First half of 2009 foreign trade of China's machine tool industry there signs of improvement

2009 first half, China's machine tool industry in the import and export situation is still grim, total import and export volume continued to decline year on year, but slowed down; June monthly import and export the whole industry chain showed positive growth, monthly imports rise significantly; number of large, heavy CNC machine tools Significant increase in the average export unit price; metal processing machine tool import and export markets fell sharply, but South Korea, Mexico and other places the situation is getting better and export, the European machine tool are piling into China; import and export trade is for the better way to enter the general trade mode significantly increase the export proportion of NC machine tools; foreign machine tool import and export share decreased rapidly, foreign investment decreased significantly.

Machine tool industry continued downward trend in import and export Released, according to customs statistics, 1 to 6 months total exports of China's machine tool industry, 2.13 billion U.S. dollars, down 36.2%. Monthly exports increased every month since February began, in June to 380 million U.S. dollars, down 37.5%, chain 4.5%, monthly chain showed a positive growth for two consecutive months. Exports fell in all sectors of the case, the individual industry rebound in exports in more stable state. Monthly machine tool accessories such as the export chain fixture has 4 consecutive months of positive growth, CNC devices and Abrasive Abrasives industry, and 2 months, a total of 3 months of positive growth, and growth rate are larger.

By the policy implications of the domestic market demand, in June machine tool products imports 990 million U.S. dollars, down 3.9%, the chain increased 41.8%, monthly imports increased significantly, the 2009 level over the same period in 2008 since the closest one months of the last 8 months maximum. Mainly metal processing machine tool imports increased quickly, monthly import volume reached 660 million U.S. dollars, up 10.7%. The first half of the industry total amount of 4.83 billion U.S. dollars of imports, down 18.5%, down more than 1 to May cumulative increase of 3.1 percentage points year on year.

Large heavy machine tools market, good performance of foreign trade 2009 years, a large, heavy-duty machine tool imports and exports grew rapidly. In the first half, in the metal processing machine tool exports declining trend over the previous year, the NC Milling , CNC Grinder , NC Gear cutting machines Were up over 50%. Large machine such as gantry Machining Center , CNC milling machines, CNC gantry milling machine, CNC machine tools such as forging or stamping the average export unit price multiplied, respectively, 241%, 413%, 190% and 219%. Heavy machine tools export performance is superior to other products, mainly in recent years of heavy machine tool enterprises in the product structure adjustment, increase the technological transformation efforts, the formation of a group of certain competitive products. In addition, the financial crisis and heavy machine tool industry in the whole level of impact is relatively small.

National policy on stimulating domestic demand, increased infrastructure investment, because of China-made machine tools can not fully meet the market demand, but also the world's machine tool producers provided the opportunity. June machine tool show in China import volume of metal price trend Yang, volume fell 4.0%, the amount of increase of 10.7%, average unit price of imports rose 15.3%. In the first half, machining center, CNC milling machine, CNC gantry milling machine, CNC surface grinder, CNC gear cutting machine tool imports grew 15.0%, 37.6%, 159.8%, 23.4%, 86.3%. One CNC milling machine and CNC gantry milling machine, the average unit price more than doubled. Response to financial crisis, in 2009 the State Council discussed and approved after another ten key industrial restructuring and revitalization plan, the planning period for 2009 to 2011. Restructuring and revitalization of the equipment manufacturing industry is one of them. Recently, a large, heavy-duty machine tools demand more vigorous, a hot spot, the ability of some companies have started or are entering the field. Need to be reminded that enterprises should thoroughly research priorities industrial restructuring and revitalization of planning, extensive research the market for large, heavy-duty machine tools demand a careful analysis of the current heavy-duty machine tool capacity and demand relationship, analyzing the world and our future heavy-duty machine tool market demand, only rational analysis, scientific decision, to avoid excess capacity.