Guilin Rubber began strictly controlling its management of suppliers this year to promote production and operations. First, the company collected basic information about suppliers and set up a database. There are nearly 100 suppliers with annual capital of more than 500,000 yuan ($81,697), in addition to 40 major parts suppliers. The company also requested supplier quality information to conduct evaluations. The company signed strategic agreements to speed up delivery and conducted overall evaluations on supplier production capacity, quality and market credit.