In China, only the government accredited companies can operate the car recycling business, and the government limits only one or few in each city. The facilities and skill of these accredited companies still have long way to go. Therefore they intend to tie up with Japanese companies in order to gain the technical knowhow and the skill. My visit for Beijing and Dalian is related to this issue.

I think what they require can be classified roughly into next three categories; ①offering the facilities and the technique for environmental preservation, ②the construction of managing system over the production, inventory control and distribution network of used and rebuilt car parts, ③classifying resources and efficient collection.

Particularly in China, they had to dispose of the functional parts such as used engines and transmissions into scrap metal in the past. However I was told that they had been able to sell such used parts as rebuilt parts, due to recent amendment of law. So I was impressed with the potentiality of building spare parts network makes business in China.

The car recycling industry in China is certainly prospective industry and this will contribute to build the recycling-oriented society. I was told that the government of China is putting in serious effort to tackle environmental issue, and they allocate considerable sum of funds for related businesses. I am considering to cooperate somewhat with such move in China.