After decades of development, China's machine tool industry has already solved problems from scratch and from small to large. Data show that in 2010, the domestic machine tool industry completed a total industrial output value of 553.68 billion yuan. If we say that due to the financial crisis in Japan, Germany, and other manufacturing-developed countries, the production scale of machine tools has dropped significantly. This made China first ascend to the throne of the world's largest production machine tool in 2009. Then the data in 2010 will prove again. The strong development power of the Chinese machine tool industry.

With the "National Medium and Long-Term Plan for Scientific and Technological Development", CNC machine tools have been listed as one of the 16 major projects, further establishing the importance of the machine tool industry in the national economy. The machine tool industry has focused on the key development areas of the country and strengthened product innovation and development of special planes. It has achieved effective breakthroughs in precision manufacturing and limit manufacturing, and upgraded the technical grades of key products such as large and heavy-duty CNC machine tools and 5-axis linkage machine tools. And level.

At present, domestic high-end CNC machine tools have begun to enter the country's key development areas and the field of national defense and military construction. In the development of the national economy, high-end CNC machine tools that are urgently needed are excessively dependent on imports, and are gradually improving. In 2009, the market share of domestic metalworking machine tool output value continued to increase, reaching 70.1%; the domestic market share of CNC machine tool production reached 62%.

Large but not strong still highlights the experts pointed out that the current world machine tool technology level, is to promote the production of CNC machine sheet machine as the mainstream, the development of the next 20 years will still be the case. On the basis of further improving accuracy, efficiency, automation, intelligence, and networking, the company has gradually transitioned to processing units and cutting-edge flexible manufacturing systems. While the Chinese machine tool industry has experienced the development process of learning, imitating, and independent innovation, there is still a considerable gap between accuracy, efficiency, automation, intelligence, environmental protection, and foreign advanced level.

The lack of high-speed, high-precision, compound, and intelligent high-level numerically-controlled machine tools has caused the lack of commonality and key technologies to make the status of the “low-end melee and high-end fall” of the domestic machine tool industry not yet fundamentally reversed. At present, the imported products account for 85% of the domestic high-end machine tool market share, while the domestically-used CNC machine tools account for nearly 70% of the simple economical CNC machine tools with low added value. In 2008, the import value of China's metal processing machine tools was US$7.59 billion; despite the financial crisis, the amount of imports declined, but in 2009 the import value still reached US$5.9 billion.

There are few companies in the industry that can provide complete sets of services for users, and they lack the ability to provide complete solutions or to undertake more complex project general contracting projects.

Due to the high R&D cost of FMS (Flexible Manufacturing System) and CIMS (Computer Integrated Manufacturing System) products with advanced technology, the difficulty in R&D, and the willingness of companies to invest, the production capacity of the industry's technological transformation projects is too large. The trend of large-scale and heavy-duty products is obvious. This makes the development of CNC systems and key functional components seriously lags behind and has become a “bottleneck” factor that restricts the sustainable development of the industry. At present, the domestic market share of the domestic mid-range CNC system is about 30%, while more than 95% of the high-end CNC systems need to be imported. The overall market share of functional components in the domestic market is 30%, and the market share of high-end functional components is even lower. Brand functional components in Taiwan account for about 50% of the domestic market, and the remaining 20% ​​are branded products such as the European Union and Japan. The result of using OEM as the main mode of production can only enable enterprises to maintain the cycle of simple reproduction and inability to develop autonomous technologies.

The machine tool industry is a technology-intensive, capital-intensive, and talent-intensive industry, with features such as multiple product categories, multiple types, small batch sizes, high personal requirements, high production experience requirements, and long investment cycles. It is also important to build a corporate structure that is compatible with it. At this stage, the domestic machine tool industry is still dominated by state-owned enterprises, accounting for as high as 90%. The backward traditional state-owned enterprise system has become a major institutional obstacle to the development of the industry. Compared with other types of enterprises, traditional state-owned enterprises have obvious gaps in terms of economic efficiency, technological innovation, and satisfaction of market needs. The phenomenon of indulging in scale is widespread. However, if we have more resources, we can't take the lead in transitioning and we can't make more progress in technology leadership. This will cause the same technology in the industry, low-level competition, and low overall economic efficiency. According to statistics from the China Machine Tool Industry Association on 232 key contact companies, the average labor productivity in 2009 was 143,000 yuan and the profit rate was 6.2%. And this level of profitability makes technical innovation a few empty talks. This cycle cannot be fundamentally changed. The machine tool industry will only improve its international competitiveness and will only be a good wish.

