After the founding of the machine tool industry has been one of the key development of the industry. Before the "Cultural Revolution", through the introduction of Soviet technology, has basically completed a complete machine tool industry system, especially heavy, precision machine tools have been able to basically meet the needs of domestic construction, for the national defense industry has made contributions. 30 years of reform and opening up, the machine tool technology, numerical control, output value has also made great progress in 2008, China's machine tool output ranks third in the world, CNC rate of 20%. However, look at the world, we and the international advanced technology gap is still great. China's machine tool industry output in the world, and output value reached the third, it is big but not strong, technically only the world second-class level. In 2008, China's machine tool imports 7.58 billion US dollars, ranking first in the world, while exports only 2.1 billion US dollars, domestic machine tools in the domestic market share of only 61%. At the same time, the number of imported products is not much, but the high value-added technology, expensive. The number of products exported, the value is low, mostly labor-intensive or material type (such as drill, abrasive, etc.). The reason is that technology is not as good as people.
China's machine tool quality generally listed in Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Italy, France, the United States, Britain, Spain after. The late 60s of last century, driven by the precision machine project, China's production of coordinate boring machine, gear grinding machine or have a certain technical content. 80 years, and some machine tool factory for the German and Japanese companies to map to create more stringent quality of the machine, and do a good job, but also exported a considerable number. On the basis of the time, and now China's gear grinding machine products in the international level is a high level.
The number of species like Germany, after the date, in recent years have made great progress, such as the development of multi-coordinate linkage, CNC composite processing machine tools and other high-end CNC products. But still difficult to meet the military, automotive and other industries needs.
Machine tool industry to develop, we must enhance competitiveness, and strive to improve the quality, vigorously develop varieties, enhance the technical level to replace imports, expand exports. Many years ago when the machine is not good economic situation, some companies have put forward the "quality of survival, to develop varieties" we as the industry's long-term development approach. For example: Dongguan City Sipu CNC Equipment Co., Ltd. is focused on the market for small metal parts processing enterprises launched a series of cost-effective multi-functional small industrial CNC milling machine is a sub-market development to make up for small parts professional processing Machine tool market blank, this is also a very good direction of development.