From the point of data, China's machine tool products demand is objective existence, just domestic machine tool enterprises cannot fully meet; If can do basic balance of imports and exports, China's machine tool industry can add $13.4 billion in sales last year, nearly one hundred billion yuan. China machine tool industry could low-end excess capacity into to meet the needs of users' high-end 'capacity, especially in the features and can focus on numerical control system, and other areas of the base product, shorten the gap, is China's machine tool industry competitiveness will be improved obviously, the international status of China machine tool industry is sure can be further improved.

    Relevant data show that in February 1, 2012-111000 sets of metal-cutting machine tool production in our country, fell 11.90% year on year; 23000 sets of CNC machine tool production, fell 20.70% year on year, the industry in the doldrums. In the first quarter of 2012 new orders continue to reduce many machine tool enterprises has become a common phenomenon, the industry does not seem to be out of the 2011 years since the second half in the trend of China machine tool industry association executive vice President of liang kung recently in an interview also points out that in 2012, there are still some favorable factors in addition to the policy level, industry also faces unfavorable factors: "the market demand is not optimistic, the overall low-standard products face more serious situation. At the same time, the international well-known enterprises to speed up the layout of China, upscale product market competition is more intense." Decline in market demand and the change of demand structure brings to the machine tool industry is very serious situation, and facing the industry during the "twelfth five-year" from large to strong "strategic shift milestones of heavy task, the current complicated situation for many companies dare not take lightly.

    Import and export deficit attention again

    "In 2011 China's machine tool industry import for $20.7 billion, while exports was $7.3 billion, import and export trade deficit of $13.4 billion." Compared to the $660.65 billion of gross industrial output value and 32.1% of growth, the import and export of machine tool industry huge deficit seems to be more can cause the China machinery industry federation, executive vice President of Cai Weici attention, "nc machine tools in China last year the average export price of just $33000 / set, and imports the unit price is $219000 / set, export unit price only 15% of the imports."

    Relevant data show that in 2011 machine tool product imports up 29.3% from 2010. Among them, the metal processing machine imported us $13.24 billion, an increase of 40.6% over the previous year, much higher than domestic metal processing machine tool production growth rate of 26%. Domestic metal processing machine tools in the domestic market share to reduce about one percent over the previous year.

Cai Weici said: "from the point of data, China's machine tool products demand is objective existence, just domestic machine tool enterprises cannot fully meet; if you can achieve the basic balance of imports and exports, China's machine tool industry can add $13.4 billion in sales last year, nearly one hundred billion yuan. China machine tool industry could low-end excess capacity into to meet the needs of users' high-end 'capacity, especially in the feature and can focus on numerical control system, and other areas of the base product, shorten the gap, is China's machine tool industry competitiveness will be improved obviously, the international status of China machine tool industry we can further improve."

    Obviously, on the demand structure, high-grade CNC machine tool market demand is still strong, home is far from satisfaction. Especially high-end machine tools are still high levels of dependence on abroad, substantial decrease in machine tools and perfection of the market demand. Liang kung thinks, "strong import growth on the one hand, this is because the country's economic structure, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of domestic market demand for machine tool product level rapid ascension; on the other hand is because the machine tool industry technology innovation and adjustment of product structure can't keep up with the pace of the market demand level upgrade." Since the second half of 2011, industry backbone enterprises generally reflect, high-grade products and special demand is still strong, but ordinary products market demand decreased obviously. This change cause the loss of industry many enterprises orders, inventory and wip increase, a tighter capital turnover. On the manufacturing capacity, characterized by a high grade product and plane gap, common products surplus.

    The change of demand structure is also directly affect the enterprise's profit structure, kunming machine tool has published annual reports highlighted this: machine tool business revenue of 1.548 billion yuan, up 14.21% from a year earlier, "but because of a sharp contraction in the second half of the market demand, product demand structure change makes the company's gross margin low digital display horizontal boring machine series product sales relative growth, gross margin fell 2.91% to 25.77%; gross profit is 399 million yuan, edged up only 2.62%." Annual report also pointed out that "in the fourth quarter as the market is slowing demand, orders, user delay delivery, lead to sharp increase in inventory, increase the operation cost money. In the fourth quarter of the new CNC machine orders is only 042 million yuan." Double spindle machining center