China Accelerates High-end Equipment Independent R&D Capability

At this year's national "two sessions," Wang Ruixiang, deputy director of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the China Machinery Industry Federation, told the media that China has become a world-class equipment manufacturing country, but "big but not strong" is an indisputable fact. In particular, affected by the international financial crisis and the European debt crisis, China's equipment manufacturing industry is facing a grim situation of interception before and after the pursuit of troops. Especially in terms of high-end equipment, the United States, the European Union and other developed countries began to use the high-tech, high-value-added equipment production and processing and manufacturing industries, which have gradually recovered from overseas and have adopted many incentive policies, such as tax relief. Subsidy incentives, etc., encourage investors and manufacturers to return to their home countries.

“Because of their strong technological advantages, marketing advantages and brand advantages, coupled with policy support, it is a great challenge for developing countries and emerging economies.” Wang Ruixiang pointed out that at present, emerging economies The body is also accelerating the use of its own advantageous resources to absorb some of the manufacturing capabilities transferred from the developed countries, and China competes for markets and competes for investment. If we lack the sense of sensitivity and crisis that we should be aware of, we should deal with inappropriateness and delay the opportunity. This will not only fail to change the current passive situation that is large but not strong, but it will also widen the gap between developed countries and developed countries. China.

Wang Ruixiang said that current advanced technologies relying on imports and high-end products rely on imports are still the harsh reality faced by China's equipment manufacturing industry. High-end machine tools, high-end engines, high-end instrumentation and control systems all need to be introduced from abroad. Among them, 90% of high-grade CNC machine tools are imported, 95% of CNC systems are imported, and 70% of instruments and meters are imported. In the field of basic components, 70% of high-grade functional components for high-end CNC machine tools need to be imported. Large-scale engineering machinery requires more than 30 MPA hydraulic components, 200 km/h gearbox, 2.5 MW wind power gearbox, and large coal. Mechanical gearboxes, high-speed train brakes, and electro-hydraulic drives for large shield machines are almost all imported. Although we have joint ventures and cooperative production with foreign advanced companies in marine diesel engines, the key core technologies and brands are still in the hands of foreign companies. China has not yet been freed from the "work style" status of processing and manufacturing.

Wang Ruixiang emphasized that for China's equipment manufacturing industry, the most critical thing is to accelerate the construction of independent research and development capabilities. The state must think of ways to give policy support on the one hand, and on the other hand to integrate resources and organize technological research. “At present, China’s scientific research institutes are still decentralized, and they should think about ways to integrate them. Colleges and universities should also consider how they can participate. I believe that the strength of several parties will be organized together, and our country will be able to gradually break through the technological bottlenecks and break through. The status quo of high-end equipment manufacturing and foreign companies' monopoly markets has gradually formed a high-end equipment manufacturing industry that is guided by high technology and is at the core of the high-end value chain and the industrial chain and can enhance the core competitiveness of the entire industry."