With the improvement of China's equipment manufacturing technology, machine tools and other industrial products have greatly improved in quality and technology integration. In addition to actively developing the domestic market, machine tool companies have also paid great attention to the international market and actively expanded their international business.
In 2013, the growth rate of China's machine tool product export was higher than that of the country's overall export; the growth of machine tool imports was negative, and the speed was significantly reduced, and the trade deficit was significantly reduced.
In 2013, under the background of the general economic downturn, China's foreign trade in machine tool products has maintained relatively stable growth. Statistics from the General Administration of Customs show that the export value of China's machine tool products in 2013 was 4.379 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 12.56% over the previous year, which was higher than the year-on-year increase of 7.6% in China's total export volume. In 2013, the total import value of China's machine tool products was US$1.102 billion, an increase of 23.62% over the previous year.
In 2013, the deficit in the import and export trade of China's machine tool products was 6.623 billion U.S. dollars, a decrease of 4.186 billion U.S. dollars from the deficit of import and export trade of 10.809 billion U.S. dollars in 2012, a decrease of 38.73%.
Increase in machine tool exports
In 2013, the export value of China's machine tools was US$4.378 billion, an increase of 12.56% year-on-year; the number of exports was 16.6513 million units, an increase of 5.05% year-on-year; the average export price was US$262.93 per unit, an increase of 7.15%.
Except for a large increase in the amount and volume of exports in February, the export growth in other months of the year was lower than the annual growth rate. In the second half of the year, the growth rate of exports was relatively stable, and there was an upward trend from month to month. This, to a certain extent, seems to reflect some signs of recovery in the world economy.
As the current domestic machine tool industry shrinks due to overcapacity, this year's target is to target foreign markets. The target is determined to continue to maintain the first position of machine tool exports in Southeast Asia, and will increase the export of machine tools in the region. In addition, it will also develop new offshore markets. Such as Russia, South America and so on. Cui Peiqiang said that in the past, China's exports of Southeast Asian machine tools mainly to low-end machine tools, and with the economic development in Southeast Asia in recent years, its demand for machine tools is gradually turning to the middle of the current low-end machine tool sales in Southeast Asia .
"For different countries, the demand for different machine tools, the Group continued to adjust the product structure," Cui Peiqiang said that for export countries in Southeast Asia, Thailand attaches great importance to the development of the automotive industry, the demand for lathes; Malaysia attaches great importance to the development of electronic industry, high-end CNC The demand for machine tools is large; while the Indonesian textile industry is developed, there is a large demand for ordinary small machine tools. The country with the largest export revenue last year was Myanmar. This year, the "first bill" of cloud machine exports is also Myanmar.
The CNC machine tool industry in China must adjust its existing industrial structure, and develop high-end products on the basis of existing achievements in the mid-range. On the one hand, it needs to face competitive pressure from foreign products and joint venture products to squeeze the domestic mid-range market. On the other hand, it must increase R&D. ‚ rushed into the high-end market to get rid of the severe situation of being subject to control.
In terms of R&D, the company implements innovative development strategies based on the country's existing special support, with the theme of the enterprise and innovation as its driving force. Given the fact that machine tools are an industry with large investment and low efficiency, they cannot achieve long-term development based on their own efforts. Many companies participate in common technology research and development, while introducing scientific research institutions to participate in the implementation of public-private partnerships (PPP) to promote research and development; the national level needs to increase basic research investment and R & D personnel training.
In 2014, China's CNC machine tools will develop steadily on the basis of 2013. It is expected that the output of CNC machine tools will increase slightly, the import demand is still very large, but the demand is more biased towards high-end products, while the mid-range products will be implemented after the local marketization services in foreign countries. It will also increase. With the rapid growth in demand for key equipment manufacturing industries such as defense, aerospace, high-speed railways, automobiles, and molds, China's CNC machine tools have also achieved rapid development. CNC machine tool technology has achieved high speed, compoundness, precision, and multi-axis. Significant progress and a series of breakthroughs. However, there is still a large gap between CNC machines in foreign countries in accuracy and reliability.
The level, variety, and production capacity of CNC machine tools directly reflect the overall strength of a country's industry, and the birth of CNC machines in China is slightly behind that of the United States and Germany. Nearly half of the world's development has occurred. CNC machines in China are far behind. The domestically produced CNC machine tools of the United States, Japan, and the United States are mainly based on low-grade economical models and mid-range popularized CNC machine tools. 70% to 80% of the market share of CNC machine tools and 90% of CNC systems (popular and advanced models) are occupied by foreign companies. .
Before the middle and lower end products of CNC machine tools, Chinese enterprises had a certain strength, but high-end CNC machine tools are still short boards, and high-end CNC machine tools are necessary for the four fields of aerospace, automotive, marine and power generation equipment manufacturing. The necessary upgrades, despite the implementation of the "high-end CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment," major science and technology projects, and plans to reach 80% of the high-end CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment required by the four major fields by 2020, but only Jiji currently A large-scale, high-efficiency, CNC automatic stamping production line for a machine tool has successfully realized the commercialization of key components and high-end numerical control systems.
