Looking at the Direction of the Transformation of Enterprises from the Development Status of China Machine Tool Industry

China dominates the world machine tool consumer market Global machine tool production bases are mainly divided into three major regions: Asia, the European Union, and the Americas, of which the European Union is the most representative of the European Machine Tool Association, and Asia's major producing countries are China, South Korea, and Japan. The two bases almost occupy The world's GDP, while the three major production bases are also the three major consumer markets.

At present, European countries have a high rate of mutual purchases and form internal regional complementary effects. In Asia, due to the unbalanced level of development of machine tools in various countries, trade in machine tools is frequent and accounts for nearly half of the national consumption; in the Americas, a large number of new industrialized countries have limited output value. A lot of imports.

In 2010, the production value of 28 major machine tool producing countries and regions in the world reached 66.3 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 21% from the same period last year to 54.7 billion U.S. dollars. In the process of recovery of the world machine tool industry, China plays a leading role. China has become the largest machine tool consumer and importer in the world for many years. From 2002 to 2005, imported machine tools accounted for an average of 62% of China's machine tool consumption. During the period from 2006 to 2010, China's domestic machine tool companies and some foreign-funded machine tool companies gradually increased their market share. In 2010, imported machine tools accounted for 33% of consumption.

Chinese machine tool industry is "large but not strong"

As the world’s largest machine tool producer, importer, and consumer, the early machine tools were state-owned, with poor production efficiency and a low export ratio. However, the domestic machine tool companies have vigorously reformed and eliminated redundant workers, and they have seen a large number of risers “simple personnel and high output value”. After the incidents involving private enterprises, the situation has improved. At the same time, with the gradual study of Japan and the United States’ technological design concepts, the major markets have been invested in high-end industries such as automobiles, molds, and electronics, attracting Japan and Taiwan by adopting technical cooperation or introducing foreign capital. Enterprises, so that the machine tool industry has been greatly developed.

However, compared with other manufacturing powerhouses, China's machine tool industry still has a clear gap in terms of structure, level, R&D, and service capabilities. For example, although the market share of domestic machine tools in 2009 has risen to 70.1%, but the import of machine tools is still up to 5.9 billion US dollars, most of the imported products are high-end CNC machine tools (including complete sets of production lines).

It can be seen that, for the demand of high-end products, domestic machine tools have long been used for non-required, low-end products have excess capacity, and high-end products mainly rely on imports.

Machine tool host companies are large but not strong, small and unrefined; supporting capabilities are weak, and the industrial division of labor is not clear; independent innovation capability is weak, and basic, key, and common technologies are not yet fully mastered; the development of high-performance CNC systems and functional components lags behind the mainframe. The corresponding industrial chain system for the development of CNC machine tools is still not perfect; the engineering integration capability is weak, and the complete production lines for key manufacturing industries such as automobiles are still in their infancy; there is a shortage of high-end talents such as R&D, advanced mechanics, and compound management, all of which are constrained. The machine tool industry is fast and sustainable.

Optimistic prospects for industrial development It is reported that at present, the domestic automobile industry accounts for 70% of the consumption of the machine tool industry, but such a huge market is accounted for nearly 80% of imported machine tools. However, this also shows from the side that the future of China's machine tool industry has a large market share.

In October 2010, the State Council promulgated the "Decision to Accelerate the Cultivation and Development of Strategic Emerging Industries." It pointed out that active development of intelligent manufacturing equipment with digital, flexible and system integration technologies as the core, with high-end CNC machine tools as the most important . Throughout the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the development of high-end equipment manufacturing will greatly promote the rapid growth of the machine tool industry.

According to the “High-end CNC Machine Tools and Basic Manufacturing Equipment” special plan, by 2020, about 80% of the high-end CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment required for aerospace, shipbuilding, automobile, and power generation equipment manufacturing will be based in China; in addition to major special projects that have been launched. In addition to setting clear goals for the production of high-end CNC machine tools, high-end CNC machine tools have also been incorporated into the key projects of the “12th Five-Year Plan” for high-end equipment manufacturing. In the future, the development space of China's machine tool industry is very broad.

At the same time, Li Jingming, deputy secretary-general of the China Machine Tool & Tooling Industry Association, learned that energy, rail transportation, high-speed railways, and defense and military industries in the downstream industries will carry out large-scale and in-depth periods during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period and even longer periods. Structural adjustment.

Experts predict that in the context of economic development, strong support of national policies, and revitalization of upstream and downstream industries, the robust demand for the machine tool industry will maintain rapid growth, but the demand for high-end CNC machine tools will continue to rise, and the demand for medium and low-end machine tool products will increase. It will continue to decline.

Upgrade and reform should focus on product structure From the current situation, China's machinery industry products and industrial chain, although high-end, mid-range, low-end products correspond to different markets and user groups, but the product has the same problem, that is, product quality and efficiency is not high. For example, in the machine tool manufacturing industry, whether it is a high-end machine tool that meets high-precision requirements or an ordinary, large-volume, wide-range medium- and low-range machine tool, it is first necessary to ensure the quality and safety of the machine tool product. Therefore, in the traditional machinery industry, the key to its industrial upgrading lies in improving product quality and efficiency.

According to Long Xingyuan, chairman of Qinchuan Machine Tool Co., Ltd., the upgrading of demand structure marked by consumption upgrade is one of the prominent characteristics of the current machine tool industry. This requires the overall transformation and upgrading of the machine tool industry. In addition to product efforts, it is necessary to combine design and consulting. And sales services and other aspects. Cheng Fenglan, chief engineer of Qiqihar Machine Tool Co., Ltd., also stated that “Big but not strong, wide and not refined is the common problem of domestic products. The high-end machine tools needed by key industries still need to rely on imports.”

At this stage, the growth of China's machine tool industry is extensive, its structure is not reasonable, and its innovation ability is not strong. In the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, the machine tool industry must require high-end development; at the same time, as the post-crisis era, developed countries re-emphasize the machine tool industry and trade. With the rise of protectionism, there are many challenges faced by the Chinese machine tool industry. The solution is to use technological innovation as a means to enhance the level of management innovation, change the mode of development, adjust the industrial and product structure, and pay attention to precision, high efficiency and product reliability. Efforts will be made to complete industrial upgrading and realize the transition from being "large but not strong to strong and big."