Path selection becomes the key technology development in the world today is changing with each passing day, processing technology has entered the era of sub-micron and nano-scale ultra-finishing, networked manufacturing technology is in the ascendant, green manufacturing is highly valued, and digital manufacturing with digital machine tools as a technology platform has been promoted to intelligent manufacturing. In the new stage, technology integration and technology compounding have become one of the most active trends in the development of CNC machine tools.

Although China's machine tool industry has enjoyed a strong momentum of development over the years, it has always followed the old road in terms of technology and strategy, and has not fundamentally sought to change its development thinking. The world machine tool industry has a highly international character, which is reflected in the internationalization of the market, the internationalization of technology, and the internationalization of investment. Based on this, choosing the mode and path suitable for the development trend of the contemporary machine tool industry is a must for the future domestic machine tool industry to be stronger, and this choice should not only stay in the form. At the same time, cross-border mergers and acquisitions are also an important way to implement industry industrial restructuring. In short, with a more open international perspective, flexible operation modes, and utilizing all domestic and foreign industrial resources that can be utilized, a win-win situation for cooperation can be achieved. The way to achieve the goal of innovation and upgrade of the machine tool industry should be actively promoted and implemented.

In view of the inherent properties of the machine tool industry, actively support the development of privately-owned machine tool companies, and encourage private capital to invest in the machine tool industry, it should also be regarded as an effective way to improve the internal structure of the domestic machine tool industry and change the traditional development model. In this respect, many machine tool industry developed regions have enough examples. At the same time, we should actively explore deepening the reform of the operating system of state-owned enterprises in the machine tool industry, and establish a state-owned asset management model that suits the needs of the market economy and the characteristics of the machine tool industry in order to create a good micro-foundation for the machine tool industry.

At present, the state attaches great importance to the development of the machine tool industry. The National Science and Technology Major Project of “High-end CNC Machine Tools and Basic Manufacturing Equipment” was put into operation in 2009. This has undoubtedly played a very positive role in promoting the technological innovation of enterprises in the industry. However, in the specific implementation process, there is also the need for further improvement so that relatively limited resources can play a greater role. The first is to select the project participants to participate in the process, not only concerned about the company's production value, production capacity, volume, not based on the nature of the company to choose the basis, but should be comprehensive consideration of the company's product market position, influence and advancement, The uniqueness and originality of technology, the future market development space and other factors, in order to maximize the role of the input resources. Big is not necessarily strong, and even vice versa. This point is very obvious in the current domestic machine tool industry. The second reason is that in view of the complexity of machine tools, the desire to “completely achieve results in one battle” is unrealistic. Then, focusing on selective resources to provide effective breakthroughs in some of the industry's key technical problems may have the effect of “doing more with less” and driving other technical problems. The third is the formation and establishment of a long-term mechanism, the implementation of dynamic management, evaluation of the implementation effect, with special funds to activate the enterprise's enthusiasm for technology research and development, with limited funds to stimulate more industrial resources to invest in technological innovation activities Instead of making it "Don Juan meat." The fourth is to establish a safeguard mechanism. The technological achievements made with public resources should be shared across the industry, rather than being monopolized by special status.

It should be believed that by further deepening reforms, the Chinese machine tool industry will actively adjust industrial and product structures, transform economic growth patterns, enhance independent innovation capabilities, accelerate research and development and market development of medium-to-high-end CNC machine tools and functional components, and further improve product quality and service awareness. In order to improve the overall competitiveness of the industry, the industry will be able to achieve sustainable development in a good and fast manner, and accomplish the goal of becoming stronger and stronger.