In 2007, China's machine tool trade deficit was reduced for the first time and exports maintained rapid growth.

In 2007, the foreign trade of the machine tool industry continued to maintain a good momentum of development. The import value was US$11.77 billion, an increase of 5.7% year-on-year; the export value was US$5.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 36.2%. The total volume of imports and exports reached 16.97 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 13.5% over the same period of the previous year, and a net increase of 2.02 billion U.S. dollars. Due to the rapid development of new products in the industry, the industrial structure and product structure have been further optimized, the competitiveness of enterprises has been enhanced, the export growth of the entire industry has been rapid, and the growth rate of imports has declined. Since 2000, the import and export trade deficit of machine tool products has continued to expand for many years, 2007 The first year appeared to decrease.
I. Overall situation of import and export of China's machine tool products in 2007 1. Decrease in imports of machine tool products. According to customs statistics, the import value of China's machine tool products was US$11.77 billion in 2007, an increase of 5.7% year-on-year, a decrease of 6.0 from the same period of last year. percentage point. Of which, the import of metal processing machines reached US$7.07 billion, which was a year-on-year decrease of 2.4%. From June onwards, the year-on-year growth for the seven consecutive months showed a slight negative growth. In 2007, the amount of various types of imported machine tools was shown in Table 1.

In 2007, the import value of various types of machine tools and tools, in addition to negative growth in gold-cutting machine tools, foundry machinery and measuring tools, all other types of products showed positive growth. During the year, the increase in the import value of machine tool products fell, and the import increments of machine tool fixtures, numerical control devices, woodworking machine tools, cutting tool tools, and machine tool parts and components were double-digit, with the highest increase rate reaching 50.5%. The import amount of gold-cutting machine tools dropped year-on-year, because it accounted for a relatively large proportion, it can be said that the gold-cutting machine tool is the main factor that caused the decline in the import value of the annual import of machine tool products.
In 2007, the number of imported metal cutting machine tools was 77,076 units, a year-on-year increase of 4.3%; the amount was US$5.24 billion, a decrease of 4.3% year-on-year. Among them, 38,262 CNC machine tools were imported, a year-on-year increase of 13.6%; the amount was US$4.43 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 0.9%. The number and amount of imported CNC cutting machine tools accounted for 49.6% and 84.6% of the import volume and amount of gold-cutting machine tools, respectively, which accounted for an increase of 4.0 and 2.9 percentage points respectively over the same period of the previous year.
In 2007, the overall import of machine tools fell continuously, and some products still maintained a certain growth rate. Such as importing 569 gantry machining centers, the amount of 190 million US dollars, an increase of 27.6% and 48.7%; other processing center 486 units, the amount of 120 million US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 4.5% and an increase of 8.3%; CNC lathe 7214 units, the amount 660 million US dollars, an increase of 3.1% and 17.7% year-on-year; 2,609 CNC grinders, a value of 620 million US dollars, an increase of 2.0% and 15.2% year-on-year; 266 CNC gear machine tools, the amount of 130 million US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 1.9 % and increase by 23.4%.
In 2007, the number of imported forming machines for forming machines was 30,596 units and the amount was US$1.83 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 12.0% and an increase of 3.7%. Among them, the number of CNC forming machine tools was 6,520 units, amounting to 930 million U.S. dollars, up 5.3% year-on-year and 10.4% year-on-year, respectively. The increase in import amount was 11.7 percentage points higher than the same period of last year.
Regardless of whether it is a forming machine tool or a CNC forming machine tool, the increase in the import amount is higher than the increase in the number, and the proportion of the import amount is also higher than the proportion of the number, indicating that the overall import grade of the forming machine is higher. The import value of CNC punch press continued to increase at a high level. The average import prices of numerical control forming press brakes and numerically controlled shearing machines increased by double digits year-on-year.
The main sources of processing machine tool imports and major importing provinces and cities in 2007 are still relatively high in the concentration of major sources of metal processing machine tool imports, with Japan, China Taiwan, Germany, South Korea, Italy, Switzerland, the United States, and Singapore ranking in the top eight. Total imports amounted to US$ 6.52 billion, accounting for 92.1% of the total imports of metal processing machine tools. The amount of metal processing machines imported from South Korea rose from the fifth year of last year to the fourth.
