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Shanghai Chint Rubber Factory (1927)

Shanghai Chint Rubber Factory was founded in 1927 and began producing tires in 1946. In 1980, it became a national The largest tire company, with an annual production capacity of 1.5 million units. In 1990, Shanghai Tire and Rubber (Group) Company was jointly established with Shanghai Great China Rubber Factory and became the core enterprise of the company. In 2001, the newly built semi-steel radial tire factory with an annual output of 1.4 million units and France's Michelin jointly established Shanghai Michelin Huili Tire Co., Ltd., and Chint's name disappeared from the industry.

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Great China Rubber Factory (1928)

Great China Rubber Factory started in 1928 and produced my country’s first automobile in October 1934 tire. Mass production began the following year and was put on the market, becoming a milestone in the development history of China's tire industry.

In 1961, the tire production of Great China Rubber Factory No. 1 began to be transferred to Zhongnan Rubber Factory. In 1965, the equipment with an annual output of 200,000 sets of tires and 707 employees moved to Guiyang to support the expansion of Guizhou Rubber Factory into Guizhou Tire factory. In 1981, it was named Shanghai Great China Rubber Factory. In 1990, it jointly established Shanghai Tire and Rubber (Group) Company with Shanghai Chint Rubber Factory and became the core enterprise of the company.

In 1992, the company was restructured into Shanghai Tire and Rubber (Group) Co., Ltd., becoming the first listed company in China's tire industry. In 2007, Shanghai Tire and Rubber (Group) Co., Ltd. was renamed Shuangqian Group Co., Ltd.

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Qingdao Huanghai Rubber (1933)

The second state-owned factory is now Huanghai Rubber. It was founded in 1933 and was called Qilu Company Qingdao Rubber. Factory, later Shandong Rubber Factory, with an annual output of 50,000 tires. In 1952, it was renamed the Second State-owned Rubber Factory (Qingdao). In 1958, it was decentralized together with the First State-owned Factory and renamed Qingdao No. 2 Rubber Factory. Like the first state-owned factory, the second state-owned factory also made great contributions to the national tire industry.

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Hualin Rubber Factory (1938)

Founded in 1938, it was moved from Shenyang to Mudanjiang in 1950 and became the first state-owned rubber factory. , later changed to Hualin Rubber Factory. In 1999, it was approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission and became a listed company (stock abbreviation "Hualin Tire", stock code "600182"). Hualin once ranked first in China's tire industry and is the cradle of China's tire industry, sending more than 4,000 key talents to all parts of the country and the tire industry.

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Guizhou Tire Factory (1958)

Guizhou Tire Co., Ltd. was formerly known as Guizhou Tire Factory. It was founded in the spring of 1958 and merged with Shanghai in 1965. The parts of the Greater China Rubber Factory that were relocated were merged and expanded. In 1996, Guizhou Tire Co., Ltd. was reorganized into a listed company.

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Chongqing Tire Factory (1958)

In 1956, the Ministry of Chemical Industry decided to build a new Sichuan Tire Factory in Chongqing, and the expanded rubber factories in Northeast China Most of the infrastructure construction team was transferred, and later the Chongqing Tire Factory was formed. Information shows that Chongqing Tire Factory was established in 1958 and was the first tire factory in Southwest China. At that time, based on the needs of transportation development in southwest China, the former Ministry of Chemical Industry decided to build a tire factory in Zhongliangshan, Chongqing, with a designed production capacity of 550,000 sets of tires per year. Before the National Day of the same year, the factory used earthen equipment and renovated private houses as workshops to produce 17 tires in 60 days.

In 1964, the expansion of Chongqing Tire Factory was completed, becoming the largest tire factory in Southwest China. In the mid-1990s, due to unsustainable development and the emergence of a joint venture, Chongqing Tire Factory was changed to Chongqing Zhongce Tire Co., Ltd. It was acquired by Giti Tire in 2001.

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Zhongce Rubber (1958)

Hangzhou Haichao Rubber Factory, the predecessor of Zhongce Rubber Group Co., Ltd., was established in 1958. In July 1958 On the 1st, the first trolley tire was born. In 1960, the "Haichao Brand" product trademark was registered, and in August 1966, it was changed to "Chaoyang Brand". In 1966, Hangzhou Haichao Rubber Factory was renamed Hangzhou Rubber Factory.

