China is the largest manufacturing country and the second largest gauge producer in the world. Measuring tool use country, but not powerful country, from research and development to manufacturing overall technology level is relatively backward. Therefore, the transformation and upgrading of equipment manufacturing industry is seriously restricted, especially in ultra-precision processing, there is still a lot of room for technological growth. From the perspective of in-depth industrial development, the tool industry has formed strong manufacturing ability and certain marketing ability after experiencing a period of rapid development. In the future, the industry will further expand to high-end, professional, high-quality areas, and upgrade to service-oriented manufacturing.

Manufacturing power position is stable

According to statistics, during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the accumulated export volume of the tool industry exceeded 100 billion US dollars, and the accumulated import volume was nearly 60 billion US dollars, with the average annual export volume maintaining a growth rate of more than 20%. In 2010, tool exports exceeded 30 billion US dollars, making China the world's largest manufacturer and exporter of tool products.

In addition, through the "China International Tool Industry Development Summit forum", "Shanghai International Cutting Tools and Equipment Exhibition (CCTE China Tool Exhibition)" to release and promote to the domestic and foreign, for promoting the brand building of China's high-end tool products has a milestone significance.

Industrial development is in the period of opportunity

The growth of emerging markets, the proliferation of new technologies, the introduction of sustainability policies, and changing consumer preferences - these are all turning the global economy upside down.

Digitization, further automation, and new business models are transforming industries, and the cutting tool industry is no exception. The above factors lead to the disruptive trends in cutting tool technology: diversification, automation, electrification and intelligent interconnection.

During the period of "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in", tool industry backbone enterprise to adopt advanced forging, mould processing and repair, and the numerical control machine tool transfer combination machine tools, controlled atmosphere heat treatment and high frequency induction heating, to transform traditional industries, environmental protection plating and other advanced technology, improve labor productivity, improve product quality, grade and added value, transformation of the mode of development, Follow a path of innovative development featuring high standards, high quality and high efficiency.

At the same time, on the basis of strengthening exchanges at home and abroad, we should further promote the construction of the industry in manufacturing, sales, standards and testing, and enhance the voice of The Chinese tool industry in the global tool industry chain.

In terms of domestic sales, with the increasing demand in domestic professional manufacturing and the gradual improvement of sales channel system, the situation of small sales and slow payment collection that enterprises used to worry about has also been greatly improved. Enterprises can either build their own domestic sales system, or cooperate with trade dealers with comprehensive strength to jointly develop the market. The stable domestic market will not only help enterprises resist overseas market risks effectively, but also bring more business opportunities for the development of enterprises. Without the foreign market, it is not big, and without the domestic market, it is unstable.

Upgrade to service manufacturing

Transformation and upgrading to service-oriented manufacturing will become the direction of future manufacturing development. At present, the backbone enterprises in the industry are no longer limited to simply providing after-sales service, but have realized service advance (starting from design and development), joint development and whole-process coverage, and are striving to complete the transformation and upgrading from production-oriented to service-oriented.

Although it has made a series of achievements in serving domestic high-end professional users, and some tool manufacturers have begun to provide products and services for high-speed railway construction, automobile maintenance, shipbuilding and other professional fields, the development of the industry is still facing difficulties and challenges. While insisting on pursuing high standard, high quality, high efficiency and high profit, tool manufacturers should also strengthen channel building and brand awareness, and strive to make domestic high-grade tools gain more recognition and influence.

During the period of "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in", tool industry will continue to insist on the changing from extensive to intensive, from the labor-intensive to technology-intensive, from the quantity expansion to quality, by the low cost of low price to high value-added high margins upgrade transformation, by mainly OEM export to gradually raise the proportion of independent brand exports, set the development idea of high standard, high quality, high efficiency, We will adopt advanced technologies to transform traditional industries, increase investment in science and technology and research and development, and increase the added value of products to truly transform big industries into strong ones.