For a long time, domestic CNC machine tools have always been in a situation of rapid expansion in the low-end market, slow progress in the mid-range, and reliance on imports, especially for key equipment needed for national key projects, which mainly relies on imports, and technology is constrained by others. It is evident that the growth of the CNC machine tool industry still requires "quantitative change" to accelerate the transition to the mid-to-high-end production stage.
With the development of electronic information technology, the machine tool industry has entered an era of motor integration centered on digital manufacturing technology, among which CNC machine tools are one of the representative products. CNC machine tools are the processing mother machines of the manufacturing industry and an important foundation of the national economy. They provide equipment and means for various sectors of the national economy, with unlimited economic and social effects.
Currently, industrialized countries such as Europe, America, and Japan have successively completed the industrialization process of CNC machine tools, while China started in the 1980s and is still in the development stage, with mid-to-high-end localization yet to be achieved.
Benefiting from the rapid development of industries such as automobiles, aerospace, ships, power equipment, and construction machinery in China, there has been a huge demand for the machine tool market, especially for CNC machine tools, leading to rapid growth in the Anhui machine tool industry. According to statistics from the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute's "Strategic Planning and Enterprise Strategic Consulting Report on the CNC Machine Tool Industry," from 2014 to 2016, the sales revenue of CNC machine tools in China exceeded 240 billion yuan each year; in 2016, the sales volume of CNC machine tools in China was 263.04 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.69%. It is expected that by 2023, the market size of China's CNC machine tool industry will exceed 500 billion yuan.
Forecast of the market size of China's CNC machine tool industry from 2018 to 2023
The economic development focus of the "13th Five-Year Plan" is to achieve a transformation in the mode of economic growth, a transformation in the way advanced manufacturing is reformed, and the direction of transforming traditional manufacturing. The development of high-tech industries such as electronic information, bioengineering, and new energy materials will open up new demand for precision, specialized CNC machine tools; from a regional development analysis, the upgrading of industries in eastern China, the revitalization of old industrial bases in Northeast China, and the accelerated development of the central and western regions provide a domestic market for the development of the CNC machine tool industry; economic globalization, the transfer of international capital and industries to China, the exchange of international technology and talent, and the strong development of China's international trade provide an external environment for the development of China's CNC machine tool industry, placing the CNC machine tool industry in a rare strategic development period.
The state has also given high attention to the development of the CNC machine tool market. "Made in China 2025" lists "CNC machine tools" as one of the key development areas for the manufacturing industry in the next decade. The "Technology Roadmap for Key Areas of Made in China 2025" clarifies the future development goals of CNC machine tools, stating that "by 2020, the domestic market share of CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment will exceed 80%." The demand side for CNC machine tools will transmit to the supply side, strongly promoting the structural upgrade of CNC machine tools, while enterprises producing CNC machine tools will welcome favorable development opportunities.
Currently, the sales of CNC machine tools are mainly single machine sales. As competition among downstream manufacturing enterprises intensifies and costs rise, especially with the sharp increase in labor production costs and the increasingly frequent labor shortages, this will force the emergence of more unmanned automated production workshops. The demand for automated production lines and unmanned workshops from downstream customers of single machine sales will increase.
Unmanned workshops will first appear with "CNC machine tools + industrial robots" as a complete set of equipment, addressing the pain point of sharply rising labor production costs. The popularization of complete sets of equipment such as "CNC machine tools + industrial robots" will become an important feature of future industry development, marking an important step towards creating future smart factories and intelligent production lines, and is also the future development direction of CNC machine tool manufacturing enterprises.
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