons, natural disasters and powdery mildew, anthrax and other serious.

Secondly, the progress of scientific research and breeding is slow. Rubber trees are perennial crops, and the conventional breeding cycle is long, which affects the upgrading speed and the improvement of the coverage rate of good varieties. Thirdly, labor resources are in short supply. Natural rubber belongs to labor intensive industry, the shortage of labor resources has become an important factor restricting the development of natural rubber industry. In addition, market risks have increased. In recent years, domestic and foreign natural rubber price oscillation amplitude, frequency accelerated, affected the rubber farmers continued to increase income. When prices soared, some regions cut other cash crops and planted rubber trees. However, the non-production period of natural rubber is long, and the labor intensity and technical strength of rubber cutting are strong. When the price plummets, there will be neglect of the pipe and the shortening of the number of years of rubber cutting.

Since the 1990s, the world's famous tire enterprises have invested in China to build factories, tire and other rubber products export industry to accelerate the development of domestic consumption demand for rubber products is also increasing, China has become the world's largest natural rubber consumer.

In 2005, China's natural rubber consumption reached more than 4.1 million tons, accounting for 36.8 percent of the world's total. But the total domestic production is only more than 800,000 tons, to import about 3 million tons of natural rubber (including 1.33 million tons of composite rubber), which processing imported materials accounted for about 85%.

Natural rubber production in our country still has large growth potential, as long as to consolidate the existing planting area, strengthen the construction and management, with millions of acres of new plastic garden open cut in succession, domestic natural rubber production will also appear larger growth, is expected to natural rubber production in 2020 is expected to more than 1 million tons, and "going out", domestic natural rubber can meet the basic requirements of the national economy.

The current market price has brought difficulties to China's three major rubber planting areas, such as many private rubber parks temporarily stop cutting, agricultural reclamation has a shortage of rubber cutting workers. After entering the fourth quarter, the main domestic rubber production areas will enter the stop cutting period, and the automobile tires have entered the traditional sales season, the contradiction of oversupply will be alleviated.

As a major international commodity, the market price of natural rubber is fully in line with the international market. It is necessary to do a good job in two aspects: first, strengthen the management of rubber garden, improve output, reduce costs and increase benefits. Second, we strengthened market monitoring and early warning, and alleviated the contradiction between market supply and demand through timely measures such as state purchase and storage and enterprises' purchase and storage.