2013 China's CNC Machine Tool Market Analysis

China's high-end machine tool market has always been dominated by the United States, Japan, and German companies. The mid-end market is mainly divided by Taiwan's machine tools, mainland machine tools, and Korean machine tools. German machine tools, regardless of machine tool performance or manufacturing process, can be referred to as the “big brothers” of the industry. If they enter the mid-end market, they will have a considerable impact on non-German companies. Chinese domestic machine tools are mainly concentrated in the low-end market. Although Chinese companies gradually move closer to the mid-end market, the mid-end market is still dominated by Taiwan and South Korea. In the long run, the mid-end market is a direction that Chinese companies must explore in the future. Obtaining a place in the mid-end market and stably expanding market share are crucial to the development of the Chinese machine tool manufacturing industry. At the same time, it is also an inevitable step on the way to the high-end market.

Last year, China's imports of 2.4 billion euros became the largest single market for the German machinery industry. China's machinery imports from Germany increased by 14% over the previous year. Martin Karp, chairman of the German Machinery Manufacturers Association, believes that German manufacturers should not overlook the increasingly strong mid-range technology sector, as new industrial countries are increasingly producing their own mid-range technology products. For the Chinese and Indian markets, Karp said that German manufacturers must further focus on mid-range technology.

In May 2012, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice to continue to implement special projects for the development of smart manufacturing equipment. The digital processing workshop has become one of the key support projects.

At the Fourth China Manufacturing Forum held in May, the person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that in the future, China will strengthen and upgrade industrial basic capabilities and strive to improve the development level of the “three-base” industries; strengthen original innovation, integrated innovation and introduction and digestion. Absorb the organic combination of re-innovation; attach importance to market cultivation, strengthen the integration with the user industry, actively develop all-around cooperation with end-users, and constantly improve the first set of policies.

The Ministry of Science and Technology's "Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Manufacturing Informatization Science and Technology Engineering" also pointed out that during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, the overall goal of China's manufacturing informatization science and technology projects is to focus on breakthroughs in a group of leading and innovative ones. Key technologies for manufacturing informatization; efforts to build a number of digital companies, service-oriented manufacturing companies, and industrial service platforms; focus on fostering the development of production-oriented service industries, manufacturing informatization software industries, and related service industries to promote the significant increase in the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. Support the rapid development of local pillars and characteristic industries.