In recent years, with the rapid development of electric power, electronics, aerospace, rail transportation, and the automotive industry, China's equipment manufacturing industry has also made considerable progress. However, starting from the second half of 2011, as the global economic development slowed down, equipment manufacturing industry will bear the brunt of the impact, and the impact of the machine tool industry as an “industry mother machine” will become even more pronounced.

In the past two years, negative factors such as overcapacity, inventory pressure, capital shortage, and low economic environment have been accompanied by the Chinese machine tool industry. For more than two years, although the expectation of the industry’s recovery has been urgent, it has not been able to do so. In the industry, we see innovation and progress. We can also see the confusion and embarrassment. For the future vision, entrepreneurs are full of confidence, but they can also feel their anxiety and worry about the current difficult situation.

The machine tool industry companies are looking forward to the turning point in the recent statistics show that in 2013 the machinery industry added value increased by 10.9% over the previous year, an increase of 2.5 percentage points over the previous year. The year-on-year growth rate of main business income grew slowly from month to month, the growth trend was better than expected, and the completion situation was sound. At the same time, the survey data released by the National Bureau of Statistics and China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing recently revealed that in January, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 50.5%, indicating that the basic trend of steady economic growth will not change. Under the general background of steady development of the overall situation, manufacturing fields such as automobiles, electronics, aviation, and rail transit have recovered quickly, and the changes in equipment manufacturing, especially machine tool equipment, in the process of transformation and upgrading have brought about beneficial effects on the machine tool industry. .

When are these favorable factors "transferred" to the machine tool industry? When will the machine tool industry pick up? People in the industry are eagerly looking forward to it. Our reporter recently visited some experts and companies in the machine tool industry. From the perspective of various parties, the industry situation is still grim, and when the machine tool industry is picking up is still unknown.

The plight of enterprises in the machine tool industry The 8th China CNC Machine Tool Show (CCMT2014) returned to Shanghai after an interval of 8 years. CCMT, which has always had a strong influence in the machine tool industry and users, has attracted the attention of exhibitors. At the exhibition, major machine tool manufacturers competed to exhibit their own superior products, and on-site promotional activities were also in full swing. However, under the bustling scene, it can't conceal the fact that exhibitors are not as good as they were in previous years. The declining importance of the industry's important exhibitions, known as the “barometer,” seems to confirm the current sluggish status of the machine tool industry.

In 2013, the machine tool industry continued its trend at the end of 2012 with low growth rates. The contradiction between product structure and market demand in the machine tool industry has improved, but it has not yet been effectively mitigated. Domestic demand for low-end products has been greatly reduced, and demand for medium-to-high-end products has risen slowly. Although the production of major products within the statistical range of the machine tool industry in the third quarter of 2013 all increased year-on-year, the overall situation in the machine tool industry was still severe due to the year-on-year growth rate of the machine tool industry at the end of 2013. The output of some industries also decreased year-on-year. It has been expanded.