my country's machine tool industry ushered in a rare opportunity for development

According to statistics, the consumption of machine tools in the Chinese mainland market reached 13.11 billion US dollars, an increase of about 20% year-on-year; machine tool imports were 7.24 billion US dollars, an increase of 11.55% year-on-year, an increase of 1.7 percentage points over the same period of the previous year. In this regard, Wu Bolin, director-general of the China Machine Tool Industry Association, said that China's machine tool consumption accounts for more than 20% of the total global machine tool sales, which is unmatched by any country in the world (the world's machine tool consumption ranks second and third). , the fourth Japan accounted for about 15%, the United States accounted for about 11.6%, Germany accounted for about 10.6%). This provides a rare market opportunity for the development of the machine tool industry.

Driven by strong market demand, the domestic machine tool industry has experienced a boom in production and sales. On the basis of maintaining a growth rate of more than 20% for five consecutive years, its total industrial output value and sales revenue increased by 27.1% and 26.4% respectively in 2006, an increase of 2.3 and 0.9 percentage points higher than the same period of the previous year. Among them, the sales output value of domestic metal processing machine tools (including metal cutting machine tools and metal forming machine tools) has risen to the third place in the world since 2005, reaching 55.2 billion yuan (7.06 billion US dollars) in 2006. The domestic machine tool has won the favor of domestic users again due to the improvement of the technical level, and the domestic market share has risen to 44.8%, an increase of 5.1 percentage points over the same period of the previous year. At the same time, in 2006, the export value of my country's machine tools also reached 1.19 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 44.56%. Domestic machine tools can be said to be popular in both domestic and foreign markets.

In recent years, my country's machine tool manufacturing industry has benefited from the country's revitalization of the equipment manufacturing industry and has made great progress. Among them, the CNC machine tool industry, which leads the current level of machine tool manufacturing technology, is even better.

The level, variety and production capacity of CNC machine tools reflect the country's technological and economic comprehensive national strength. As the strategic equipment of national defense and military industry, CNC machine tools are the most important manufacturing means of various weapons and equipment, and an important guarantee for the modernization of national defense and military equipment. However, it is difficult for the machine tool industry to revitalize the CNC machine tool industry. According to experts, the digital manufacturing technology required for the development of CNC machine tools is the core of advanced manufacturing and the key to realizing independent innovation. Therefore, for the whole industry, revitalizing the CNC machine tool industry is both a strategic opportunity and a serious challenge.

At present, the leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council are highly concerned about the revitalization of the equipment manufacturing industry. The 11th Five-Year Plan has made the revitalization of the equipment manufacturing industry the main content of promoting the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure, and CNC machine tools have become one of the focuses of revitalizing the equipment manufacturing industry. In 2006, the State Council successively issued the "National Medium- and Long-Term Science and Technology Development Plan Outline (2006-2020)" and "The State Council's Several Opinions on Accelerating the Revitalization of the Equipment Manufacturing Industry". , high-speed CNC equipment and CNC systems and functional components are listed as key support development areas.