Current Situation and Prospect of China's CNC Machine Tool Industry
1、 Industry status
1） CNC metal cutting machine tools account for the highest proportion
CNC machine tools can be classified into four categories according to their uses. CNC metal cutting machines can process the shape, size, quality and precision of various metal components by cutting, grinding or special processing.
Due to the advantages of numerical control metal cutting machine tools in precision, processing efficiency and dynamic processing, and in the context of the rising demand in downstream areas such as aerospace, shipbuilding, military and automotive, China's production of numerical control metal cutting machine tools peaked in 2016, at 250000 sets.
In addition, because CNC metal cutting machine tools can optimize the machining accuracy and efficiency of metal processing elements through computer systems, they can reduce machining errors and shorten the auxiliary cycle of machining, which is more applicable than other three types of CNC machine tools.
2）China's CNC machine tool industry is mainly located in East China and Central South China
CNC machine tools in China are mainly distributed in East China, Central South China, Northeast China, North China and other regions. Because East China, including Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian and other provinces and cities, has advantages in natural environment, product resources and industrial categories, its light industry, machinery and electronics industries occupy a leading position in China.
As China's demand for CNC machine tools comes from regions with developed manufacturing industries and economies, its product scale is mainly concentrated in East China and Central South China. By 2020, the scale of CNC machine tools industry in East China and Central South China has accounted for 73% in total.
2、 Industry prospect
1）Downstream demand release
With the growth of China's automobile industry, aerospace industry and China's intelligent manufacturing market, CNC machine tools, as the key high-end equipment in the manufacturing process of such fields, can provide a basis for the growth of the industry. Although China's overall automobile production and sales have declined due to various factors, the growth of new energy automobile production and sales has become a new growth point of the automobile industry market size, CNC machine tools are the highest proportion of applications in the automobile industry, and the demand for CNC machine tools in automobile industry manufacturing will continue to increase.
At the same time, under the trend that other application industries, such as aerospace manufacturing, engineering machinery and electronic manufacturing, have gradually enhanced the linkage effect with the CNC machine tool industry, China's machine tool industry will further benefit from the upgrading of China's manufacturing industry, structural adjustment and the recovery of fixed asset investment in the manufacturing industry in the post epidemic era.
2）Localization of high-end machine tools is imperative
From the perspective of downstream application fields of machine tools, the industrial upgrading of key industries such as automobile, aerospace, engineering machinery has accelerated, and there is a strong demand for high-end machine tools. However, Western countries have strictly controlled the export of high-end CNC machine tools represented by five axis linkage CNC machine tools. The machine tool industry has risen to the height of the core of the national development strategy. In recent years, China has issued a number of relevant plans to accelerate the development of high-end CNC machine tools, and the localization process of high-end machine tools is expected to speed up.
