Machine Tool Industry Faces Global Challenges

In the new era, the global manufacturing system of the machine tool industry multinational corporations has gradually become a scale. Its expansion throughout the world makes it possible to build R&D systems and production systems by dominating globally advantageous resources, and to play a leading role in the global network, bringing new challenges to domestic companies.

Due to the large amount of foreign investment currently entering China's key infrastructure sectors, a supply chain-type closed monopoly has been formed for the domestic basic spare parts market. Not only does profits pass through this supply chain to China, but it also has significant impact on the safety of the entire industry and even economic security. Impact. At the same time, multinational corporations have shifted from large-scale manufacturing operations to global expansion of R&D, headquarters base establishment, and investment and financing, and can then build an increasingly powerful R&D system and production system by dominating globally advantageous resources.

On June 16, 2011, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the implementation of the "Exceptional Regulations for Strategic Trade Licensing," which excludes China from 44 countries and regions that enjoy trade facilitation measures. With the enhancement of domestic enterprises’ innovative capabilities, governments and enterprises in developed countries such as the United States, Japan, and Germany have increased their awareness of Chinese companies’ prevention and increased their control over the export of advanced technologies and equipment to China. The industrial chain of the machine tool industry is long, and one link is “clamped”. The development of the entire industry is constrained. Overall, the cost of our imports of advanced technology and equipment has risen sharply. According to statistics, the average unit price for import of metal processing machine bed sheets has increased from 67,000 USD in 2007 to 111,000 USD in 2010.

In addition, under the background of no obvious signs of recovery in the global advanced economies, China’s machinery industry will face more challenges in the global competition landscape, frictions will be more frequent, and will further spread from low-end products to high-end products. From product trade links to the institutional environment, from a single "two anti-one protection" trade remedy investigations to intellectual property rights, technical barriers to trade, industrial competitiveness investigation and other means to spread. Before the outbreak of the financial crisis, the domestic market share of the US equipment manufacturing industry, which has been declining, has risen from 67.4% in 2007 to 69.72% in 2010.