In 2009, China's machinery industry performed well, but there are still three major problems in the environment where structural adjustment needs to be promoted, the foundation is not strong, and the high-end equipment is localized.

　　According to Xinhua News Agency reported on January 27, China's machinery industry performed well in 2009. Despite the impact of the international financial crisis, the added value of the machinery industry in 2009 increased by 13.8% over 2008, which was 2.8 percentage points higher than the growth rate of 11.0% of the national industry.

　　However, it should not be overlooked that the current development of the machinery industry is bittersweet, and there are still many outstanding problems that need to be resolved.+

　　Wang Ruixiang, president of the China Machinery Industry Federation, said that from the perspective of the industry's own development, the most prominent problem at present is that structural adjustment needs to be promoted. Although China's machinery industry has developed rapidly, most of products are still big road goods, and there are still many gaps compared with the international advanced level.

　　“The growth rate of demand for key products such as power generation equipment, metal rolling mills and metallurgical equipment in China drsignificantly opped last year. This is a signal to be vigilant, indicating that it is difficult for the machinery industry to rely on the rapid growth of traditional product demand to support its own development.” Wang Ruixiang said "In the future, we must accelerate the pace of industrial restructuring and upgrading, increase the technological content and added value of products, and expand the growth space of the industry."

　　Another structural problem in the machinery industry is that the foundation is not strong. Cai Weici, executive vice president of the China Machinery Industry Federation, said that large castings and forgings, basic components, processing aids and special raw materials are still the soft underbelly of China's machinery industry. Taking wind power equipment as an example, although China's total assembly capacity has been surplus, key components such as bearings cannot be completely produced independently.

　　Cai Weici said that the equipment manufacturing adjustment and revitalization plan promulgated in 2009 proposed to "compact the foundation,"has been in slow progress. This aspect is due to the fact that practical and effective support measures have yet to be introduced. On the other hand, the original complete basic technology research and development system of the machinery industry have ceased to exist, and now the common basic technology lacks a strong innovation platform.

　　In terms of the industrial development environment, the environment for the localization of high-end equipment in China is still not ideal. Wang Ruixiang said that it is still not uncommon for domestic equipment bidding to discriminate against domestically produced equipment. Some users forcibly require localized mainframes to use their designated imported parts and materials, or to reduce the price of domestically produced equipment in equipment procurement, or to exaggerate the twists and turns in the localization process, even higher than the international standard of similar products. The unrealistic demands increase the difficulty of localization. Without an order, it is difficult for equipment manufacturers to research and develop in certain areas.

　　"Since 2006, the state has clearly proposed to encourage the use of domestically produced first (sets) equipment. The revitalization plan of 2009 has once again emphasized this point, but the actual support policy has not yet been introduced, indicating that this problem is indeed more complicated." Cai Weici Say.

　　The severe export situation is also an important issue facing the current machinery industry. In 2009, the machinery industry earned a total of US$195.8 billion in foreign exchange exports, down 19.25% from 2008. The import and export surplus dropped sharply from US$476.69 billion in 2008 to US$14.9 billion, highlighting the weakness of China’s weak international competitiveness.

　　Lu Renqi, executive vice president of China Machinery Industry Federation, said that although the global economy is showing signs of recovery, the economic recession will not end in the short term. The emerging markets we are exploring have limited demand. Some developing countries are very vigilant to me and files Anti-dumping lawsuits. Even if the economy recovers in a few years, exports will rise, but it is impossible to restore the glory of continuous export of mechanical products in the past decade.

　　Lu Renqi suggested that the current machinery industry enterprises should optimize the product structure to meet the needs of the domestic high-end market, and replace some of the imports to increase the added value of export products, and achieve the transition from the expansion of the weight of the injection to the improvement of the quality; while striving to consolidate the traditional market of United States, Japan and Europe, we are actively exploring emerging markets. At the same time, we must continue to improve our ability to deal with trade frictions.