Analysis of Import Growth of China's Metal Processing Machine Tools in October 2011

In October 2011, the total number of imported metal processing machines in China was 7,731, a decrease of 21.62% from 9,863 units in the previous month, but it was 13.71% higher than the 6,799 units in October last year; the total import amount was approximately US$976 million, which was higher than that of the previous month. 12.82 billion US dollars fell by 23.88%, an increase of 32.62%; the average import unit price was US$126,200/unit, slightly lower than the US$130,000/unit of the previous month, but still increased by 16.63% compared with US$108,200/station last October. %.

In the first 10 months of this year, China imported a total of 98,500 sets of metal processing machine tools, an increase of 14.3% over 86,200 units in the same period of 2010; the amount of imports was US$ 10.893 billion, an increase of 49.6% over US$ 7.281 billion in the same period of 2010; The unit price for imports was US$110,600 per unit, an increase of 30.9% over the US$84,700 per unit in the same period of 2010.

From January to October, the total import volume of China's metal processing machine tools exceeded 10 billion US dollars, which has exceeded the annual import volume of 20110, which reflects the increasing demand of Zhongguo Machine Tool Market for high-end products. Calculated according to the amount of imports, Japan, Germany and Taiwan are the top three sources of Chinese metal processing machine tools. At present, there are deficiencies in the technical level and industrialization of domestic medium and high-end products, and there is a certain gap between them and imported products. At the same time, the average unit price for China's metal processing machine tool imports increased by about 30%. The main reasons are: the relatively high percentage of machine tools in the import of metal processing machine tools, such as horizontal lathes, other grinders, tool grinders, ultrasonic processing machine tools, presses, forging or stamping machine tools, and other unit prices rose higher. This also shows that the adjustment of the product structure of the machine tool industry is not ideal and does not achieve the goal of replacing imports.