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With China becoming the world's largest producer and seller of automobiles for several consecutive years, the rapid increase in car ownership, and the accelerated pace of car updates, a large number of eliminated vehicles have provided abundant resources for the automotive parts remanufacturing industry. The release of relevant standards and policies indicates that China's automotive parts remanufacturing has entered a stage of standardized development. The automotive parts remanufacturing industry will enter a period of large-scale promotion and development.

In mid December 2014, the National Standardization Administration issued the "Quality Inspection Method for Remanufactured Blanks" and the "Quality Management Requirements for Remanufactured Mechanical Products". At the same time, the National Development and Reform Commission, together with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other four ministries, announced the list of 10 qualified pilot enterprises for promoting remanufactured products, as well as the models and promotion prices of remanufactured products. At the same time, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance and other departments jointly launched the "trade in" activity for remanufactured products nationwide. According to the activity requirements, eligible remanufactured products such as car engines and transmissions will be subsidized at a rate of 10% of the replacement price.

In late December 2014, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice on further improving the pilot demonstration work of remanufacturing of mechanical and electrical products, requiring the competent departments of industry and information technology at all levels to strengthen the management of the remanufacturing industry of mechanical and electrical products in conjunction with relevant departments, encourage local remanufacturing production enterprises and their products to be publicly disclosed online, and urge relevant units to strictly implement national industrial policies, regulations, systems, and technical standards. Guide enterprises to implement the labeling requirements for remanufactured products; Guide remanufacturing production enterprises to establish an information management platform for remanufactured products, to achieve "tracking" of remanufactured products and "traceability" of old parts.

The Notice clearly encourages all regions to use funding channels such as energy conservation and emission reduction to support projects such as upgrading and transforming remanufacturing technology, and accelerate the pace of remanufacturing industrialization. Intensify support for enterprises and products listed in the "Catalog of Remanufactured Products", establish a supply and demand docking platform for remanufactured products, coordinate and promote government agencies, enterprises, institutions, and organizations to prioritize the procurement of remanufactured products, organize remanufactured product promotion meetings, popularize knowledge of remanufacturing of mechanical and electrical products, and drive and encourage consumers to use remanufactured products. Regions with the necessary conditions should actively promote the value-added tax reduction and exemption policies for remanufactured products that enjoy comprehensive utilization of resources, and actively support the implementation of the "trade in" product subsidy policy.

Xie Jianjun, Secretary General of the Automotive Parts Remanufacturing Branch of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, stated that a series of positive news shows that China's automotive parts remanufacturing has entered the stage of standardized development, which will promote the rapid development of China's automotive parts remanufacturing industry.

The market space is huge. In recent years, China's automotive industry has maintained an average annual development rate of over 10%. It is estimated that by 2016, the number of civilian cars in China will reach 200 million. According to the ratio of car ownership to the development of remanufacturing industry in developed countries, China's automotive parts remanufacturing industry will usher in a good market development prospect.

It is understood that remanufactured products account for up to 50% of the automotive repair and parts market in European and American countries. With such a market share, there is huge market space for remanufactured products in China's future automotive aftermarket.

Xie Jianjun introduced that although China's automobile parts remanufacturing industry started relatively late, it has developed rapidly. The number of enterprises engaged in remanufacturing has increased from one at the beginning to over a hundred at present, and the output value has risen from less than 50 million yuan in 2005 to 8 billion yuan at present. The number of employees has also increased from less than a thousand to more than 50000 at present, and the scale and output value of the industry have significantly increased.

Compared with traditional waste metal recycling and disposal methods, remanufacturing of automotive parts can recover about 70% of the added value contained in scrapped products; Compared with original manufacturing, remanufacturing can save energy consumption by 80%, materials by more than 70%, and reduce manufacturing costs by 30% -50%.

At present, the scope of component remanufacturing in China is limited to the "five major assemblies" - internal combustion engine, gearbox, generator, starter, and steering gear. Among them, internal combustion engines have the greatest potential for remanufacturing.

It is understood that the remanufacturing of internal combustion engines is one of the key areas in the remanufacturing of automotive components. The remanufacturing of internal combustion engines not only reduces waste and has significant environmental benefits, but also saves energy and materials, resulting in significant economic and social benefits. According to the data, most of the important components such as cylinder blocks and crankshafts of scrapped internal combustion engines have local failures. Through remanufacturing and processing such as forming and repairing, their size, accuracy, and performance can be restored without changing their shape and material.

Xing Min, Executive Vice President and Secretary General of the China Internal Combustion Engine Industry Association, stated that the internal combustion engine industry is an important basic industry in China, with a long industrial chain, high degree of correlation, wide employment opportunities, and significant consumer demand. Implementing the remanufacturing of internal combustion engines can not only achieve the resource utilization of a large number of failed products, but also help cultivate new economic growth points, accelerate the development of circular economy, and build a resource-saving and environmentally friendly society.

The industry believes that the agglomeration development of China's parts remanufacturing industry will become a trend. The automotive parts remanufacturing industry is supported by certain industrial technologies, and the clustered development helps to specialize in recycling, dismantling, cleaning, remanufacturing, and the construction of public platforms, forming a complete industrial chain.

Xie Jianjun introduced, "The National Development and Reform Commission, together with relevant departments, is promoting the construction of demonstration bases for the remanufacturing industry. The State Council has also proposed in its circular economy development strategy and recent action plan to plan the centralized construction of 5-10 demonstration bases for the remanufacturing industry of components

It is reported that in the late 1990s, China proposed the establishment of a remanufacturing system. In 1998, China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Jinan Fuqiang Power Co., Ltd. was established, becoming the first domestic internal combustion engine remanufacturing enterprise. In the following 10 years, China's automotive parts remanufacturing industry gradually developed and became a scale.

The achievements of the development of China's parts remanufacturing industry are obvious to all, but as an emerging industry, remanufacturing still has many problems, "Xie Jianjun said. If remanufactured products have not been widely recognized by consumers, the sources and sales channels of old parts for remanufactured products are not smooth enough, the level of remanufacturing technology and management is not high, the quality of products is uneven, and relevant regulations such as scrapped car recycling management urgently need to be revised. The relevant management system urgently needs to be improved, and the technical standards are not yet perfect.

How to accelerate the development of China's automotive parts remanufacturing industry, Xie Jianjun believes that firstly, a standardized and smooth reverse logistics system standard should be established as soon as possible. Due to the non-standard and unsmooth recycling channels for old products, a large number of old products are directly treated as waste, making it difficult to ensure that enough old products are returned to the remanufacturing enterprise, resulting in the enterprise's remanufacturing production line often being in an "idle" or "semi idle" state.

Secondly, we need to strengthen our awareness of the remanufacturing industry chain. Under the overall framework of "trade in", automobile parts remanufacturing enterprises must establish a good product traceability and tracking system to investigate the usage, life cycle, and exit time of products. Combining reverse logistics system to maintain product replacement relationship with customers.

Thirdly, automobile parts remanufacturing enterprises should move forward in unity. The remanufacturing industry of automotive parts in China is in its infancy and requires mutual exchange and support among automotive parts remanufacturing enterprises to seek common development.

Industry insiders suggest that relevant government departments should take various measures, strengthen supervision, strictly control the quality inspection of remanufactured automotive parts, use policies to guide consumer attitudes, and increase publicity efforts to enable more consumers to understand and use remanufactured automotive parts.