Zhongce’s rubber product line now covers truck and bus tires, passenger car tires, motorcycle tires, bicycle tires, industrial engineering tires, ATV tires, etc. It owns five major brands: Chaoyang, Good Luck, Weishi, Quannuo and Yadu, as well as the Zhongce Vehicle Space Service Platform.

At present, Zhongce has 13 large-scale domestic and foreign production bases in Chaoyang, Jiande, Jintan, Xiaoshan, Anji, Yonggu, and Qingquan. It has more than 1,200 dealers in more than 160 countries around the world, and has formed a network with 250,000 tire shops. Global service network.

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Aeolus Tire (1965)

Aeolus Tire’s predecessor was the state-owned Henan Tire Factory, which was founded in 1965. The first state-owned factory participated in the aid The Henan Tire Factory was built, and the first state-owned factory moved all large-engineering tires into the Henan Tire Factory. Today, Fengshen Tire’s engineering tires are still world-famous. In 2003, Fengshen Tire was listed on the A-share market.

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Yinchuan Rubber Factory (1965)

Yinchuan Rubber Factory was built in 1965 in order to strengthen the industrial construction strength in ethnic minority areas and adjust the national In terms of the layout of the rubber industry, we have made overall arrangements to focus on strengthening the strategic rear area in the "Third Front Construction", relocating some of the key rubber industry enterprises in the eastern region to Ningxia, and jointly building the Yinchuan Rubber Factory with the Yinchuan Rubber Products Factory. (In 1965, Qingdao Second Rubber Factory allocated one-third of its equipment (200,000 pieces), and more than 600 people prepared to build Ningxia Yinchuan Rubber Factory. The State-owned Third Rubber Factory (Shenyang) was referred to as the State-owned Third Factory. In 1965, 1 /3Equipment personnel to assist the Yinchuan Tire Plant) was put into production the year it was built. After hard development, it became the largest tire production base and key enterprise in the northwest region. It is also the only manufacturer of aviation tire retreading in China.

In 1993, Yinchuan Rubber Factory formed a joint venture with Hong Kong China Tire Group Co., Ltd. to establish Yinchuan Zhongce (Great Wall) Rubber Co., Ltd. In 1999, Yinchuan Rubber Factory and Ningxia Electric Power Development Investment Co., Ltd. jointly invested in the establishment of Yinchuan (Great Wall) Tire Co., Ltd. Yinchuan Rubber Factory held 55% of the shares and Ningxia Electric Power Development and Investment Co., Ltd. held 45% of the shares.

In 2002, Yinchuan Rubber Factory established two joint ventures, "Yinchuan Giti Great Wall Tire Co., Ltd." and "Yinchuan Giti Tire Co., Ltd." with Singapore Giti Company and Anhui Giti Tire Co., Ltd. In 2004, Singapore Giti Company and Anhui Giti Company respectively transferred their equity interests in the above two joint ventures to Giti Tire (China) Investment Co., Ltd., and the actual controlling shareholder of Giti Tire (China) Investment Co., Ltd. It is Singapore's Giti Group. In Yinchuan Giti Great Wall Co., Ltd., Giti Company holds 172.55 million yuan, accounting for 70%, and Yinchuan Rubber Factory holds 73.95 million yuan, accounting for 30%. In Yinchuan Giti Tire Co., Ltd., Giti Company holds 272.55 million yuan of shares, accounting for 78.66%, and Yinchuan Rubber Factory holds 73.95 million yuan of shares, accounting for 21.34%. Since then, Yinchuan Rubber Factory has become a foreign-owned company in a sense.