In 2007, the top eight imported provinces and cities for metal processing machine tools were Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Liaoning, Tianjin, Shandong, and Beijing, all of which were located in eastern China. Among these, imports from Jiangsu, Tianjin, Shandong, and Beijing experienced negative growth, with a decrease of more than 10%. The share of Jiangsu's imports was relatively large, with a drop of 20.2%. The ranking also fell from the first place in the previous year to the second place. The top eight import provinces and cities totaled 5.67 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 80.2% of the total imports of metal processing machine tools.
Imports of metal processing machine tools and the nature of the company In 2007 foreign-invested enterprises took equipment imports as an investment method of import value of 3.74 billion US dollars, down 15.2%, accounting for 52.8% of imports, a drop of 8.0 percentage points over the previous year; The amount of imports was 2.24 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 32.0% year-on-year, accounting for 31.7% of the import value, an increase of 8.3 percentage points over the previous year. The two together accounted for 84.5% of the import amount of metal processing machine tools, which was basically the same as the same period of last year.
The amount of imports of state-owned enterprises was 1.53 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 26.6% from the same period of last year, and rose from the third place of the previous year to the second place. In the top three wholly foreign-owned enterprises and Sino-foreign joint ventures, the increase in the amount of imported metal processing machine tools was declining by more than 10%, and the share of the metalworking machine tool import amount decreased by 4.5 and 2.9 percentage points respectively. Although the share of foreign-funded enterprises has declined, it still maintains a higher proportion.
2. The export of machine tool products maintained rapid growth The growth of machine tool products was still strong. According to customs statistics, the export value of machine tool products in 2005 was US$5.2 billion, an increase of 36.2% year-on-year. Among them, the export value of metal processing machine tools was 1.65 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 39.2% year-on-year. In 2007, the export machine tool and various product amounts are shown in Table 2.

The increase in export value was higher for forming machine tools, numerical control devices, woodworking machine tools, machine tool parts, and machine tool fixtures, all with an increase of more than 40%. The export growth of other products was lower than the average growth rate of the export of machine tool products.
The top five most important contributors to the growth of machine tools and tool products are gold-cutting machines, cutting tools, abrasives, woodworking machines, and forming machines.
The value of metal cutting machine tools in 2007 was 1.22 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 31.6% year-on-year. The export of CNC cutting machine tools grew rapidly. The number of exports was 1,798 units and the amount was US$410 million, which was a year-on-year increase of 65.4% and 49.4% respectively. The export value accounted for 33.8% of the total value of gold-cut machine tool exports, which was an increase of 4.0 percentage points over the previous year.
Exports of processing centers fell by 12.9% year-on-year, while exports increased by 68.3%. At the same time, the increase in exports such as lathes, boring machines, milling machines, and grinders is also higher than the increase in volume.
In 2007, the forming machine tools exported 338,765 sets of machine tools with a total value of 430 million U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 39.4% and 66.5% respectively. Among them, 1,836 sets of CNC machine tools were exported, with a value of USD 80 million, an increase of 21.1% and 42.8% year-on-year respectively.
The export of hydraulic presses and punch presses grew rapidly, and the export amount increased by more than 100% year-on-year; forming bending machines accounted for more than 1/4 of the export value of forming machine tools, and were the main varieties for export of forming machine tools. The growth rate of CNC machine tools was faster, and the growth rate of all types of products was above 55%.
The major destinations of export of metal processing machines and the major export provinces and cities of China are diversified in the areas of foreign machine tool consumption, with nearly 180 countries or regions. The United States, Japan, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Brazil, South Korea, and Russia rank in the top eight, and their export value has increased to varying degrees. Except for the United States, the other seven places of consumption increased by two or three digits year-on-year. The amount of money exported to South Korea and Russia increased rapidly from the twelfth and eighteenth places in the previous year to seventh and eighth respectively. The top eight exports totaled 740 million U.S. dollars, accounting for 44.5% of the total exports of metal processing machine tools.
