At the report on the economic situation of China's machinery industry, the relevant person in charge of the Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology revealed that the "Twelfth Five Year Plan" for high-end equipment manufacturing has been completed and is about to be released. The key directions include aviation equipment and marine engineering equipment. , rail transportation equipment, satellite manufacturing equipment and applications, intelligent manufacturing equipment, and Other five areas.

High-end equipment manufacturing is a measure of the strength of a country's equipment industry. In 2009, the sales volume of China's machinery and equipment industry reached 1.5 trillion US dollars, surpassing Japan and the United States and leaping to the top in the world. However, China is not yet a powerful equipment manufacturing country. Planning through a clear policy orientation, and vigorously developing high-end equipment manufacturing, will help China's equipment industry to change the current situation of large but not strong, occupying a commanding height in the world's industrial competition.

At present, China's equipment industry ranks first in the world in terms of industry scale, but high-end equipment still cannot meet the needs and has to import large quantities. Statistics show that in 2010 China's import of mechanical products used to reach 255.3 billion US dollars, the industry's low-end overcapacity, high-end serious shortage of the contradiction is very prominent.

For example, in the key basic components, this problem is particularly evident. During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, China’s host products such as hydraulic presses, wind power equipment, high-speed trains, thermal power and nuclear power equipment, and CNC machine tools have developed rapidly. However, the high-end parts needed for these mainframes are increasingly subject to import, and the number of imports has increased. More and more, prices are getting higher and higher, and delivery times are becoming less and less secure. According to statistics from the China Construction Machinery Association, in 2010 China's excavator industry sold a total of 165,800 units, an increase of 78.52%. However, the high-end hydraulic components required for construction machinery still need to rely heavily on imports. 70% of the profits of the industry are swallowed by imported basic components. .

In terms of industry operations, due to the impact of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and the United States and international market turmoil, the growth rate of China's machinery industry declined significantly in the first half of this year, the main business revenue decreased year-on-year, and foreign trade also suffered a continuous deficit. "This includes both the oversupply of low-end equipment and overcapacity, the huge domestic demand for high-end equipment, and the doubling of imports of mechanical products. This has caused a major impact on the domestic market." said Cai Weici, executive vice president of the China Federation of Machinery Industry. The new trends in the development of the machinery industry are warning: China must change its development mode during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, change its "manufacturing power" into a "manufacturing powerhouse," and must vigorously develop high-end equipment and accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading.

Objectively, vigorously developing high-end equipment manufacturing industry is a strategic move for China’s equipment industry to promote structural adjustment, transformation and upgrading. For enterprises, it is also to increase the industry’s ability to independently develop and reduce dependence on imported products. The only way to obtain greater output with less resource consumption.

Judging from the development trend of China's equipment industry in recent years, on the one hand, China’s heavy industrialization has entered a stage of acceleration, and the advantages of new energy industries such as rail transit construction, aerospace industry, Hehai shipbuilding engineering, offshore petroleum engineering, wind power, etc. , The pull effect on high-end equipment manufacturing industry is obvious. On the other hand, during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, China will achieve a transformation and upgrading of the national economy, and all walks of industries involved in the development of the national economy must achieve the highest economic and social benefits with the least resource consumption and must rely on the high-end of production equipment. And the modernization of production technology.

The strong market demand will provide strong support for the development of China's high-end equipment manufacturing industry. However, the development of high-end equipment manufacturing cannot be accomplished overnight. "On the high end, we must lay a solid foundation, break the technical bottleneck, and make great efforts to improve the level of R&D and system integration of basic technologies, basic materials, and basic components, and to strengthen R&D and industrialization of major technological equipment," said Cai Weici.

Localization of high-end equipment and independent innovation are the key. The development of high-end equipment can not only be satisfied with the development of individual high-end products, but also focus on improving the ability of independent innovation.

Therefore, there is an urgent need to strengthen the research and development of core key technologies, strengthen the research on the basic common technologies of the industry, concentrate on the development and implementation of major scientific and technological breakthroughs, and upgrade the integration and innovation capabilities of major technology and equipment.

At the same time, the development of high-end equipment manufacturing industry also needs to pay attention to market cultivation. According to reports, at present some of the high-end manufacturing industries in China are not without high-tech products. However, due to the "first set," users often do not trust the products of their own brands because of risk control considerations. Purchase and use. Cai Weici proposed to this, the relevant state departments to further increase the application of demonstration, organize the implementation of high-end product application demonstration project, through the provision of product technology application services to expand the impact, to attract potential markets, to tap the market from the depth, to cultivate the market.