Business News Agency June 22 hearing In 2010, China's auto production and sales both exceeded 18 million vehicles, not only reelected the world's first, and hit a new high in global history. It is estimated that there will be an increase of 10% to 15% in the auto market in 2011 as a whole. In 2010, the number of cars in China reached 80 million, and it is expected that by 2020, the number of cars in China will exceed 200 million. With the development of the automotive industry, safety and environmental issues will become more prominent. Under the pressure of energy and environmental protection, vigorously promoting the traditional energy-saving and emission-reduction of automobiles and the industrialization of new energy vehicles has become a major issue for the Chinese automobile industry.

During the 11th Five-Year Plan period, the proportion of total vehicle paint production in China to the total amount of paint in the country has also continuously increased, from 6.5% in 2006 to 9% in 2010. In 2010, China's automotive paint production reached 882,000 tons, an increase of 31% year-on-year. The application of environmentally friendly products such as high solids, waterborne, powder, and photocuring continues to grow. In the past two years, in order to cooperate with the automotive industry in energy conservation and emission reduction, the development of environmentally friendly waterborne automotive coatings and the promotion of cleaner production of automotive coating technology have become the focus of automotive coating production companies and coating engineers.