Abstract Although the output value of China's machine tool industry has ranked first in the world and has shown rapid growth for ten consecutive years, the structural contradictions in the whole industry have become increasingly prominent. At the 6th executive director (expansion) meeting of the 6th China Machine Tool & Tool Industry Association held recently,...
Although the output value of China's machine tool industry has ranked first in the world and has shown rapid growth for ten consecutive years, the structural contradictions in the entire industry have become increasingly prominent.
At the 6th executive director (expansion) meeting of the 6th China Machine Tool & Tool Industry Association held recently, industry insiders said that the machine tool market situation this year is very serious.
Export declines, imports increase Statistics show that in the first ten months of 2012, China's machine tool products exported a total of 7.68 billion US dollars, an increase of 5.7%. Among them, the export of metal processing machine tools was 2.27 billion US dollars, an increase of 16.6%. Among metal processing machines, the export of gold cutting machine tools was US$1.56 billion, up 16.1% year-on-year; the export of forming machine tools was US$710 million, up 17.7% year-on-year. Most of the exports of other types of products showed year-on-year growth.
In this regard, Wang Liming, executive vice president of China Machine Tool Industry Association, said that export growth was a foregone conclusion last year. The factors driving the growth of exports are: insufficient domestic market demand, enterprises to increase the development of international markets, coupled with the recovery of equipment demand in the European and American markets and the re-enactment of industrial policies to revitalize equipment manufacturing and ease employment pressure.
However, Wang Liming also said that according to the monthly export data of machine tool products, the growth rate has gradually declined from double-digit growth at the beginning of last year to single digits, and negative growth in August and October last year, the trend is clearly in the downward channel.
In this regard, Huang Zhao, the chairman of the association and chairman of Wuhan Heavy Duty Machine Tool Group, confirmed that the heavy machine tool industry has actually started to decline significantly since last year. Orders have decreased, inventory has increased, and users have delayed delivery or even abandoned advance payment.
In addition, the cumulative import of China's machine tool products in the first ten months of last year increased by 2.1% year-on-year, and the recent four consecutive months of growth rate are positive growth. The data shows that from January to October 2012, machining centers, grinding machines, special processing machines, lathes, forming or stamping machines ranked the top five in all types of metal processing machine tools. Among them, the processing center imported 42,000 units, worth US$4.74 billion, accounting for more than 50% of the imports of metal cutting machine tools, and 41.3% of the imports of metalworking machine tools.
Among the imported machine tool products, 70% are from Japan, Germany and Taiwan, of which Japan has a share of 38%, followed by South Korea, Italy, the United States, Switzerland, Singapore, Spain and France.
Structural contradiction It is worth noting that the China Machine Tool Industry Association's research on key enterprises shows that although the machine tool market is generally weak, the medium and high-end CNC machine tools and corresponding supporting products have not seen a significant decline, and the demand for non-standard and personalized products has shown a growing trend. In the main processing steps of key components such as national defense military workers, domestic high-end machine tool products account for a small share, and quite a number of problems exist. Domestic machine tools currently have less than 20% satisfaction, and the rest rely on imports.
In this regard, the industry analysts believe that in our medium and high-end products, there has not been a strong market competitiveness, especially in the field of high-end products, there are not many real market applications, and even quite Some of the technological innovations have been stuck in the stage of samples, exhibits and test products for a long time, and have not been fully market-proven, let alone form market competitiveness.
Chen Huiren, deputy secretary-general of China Machine Tool Industry Association, pointed out to the media such as China United Business Daily that this is the result of China's machine tool enterprises' "heavy hardware and light software." Among the key enterprises tracked by the association, more than 90% have implemented large-scale technological transformation in recent years, especially in large and heavy areas, and most of the investment is used for hardware construction of factories, equipment, etc., while in technology infrastructure and deep technology. The investment in soft power construction such as research and innovation ability training is relatively insufficient, resulting in products concentrated in the middle and low-end, general-purpose and homogenized.
Product homogenization often coexists with price wars. Major companies such as Germany and Japan have launched new strategies for the Asian market, especially the Chinese market, that is, extending down on the basis of high-end leadership and focusing on expanding the mid-end market. These trends have further exacerbated the difficulties of the domestic machine tool industry.
Transformation and upgrading is imminent For such industry dilemmas, Chen Huiren pointed out that China's machine tool industry as a whole is still in the middle and low end of the international division of labor and the industrial chain. The past rapid growth has relied more on the strong pull of domestic market demand and the release of corporate institutional mechanisms. The development of energy, the relative advantages of labor costs and the strong support of national industrial policies. The role of technological progress and management innovation is second.
Chen Huiren said that the economic development environment and growth factors that we used to rely on have already occurred and will continue to undergo profound changes. The long-term development model and business strategy of industry development are also rapidly losing their foothold. Not only do we need to get rid of the current operational difficulties, but we also need to transform and upgrade in the new development environment.
Chen Huiren believes that enterprises need to focus on several relationships, one is the relationship between short-term interests and long-term interests; the second is the relationship between scale expansion and product level; the third is the relationship between hardware investment and software construction; the fourth is the relationship between product development and industrialization. .
Such transformation and upgrading is also the need of the country to develop strategic emerging industries. Wang Weiming, deputy director of the Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that it has been determined that the technological transformation of enterprises previously under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will rise to the height of central planning. The industrial development environment of CNC machine tools will get better and better.
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