How can the Chinese machine tool industry escape the "winter" cold weather?

China is a big machine tool manufacturer, but the machine tool has always been the import and export deficit industry. In 2011, the deficit in the import and export of machine tools further widened. The direct reason was that imports increased significantly. Both the growth rate and the base of imports were greater than exports. China's imported products were mainly high-value mid-to-high-end gold-cutting machine tools and forming machine tools. The largest machine tool products are tool props and abrasives, and a considerable part of them are low-price, low-end products and raw material exports. The difference in import and export product prices will not help shrink the deficit.

It is known in the industry that due to the low degree of innovation in China's high-end products and the generally low level of industrialization, profit levels are not high; while low-grade machine tools (including economical CNC machine tools) have lower depreciation due to fixed assets, and the technology is mature. Larger, high production efficiency, and relatively profitable, but this is not the direction of the development of the machine tool industry, to accelerate the industrialization of medium and high-grade gold-cutting machine tools, expand the market share of medium and high-grade gold-cutting machine tools, is to obtain greater business The fundamental guarantee of profit.

In contrast, changes in the product structure of the forming machine are more reasonable. First, the growth rate of its output value is much higher than the output growth rate. Among them, the average unit price of products has increased from 136,400 yuan per unit in the same period of last year to 216,000 yuan per year this year, and the growth rate has reached 60.3 percent. The sharp rise in the price of a single unit reflects the great changes in the product structure of the forming machine tools and has also yielded considerable profits.

According to the statistics of the Machine Tool Industry Association, profits from China's metal forming machine tools increased by more than 50% from January to May 2011, while output grew at a rate of 7% year-on-year (including the growth of CNC machine tools by 24.65%). The growth rate of output value reached 40.1%. .

Another outstanding phenomenon in the first half of this year was that orders for heavy-duty and large-scale machine tools fell significantly. In the past, Kunming Machine Tools and Qiqihar Machine Tool Co., Ltd., which had once made industry colleagues jealous, were not satisfied. According to report, the operating income of Qiqihar No. 2 Machine Tool in the first half of the year was only flat with the same period of last year.

Some companies stated that some orders that have already been completed have already appeared that users are not in a hurry to pick up the goods, and even expressly demand delays in delivery.

In the future market competition, the international machine tool industry giant will further attack the Chinese machine tool market with high-tech and low-price mid-range machine tool products assembled with high-tech. Therefore, China's machine tool industry must make efforts in the field of high-end machine tools as soon as possible to accelerate the pace of advance to the high-end market. According to the “12th Five-Year Plan” of the machine tool industry, by 2015, it is necessary to strive to make the domestic market share of domestic CNC machine tools reach 70%, and the domestic market share of medium-to-high-end CNC systems will increase from 20% to 50%. The domestic market share of components increased from 5% to 20%.

It can be seen that enterprises in China's machine tools industry should speed up the transformation of development methods, and unswervingly follow the development path that focuses on connotative development and technology-driven development, and continue to enhance the overall competitiveness of enterprises.