Existing Structural Problems in China's Machine Tool Industry-2

Imbalance Structural in the Industry

The domestic machine tool market presents the "high-end loss, mid-range competition, low-end civil war" situation, is the external performance of structural imbalance in the industry. Enterprises scattered in various provinces and cities, dominated by market forces, chasing the immediate profit hot spot. Some homogeneity is serious, and some have long-term gaps. Such as around 2006 a swarm of heavy machine tools, a large number of private capital investment in low-end machine tools, in 2013 for 3C product processing drilling machine, etc. , causing serious waste. On the other hand, important but difficult product areas, such as functional parts and components, are not available.

China's machine tool industry ," heavy host light matching, heavy quantity light quality, heavy 'face' light foundation", as well as the lack of professional division of labor, enterprises "big and complete" and other issues, has a long history. As early as 30 years ago, the machine tool leadership department on the development of "specialized, small giant" enterprises, but to this day still not much changed. A high degree of professional division of labor should be the product of the full development of the industrial market, which needs to further improve the industrial ecological environment, to give corresponding policy support.

Machine tool industry as a "tool" sector, the required scale is limited, usually multi-species, small-scale production, must not be "GDP hero." The value added of machine tool industry in Germany and Japan is also no more than 0.3% of GDP. Machine tool companies in many of our places are not "waiting" for the government, or are being urged to scale up, leading to today's plight.

The crux of the problem is to correct the relationship between market mechanism and government function. Most enterprises can not jump out of their own strength, vision and surrounding constraints, and local governments are limited by work objectives, no time to take into account the long-term interests of an industry.

Over the past 40 years, China's industrial management departments have undergone many reforms. At present, the problem of the machine tool industry is the virtualization of the industry management function, in the face of the industry's highly market-oriented, decentralized status quo, the relevant industrial management departments lack of co-ordination and guidance, and even many doors, it is difficult to form a joint force.

As a developing industrial power, it is clear that the strengthening of industry management functions needs to be considered in order to promote the upgrading of key industries and fill critical technology gaps in these strategic focus areas.