In 2007, the top eight exporters of metal processing machine tools were Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Liaoning, Guangdong, Shandong, Shanghai, Beijing, and Hubei. Their growth rates were all above 10%. Outside Hubei, the other seven provinces and cities all come from eastern China. The top eight exports totaled 1.42 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 85.8% of the total export value of metal processing machine tools, of which Jiangsu Province exported 400 million U.S. dollars, accounting for 24.0% of total exports.
The export method and nature of the metal processing machine tool exports in general trade has always been the main mode of export of metal processing machine tools. The annual export was US$1.3 billion, an increase of 45.0% year-on-year, and the share was close to 80%. In the second place is the feed processing trade, which accounts for 15.0%, which is a decrease from the previous year.
The export value of state-owned enterprises is still at the top of the list. The export of metal processing machine tools by private enterprises has developed rapidly. The export value has reached 520 million U.S. dollars, and the state-owned enterprises have only lost 60 million U.S. dollars, and their share has further increased, exceeding 30%, ranking first. The state-owned enterprises are almost equal.
II. Main Features of Import and Export of Machine Tools and Tools Industry in 2007 The characteristics of China's machine tool import and export in 2007 were characterized by rapid growth in export growth, rapid growth after import growth, and a decline in the trade deficit for the first time; the import world was the first in a row, and export safety was approaching eight. Seventh, global status has improved.
1. The increase in import amount decreased, and the foreign trade deficit decreased for the first time. The high growth rate of imports continued to slow for many years. In 2007, the import volume of the machine tool industry increased by only 5.7% year-on-year. Since 2000, the increase rate has dropped to the first place for the first time. With the industry accelerating the pace of industrial structure and product structure adjustment, domestic CNC machine tools have developed rapidly in recent years. Product varieties, product levels and product quality have made great progress, gradually gaining recognition from various industries in the country, and many products have been able to meet domestic demand. Demand.
The import growth rate gradually slowed down, and the export growth rate remained rapid. In addition to the fixture attachments for machine tools in 2007, the growth rate of export value of various types of machine tool products was higher than that of imports. The growth rate of export value of the industry was higher than that of imports by 30.5 percentage points, which formed a decline in the deficit of import and export of machine tool products throughout the year. It ended the trend of the expansion of foreign trade deficit for the past ten years year by year, and the first time there was a deficit reduction. In 2007, the trade deficit of the machine tool industry was 6.57 billion U.S. dollars, a decrease of 750 million U.S. dollars from the same period of last year. The import and export trade deficit of metal processing machines dropped from US$6.06 billion in the same period of last year to US$5.42 billion, and the foreign trade deficit dropped by 10.5% year-on-year. The first time there was negative growth, becoming the main factor in pulling down the deficit of the foreign trade deficit in the machine tool industry.
2. The structure of import and export products was further optimized, and CNC machine tools became the mainstream. In 2007, the proportion of CNC machine tools imported in the amount of CNC machine tools was further increased, reaching 75.9%, 2.5 percentage points higher than the previous year. Among them, the processing center's import amount was 1.73 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 32.9% of the import value of metal-cutting machine tools, and ranked first in the import of metal processing machine tools. The average import prices of gantry machining centers, other machining centers, CNC lathes, CNC grinding machines, and numerical control gear processing machines also increased at a relatively rapid rate, with increases of 16.6%, 13.4%, 14.1%, 13.0%, and 25.7%, respectively. The import growth of machine tool fixtures accessories, numerical control devices, and woodworking machine tools remained strong. The year-on-year increase in imports was 50.5%, 40.7%, and 21.7%, respectively. The average price of cutting tool imports increased by 22.8% year-on-year. The import grade of machine tool products has improved.
In 2007, the export product structure of machine tools was developing in a good direction. The average price of metal processing machine tool exports further increased by 32.4% year-on-year. The average export price of processing centers has exceeded 70,000 U.S. dollars per unit. The export of CNC metal processing machine tools has been fully developed. In addition to the year-on-year negative growth in export value of CNC grinding machines, all other types of CNC products have grown at a rate of more than 30%. In particular, the export value of CNC machine tools has increased by 153.8%. The export value of CNC machine tools has increased at a rate of 100 million U.S. dollars a year, from exports of 0.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2003 to nearly 500 million U.S. dollars in 2007, an increase of more than seven times. At the same time, the proportion of its exports in metal processing machine tool exports rose year by year, reaching 30.0% in 2007, an increase of 1.8 percentage points over the previous year, and CNC machine tools have become an important factor driving the growth of China's machine tool exports. Exports of other products have also increased to varying degrees. Except for measuring tools, the growth rate of exports of all products is double-digit. The average export prices of measuring tools, cutting tool tools, machine tool parts, and machine tool fixtures have increased over the previous year.
