Revitalize China's equipment manufacturing industry, CNC machine tools must go first (1)

The issuance and implementation of the "Several Opinions of the State Council on Accelerating the Revitalization of the Equipment Manufacturing Industry" (hereinafter referred to as "a number of opinions") are strategic measures to improve China's international competitiveness and achieve a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development of the national economy. The "Several Opinions" regard the development of numerical control equipment and numerical control systems and functional components as one of the 16 key areas for revitalizing the equipment manufacturing industry, which is of great significance for the development of China's machine tool industry.
CNC machine tools are the masters of the equipment manufacturing industry. They are the cornerstone for the modernization of manufacturing technologies and equipment, and strategic equipment for ensuring the development of high-tech industries and the modernization of national defense and military industries. Looking at the revitalization of the 16 key areas of the equipment manufacturing industry, the revitalization of each area requires a large number of advanced CNC machine tools to equip. Such as the development of large-scale thermal power generation and nuclear power plants, the manufacture of large-scale chemical equipment, the development of large-scale marine transportation vessels, the development of large-scale thin-plate hot and cold continuous rolling complete sets of equipment, the development of high-speed trains, new types of subways, and rail transit vehicles, all require a large number of high-speed, precision, and high-efficiency. And special CNC machine tools to manufacture. At the same time, as a strategic equipment for the defense industry, CNC machine tools are the most important means of manufacturing all kinds of weapons and equipment and are an important guarantee for the modernization of national defense and military equipment. Some developed countries in the world have been using high-performance CNC machine tools as strategic materials to strictly control and restrict China's imports of high-performance CNC machine tools.
At present, due to the relative lag in the development of China's CNC machine tools industry, it has restricted the development of the entire equipment manufacturing industry, directly affecting the industrial security of the defense industry. The development experience of equipment manufacturing industry at home and abroad shows that the development of equipment manufacturing industry is based on CNC machine tools. Therefore, it is fundamental, forward-looking, and overall strategic to fully implement the scientific development concept and accelerate the development of China's CNC machine tool industry.
The rapid development of the machine tool industry initially laid the foundation for revitalization
During the "10th Five-Year Plan" period, China's machine tool industry developed rapidly for several consecutive years. By 2005, the output value of China's machine tools ranked eighth in the world from the end of the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" period, and it was ranked third in the world. Among them, in 2005 the output of CNC machine tools reached 60,000 units, which was 4.3 times that of 14,000 units in 2000. In the direction of “high-speed, precision, intelligence, and compounding”, technological innovation and product development have made remarkable progress, and a number of new products such as multi-axis linkage machining centers, composite processing machine tools, and high-speed precision CNC machine tools have been developed. It played an important role. At present, the number of CNC machine tools has reached more than 1,500 varieties. The machine tool industry reorganized through domestic enterprises, and has acquired nine overseas machine tools and tools companies one after another. It has formed a number of large-scale enterprises and enterprise groups with stronger capabilities, such as the annual sales of machine tools of Shenyang Machine Tool (Group) Company and Dalian Machine Tool Group Corporation. Entered the top fifteen of the world's machine tool companies. During the "10th Five-Year Plan" period, the rapid development of China's machine tool industry has initially laid a foundation for the development of the equipment manufacturing industry.
However, from a general point of view, the gap between China's machine tool industry and the world's advanced level is still very obvious: First, domestic high-end CNC machine tools can not meet the domestic development needs in terms of variety, level and quantity, and high-end CNC machine tools are still heavily imported; Secondly, the development of CNC machine tools' functional components and numerical control systems has become lagging behind and has become a bottleneck in the development of China's CNC machine tools industry. Third, the level of technology and equipment of machine tool manufacturing enterprises is not high, and manufacturing capabilities, integrated management and service capabilities cannot meet the requirements of fast-paced market development.
China has become a major machine tool producer, but it is not yet a machine tool manufacturer. From 2002 to 2005, China has become the world's largest machine tool importer for four consecutive years. Despite the continuous increase in sales of domestic machine tools in recent years, the market share of imported machine tools in the domestic market is still as high as 60% by 2005.
Accelerate the pace of revitalization from four aspects
According to the instructions of the State Council leadership on “Developing CNC machine tool development plans and policies and improving manufacturing levels”, in conjunction with implementing the spirit of the State Council No. 8 document, the revitalization of the CNC machine tool industry was accelerated. Under the specific leadership of the Industry Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Machine Tool Association organized experts. , Conducted extensive investigations and studies on the development of the machine tool industry at home and abroad, put forward the "Special Plan for the Development of CNC Machine Tools" (discussion draft), and determined the objectives for revitalization, guidelines, key tasks, and policy measures. After the special plan has been demonstrated and modified, the National Development and Reform Commission is soliciting opinions from relevant departments. The "Special Plan for the Development of CNC Machine Tools" (discussion draft) puts forward the key work of revitalizing the CNC machine tool industry and highlights the following four aspects of work.