The largest natural
rubber base, covering an area of five million mu (one mu equivalent
to 0.164 acres), has been set up in the former barren hill and
wild mountain ridge in south China's Hainan Island. The yield
in Hainan natural rubber garden has now taken up half of the nation's
total.
According to the statistics, China now has become
the world's largest natural rubber consumer and importer, and
the consumption of rubber in China showed a tendency of undisrupted
increase. Seizing the opportunity of intense demands from domestic
market, Hainan agricultural department fully implemented the natural
rubber action plan formulated by Ministry of Agriculture.
Sticking to the objective of standardization, industrialization,
modernization, collectivization as well as internationalization,
agricultural departments in Hainan province has formed Hainan
Agricultural Natural Robber Corporation, accelerating the development
of the natural rubber industry in Hainan province and showing
Hainan's determination to be a bellwreath of natural rubber industry
in China.
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