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Dongfeng Tire Factory (1969)

In 1967, China's second automobile manufacturer started construction in Shiyan, Hubei Province, supporting the Dongfeng Tire Factory Construction also started in 1969. Dongfeng Tire Factory is the largest tire factory invested and constructed by the state since the founding of New China. It was a third-tier enterprise formerly affiliated to the Ministry of Chemical Industry. It was designed to be a large-scale enterprise with an annual output of 1 million sets of truck tires. 70% of the tires produced at that time were supplied to the second-tier automobile industry. 30% are sold throughout the country. Huanghai Rubber and Shanghai Chint Rubber Factory have both supported Dongfeng Tire Factory. Dongfeng Tire Factory once formed a joint venture with the Malaysian Golden Lion Group, Dongfeng Golden Lion Tire Company. In 2005, it was managed by the state-owned Double Star Group and later merged and reorganized into Double Star Dongfeng Tire Company.

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Taishan Tire Factory (1970)

Shandong Taishan Tire Co., Ltd. was founded in 1970 and was one of the 58 designated professional tire manufacturers of the former Ministry of Chemical Industry. The enterprise was built with the aid of Qingdao Second Rubber Factory, the predecessor of Qingdao Huanghai Rubber Co., Ltd., and was restructured into "Shandong Taishan Tire Co., Ltd." in 2002.

Since 2016, Taishan Tire has been dragged down by the "interconnection and mutual insurance" model and has been involved in many financial lending disputes. Taishan Tire experienced five auctions in 2019, including three real estate auctions and two equity auctions. Since January 2019, this tire company has been listed as the executor many times, involving huge amounts of money. Starting in 2019, the legal person of Shandong Taishan Tire has been restricted from high consumption.

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Haida Tire (1970)

In 1964, the Sichuan Rubber Factory (the predecessor of Haida Group) officially selected Jianyang. In June 1970, The Sichuan Rubber Factory started to build the factory with local methods. In 1980, it took nearly 10 years for the Sichuan Rubber Factory to fully develop the production capacity of 110,000 sets of tractor tires and 400,000 sets of bicycle tires, with a total industrial output value of more than 7 million yuan.

In 2020, Haid Group has developed from a small factory with an annual output of 110,000 sets of tractor tires to one million sets of all-steel commercial radial tires per year, 9 million semi-steel radial tires per year, and bias ply tires. It is a large enterprise group with an annual production capacity of 1 million sets of commercial tires, sales revenue of 4.4 billion yuan, and export earnings of over 130 million US dollars. As the state-designated and the only large-scale national enterprise in Sichuan Province that integrates R&D, operation and production of commercial vehicle tires and passenger vehicle tires, Haid Group is responsible for the R&D and manufacturing of commercial radial tires and passenger radial tires in western China. heavy responsibility.

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Linglong Tire (1975)

Linglong Tire was founded in 1975, formerly known as Zhaoyuan Tire Manufacturing and Repair Factory. After seven consecutive factory directors in 12 years, the factory is already on the verge of bankruptcy. In 1987, Zhaoyuan Tire Factory welcomed its eighth director, 39-year-old Wang Xicheng. Afterwards, Zhaoyuan Tire Manufacturing and Repair Factory changed its name to Zhaoyuan County Tire Factory, and later to Yantai Tire Factory and Shandong Linglong Rubber Co., Ltd. The company's main business changed from tire retreading and repair to tire production.

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Triangle Tire (1976)

The predecessor of Triangle Tire is Weihai Tire Factory. The factory started construction in 1976 and was officially established in 1978. At the end of 1990, Ding Yuhua was transferred to Weihai Tire Factory as the director. Since then, under his leadership and after decades of continuous efforts, Triangle Tire has finally become China's leading tire company and ranked among the top 15 in the world's tire industry.

Some of these old tire factories are no longer in production due to special reasons, but they are still exerting their residual energy in other aspects. Some factories are still struggling on the front line of production. They have witnessed the transformation of Chinese tires from weak to The history of development. There are now hundreds of tire factories standing in China, including a large number of foreign-invested tire enterprise factories. Modern production equipment has upgraded tire factories into smart manufacturing plants. "Original methods" have become a thing of the past. Many factories with a production capacity of one million or ten million can be put into operation within one year.

Many old tire factories were once symbols of a certain city, carrying the memories of several generations. After completing their historical missions, they turned around and left, leaving a legend to future generations.

This article comes from the author of Autohome Chejiahao and does not represent the views and positions of Autohome.