"Import one side down" has become the normal state of China's machine tool foreign trade

With the rapid development of the Chinese economy, the demand for machine tools continues to grow. However, mid-to-low end is China's position in the global manufacturing industry value chain, and the number of imported machine tools is increasing every year, becoming a major input for high-end manufacturers' product costs. According to relevant data, China's manufacturing has accounted for 14% of global manufacturing. Since 2002, China has been the largest consumer and importer of machine tools for ten consecutive years. Last year, the output value of China's machine tool industry also ranked first in the world, but high-end CNC machine tools still have to rely on imports. The CNC systems and functional components of medium-to-high-end CNC machine tools mainly come from abroad. However, "import one-sided" has become the normal state of China's machine tool foreign trade in recent years, especially high-end machine tool products.

In the world machine tool industry, excellent "Made in Germany" is Germany's pride and the world's praise for them. Made in Europe, it is also characterized by high quality and high technology. The European machine tool industry has maintained its leading position in the world machine tool market for many years thanks to its high degree of innovation, diversification and precision products. Although Japan's machine tool industry in Asia experienced a full "frustrated" situation, it still does not affect the status of Japan's machine tool power. Therefore, although some of the world’s manufacturing powers, including the United States, view manufacturing as a sunset industry, it is undeniable that there is a gradient shift in the world’s manufacturing industry. However, the former machine tool powers apparently did not give up their own in the manufacturing industry. The status.

In fact, China has always been a shortage in the development, production, and manufacturing of high-end machine tools. Technical barriers and difficult R&D roads and acceptance of market tests are also the "challenge" of China's high-end machine tools. Although the market share and numerical control rate of China's machine tool products have been continuously increasing in recent years, China still needs a lot of imports from abroad, especially from Europe.

In fact, the middle-end products of China's machine tool industry are also surrounded by "foreign manufacturing." According to analysts of China Netcom Mold Network, although the parameters of home-made ordinary machine tools can meet the requirements, due to lack of reliability and precision, a considerable part of China's mid-range machine tools must also be imported from foreign countries. Foreign countries occupy the commanding heights of high-end technology and product exports. Huaxia Mould Network analyst said that Japan, Germany and other high-end machine tools are restrictions on exports, for example, DMG's high-end five-axis linkage machine tools to limit exports to China, and even high-end technical personnel to the field of employment is also limited, They worry that the loss of people will accompany the outflow of technology.

Although, in the past two years, under the background of the rapid development of China's machine tool industry, China's self-developed heavy-duty, ultra-heavy-duty machine tool products, once again rang the door to the limit of the world's largest specifications, also has a number of independent knowledge Property rights, and the level of technology is close to the world's advanced level of heavy machine tool products, however, the whole machine depends on imports, key functional parts and core components rely on imports is the status of China's high-end equipment manufacturing industry, in this case, the original innovation Engage, but it is difficult. There is still a big gap between the domestic high-end numerical control system and foreign advanced level, the hardware and software platform of high-end numerical control system, digital total? Q technology, product reliability technology, high-speed, high-precision, multi-channel, composite processing technology, etc., are all we need to work hard to catch up. Analysts of Huaxia Mould Network stated that in order to strengthen the construction of basic education, innovation does not happen overnight. It requires in-depth knowledge and absorption of knowledge. At the same time, the international technical barriers have once again reminded us that technology cannot be introduced. Ultimately, the production of high-end machine tools depends on our own strength. This is also a great challenge.

Faced with the rapid growth of domestic demand and the “partitioning” of high-end foreign machine tools on the market, the government and enterprises are deeply aware of the importance and urgency of developing high-end machine tools. In recent years, China has successively introduced a series of measures to adjust and revitalize and encourage policies. The development environment for high-end equipment manufacturing has been continuously optimized, the capacity for industrial innovation has been significantly enhanced, and the level of science and technology has increased substantially. Breakthroughs from low-end to high-end have begun in many fields. However, the road ahead is rugged and long.