3. General trade achieved rapid development in both import and export. Foreign-invested enterprises still accounted for the dominant position of metal processing machine tool imports with equipment import as an investment method, but their share was decreasing, from 60.8% in 2006 to 52.8%. . The growth rate of general trade imports was significant. The import amount was 2.24 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 32.0% over the same period of last year, and the share was more than 30%.
In export trade, general trade is the mainstay of metal processing machine tool exports, and the growth is still strong. The export value is 1.30 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 45.0% over the same period of last year, and the share has reached 78.9%, which is 3.1 percentage points higher than the same period of last year.
4. Foreign trade in the eastern region occupies an absolute superior position. Imports and exports in the central and western regions have increased rapidly. The regional economy dominated by the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta has developed rapidly. In 2007, the import and export of metal processing machine tools in Jiangsu, Guangdong, and Shanghai topped the list. More than 50% of the import and export volume. The top seven exporters and the top eight importers of provinces and cities are concentrated in the east, and the eastern region accounts for 83.1% of the import and export volume.
Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang have more than doubled their imports in the central and western regions. Exports grew more than twice as much as Tianjin and Guangxi in the eastern region, while Shanxi, Sichuan, Heilongjiang, Guizhou, Xinjiang, and Ningxia all located in the central and western regions.
Third, in 2007 the world's machine tool import and export situation and China's machine tool import and export status in the world (omitted)
Grasping import and export policies and changing export growth methods In 2007, the situation of China's machine tool exports was gratifying. However, to further narrow the deficit, it is still necessary to further adjust the structure of export products, transform export growth patterns, and achieve sustainable development. While export growth is high, we should do a good job of early warning of industrial damage and avoid and deal with possible trade frictions.
In order to improve the ability of independent innovation of enterprises and international competitiveness, reduce trade frictions, promote the balance of import and export trade, and change the mode of foreign trade growth, the government has recently introduced a series of policies related to the development of the industry, mainly including: “Regarding the reduction of some merchandise exports The notification of tax rebate rate is mainly aimed at canceling or lowering the export tax rebate rate for products that have high energy consumption, high pollution, and resource content with low product and technology content and low added value. The Catalogue of Imported Commodities that Are Not Exempted from Taxes in Domestic Investment Projects (Revised in 2006) strictly enforces the import tariff policy for machine tools. The Catalogue of Encouraged Import Technologies and Products provides financial support for high-end manufacturing such as advanced technology and important equipment that the country encourages to import. The "Circular on Implementing the State Council's Opinions on Accelerating the Revitalization of the Equipment Manufacturing Industry concerning Import Taxation Policies" provides policy support for the import of key components and parts of the 16 major technical equipments.
In 2007, the machine tool industry was a year of rapid growth. This was inseparable from the country’s attention, strong market demand, independent innovation of enterprises, and optimization of industrial structure. Judging from the growth rate of import and export trade, the growth rate of China's machine tool imports has steadily declined throughout the year, and exports have grown at a high rate. The general trend is in favor of the industry. It is estimated that the import and export of China's machine tools will remain stable in 2008.
2008 is a crucial year for the implementation of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” and is also a crucial year for the revitalization of China's machine tool industry. The machine tool industry faces strategic opportunities and faces severe challenges. At the 11th session of the National People's Congress held recently, Premier Wen Jiabao's government work report will develop high-tech industries, vigorously revitalize the equipment manufacturing industry, and promote independent research and development and localization in key areas such as high-end CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment. The main task of 2008. Accelerating the revitalization of the equipment manufacturing industry has provided a huge market demand for the machine tool industry. At the same time, the industry is also facing rising prices of energy and raw materials, appreciation of the renminbi, increase in labor costs, and adjustment of export tax rebates.

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