Ginhu tyres, a subsidiary of one of korea's eight major groups, has a history of development for over 50 years since the 1960s. Lake jin tyres is a globalized tyre company, ranked 11th among the world's tire companies in 2011. There are eight major factories worldwide - three in korea, four in china, one in viet nam and another in the united states. There are also four technology research and development centres around the world, located in guangzhou, korea, tianjin, china, akron, united states, and birmingham, united kingdom. As of 2013, around 65 million tyres were produced each year in lake jin and tyre products were exported to more than 220 countries and regions. As a well-known producer of tyres that have been in the chinese market for almost 20 years, china has set up nanjing plant as early as 1994, in addition to its radioactive shanghai marketing headquarters, and completed the construction of nanjing phase ii plant in 2005. In addition, since the establishment of the tianjin factory and the r & d centre in 2006, the longchun factory in 2007, and the construction of the tbr plant in nanjing in 2008, the annual production of the jinhu tyre in china has reached 30 million. In 2013, a cumulative record of 100 million tyres was achieved on the domestic market. Tang lake (china) tyre sales co. Ltd. Established jin lake in shanghai, china, in may 2006 to provide overall responsibility for the sale of products from the four major factories in china and to separate production and distribution. China has established five distribution areas: the north-east, north, east china, south and west. The 15 offices in beijing, shanghai and guangzhou have established a large sales network of nearly 200 first-class distributors, over 2,500 under contract and over 5,000 under sale. The china centre for research and development of cheon lake tyres and the china centre for research and development of jin lake tyres (kctc) are located in the region of tianjin economic technology, which is rapidly emerging from the global tyre industry, with a total wisdom of $36 million, covering 22,000 square metres. Founded in 1995, jinhu tire nanjing plant, a total wisdom choice of $211. 305 million has been developed for more than a decade to become a highly productive domestic tyre producer with 13 million units of capacity per year, which is the base for the production of midday tires in large cars in china。