The number of imported machine tools in China decreased significantly

In the first half of 2013, China imported a total of 53,000 machine tools, a year-on-year decrease of 16%; the import amount was US$5.7 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 17.6%; and the import unit price was US$107,000 per unit, a year-on-year decrease of 1.44%.

China's non-metal processing machine tools have a higher level of manufacturing and import volume; the vast majority of imported machine tools are metal processing machine tools. In the first half of 2013, the import value of metal processing machine tools was US$5.25 billion, accounting for 92% of the total import value of all machine tools. The average unit price of imported machine tools is US$107,000, which is nearly 450 times the average export price of US$240. The average unit price of imported metal processing machines is as much as US$137,000, and the average price of domestic metal cutting machine tools exported is only US$317.

"At present, the technological level of the world's machine tools is mainly driven by the production of CNC machine sheets. The development in the next 20 years will also be the case." Luo Baihui, chief researcher of Jinmo Machine Tool Network, believes that further improvement in accuracy, efficiency, automation, and intelligence Based on the network, CNC machine tools are gradually transitioning to processing units and cutting-edge flexible manufacturing systems. After China's machine tool industry has experienced the development process of learning, imitating and independent innovation, there is still a certain gap between accuracy, efficiency, automation, intelligence, environmental protection and Other advanced foreign standards. The lack of high-speed, high-precision, composite, and intelligent high-end numerical Control machine tools and the lack of common key technologies have made the status of the “low-end melee and high-end fall” of the domestic machine tool industry not reversed. At present, the imported products account for 85% of the domestic high-end machine tool market share, while the domestically-used CNC machine tools account for nearly 70% of the simple economical CNC machine tools with low added value.

From the perspective of the import market country, the structure of China's machine tool import market is still dominated by Asia and Europe, with imports accounting for nearly 95% of the total. However, the market structure has been dominated by Asia, which accounted for more than 60% of the past, and it has become equal to Europe and Asia.

In 2013, China's imports of machine tools from Japan fell drastically by 41.6%. The growth rate from the German, U.S., and UK markets was significant. To a certain extent, it was also a substitute for Japanese machine tools. However, due to its high price, it cannot Completely compensates for the vacancy in the Japanese market. The sharp decrease in the Japanese market is also the main reason that the total import volume of China's machine tools has fallen by a large margin compared with the same period of last year.