The "global first" road in the vertical machining center of Chinas equipment manufacturing industry

In 2012, a trend of "manufacturing industry retracting vertical processing centers" was diffused in western countries. The state of the Union address, President of the US President Obama, stressed the need to revive the manufacturing industry in order to make the US economy "evergreen". After the financial crisis, the false prosperity brought by financial derivatives has made more and more countries realize that the real economy plays a decisive role in the development of the country and the economic crisis.

As the basis of China's real economy, the equipment manufacturing industry has played a core role in the development of China's reform and opening to the outside world for more than 30 years. From scratch, from weak to strong, now, the transformation of Chinese equipment manufacturing industry upgrade is on".

November 6, 2013 CCTV financial channel documentary documentary "powers" broadcast, the film in the back of the equipment manufacturing industry Chinese hard struggle at the same time, also shows Chinese equipment manufacturing industry innovation achievements and future prospects.

What are the challenges for the transformation and upgrading of the equipment manufacturing industry in China? What is the key to innovation driven? How does China complete the change from the equipment power to the equipment power?

Stand up to talk about the price

For a long time, because of the lack of core technology, "no bargaining" in the days of buying technology to foreign countries has become an eternal pain in many Chinese enterprises.

IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) is the representative product of the third technology revolution of power semiconductor devices. It is widely used in the strategic industries such as rail transportation, aerospace, high voltage frequency conversion and so on, which has been monopolized abroad for a long time.

"Pricing power is not in its own hands. Even if there is money, sometimes it cannot be bought. A large electric locomotive is eaten by several key components." China CSR (601766, shares) Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute Co., Ltd. chief engineer Feng Jianghua Chinese on "economic weekly", suffered after the company finally completed the technical development of IGBT devices in 2009, products not only recapture the domestic market and overseas market demand.

At present, in addition to meeting its own needs, the IGBT devices in the south of China have achieved more than 2 billion yuan in the global sales revenue.

China enterprise more and more patent technology not only in the "buyer's market" was also active in the "seller's market" straighten up.

He Haoming, the chairman of the China wweng group, has the right to speak. In November 2007, Weng Fu Group succeeded in winning a successful bid for the world's largest phosphate dressing plant - an important project for the mining development of the Saudi Arabian government. Looking back on that year, the secret weapon to ensure that Weng Fu Group won the final bid is a unique technology device that China can extract anhydrous hydrogen fluoride from by-products of phosphate fertilizer. This technology will give the Saudi factory $200 million a year in excess of profits, which is a great temptation for Saudi Arabia.

However, hydrogen fluoride is very demanding for storage conditions. Once a South African company wanted to introduce the technology and equipment. At that time, Weng Fu group reported the transfer price of nearly $100 million. But the other party has repeatedly asked for a price concession.

He Haoming, who has the initiative, immediately rejects the opponent's bargaining. "For this price, have to, don't even. We are very confident that you look for it all over the world, only we have this technology. "

Then it took a whole year for South Africans to look around the world, but in the end, it was true that the technology was indeed only China, and it was no substitute. A year later, the South Africans came to China again. He Haoming told them that, because of the adjustment of raw materials and labor costs, the price needs to be raised by 20% on the basis of the original.

"In the past we bought technology abroad. What's the attitude of foreigners? In the past we are suffering, today we can put up straight." He Haoming said.

正如中国机械科学研究总院原副院长屈贤明所说，“以前核心的部件中国不能造，（对方）自然就把价格抬得比较高，所以最后你整个盈利附加价值就会很低，没有掌握在自己手里，你就不能根据这个主机产品的发展提供相应的零部件。”

From "be looked down on by people" to "worthy adversaries"

In April 2013, the largest exhibition and procurement platform of the global construction machinery was held at the Munich International Convention and Exhibition Center. ZOOMLION (000157, stock bar) was the strong vehicle with dozens of construction machinery products, such as the world's longest pump truck, the 101 meter carbon fiber brace pump truck, and so on. The exhibition was launched in BMW.

Chinese companies took part in the BMW Exhibition for the first time in 1995, when there was only one loader. The participants recalled, was Chinese technical personnel to Germany booth "learn", ask if you can take pictures, the German business group responsible person replied, "you can use the camera throughout recorded", the German added, "anyway, and then how you learn and never do."

This sentence has stimulated Chinese engineers. More than ten years, the global construction machinery showed a dramatic change of the world's longest pump, the world's largest crane, the world's largest roller and a series of products have been in the Chinese enterprise "flower", especially the global top three concrete machinery -- Germany, Germany, Italy Shi elephant win match method have been Sany (600031, shares), Xugong (000425, shares), ZOOMLION into their arms.

"The whole world construction machinery before the 90s of the last century is dominated by the US, Europe and Japan. China's construction machinery has no own voice and has no own status." Zhan Chunxin, chairman of ZOOMLION, told China Economic Weekly. "Now, we are not competing for status in China, but for China's position."

Former Vice Minister of the Ministry of machinery industry Liu Yansun said: "the national construction, a lot of construction machinery to use, we must have their own ability to build their own country, we should continue to achieve our goal of building a new equipment, so as to achieve the economic, safe and reliable."

In the past 18 years, the total output value of China's engineering machinery has reached 600 billion yuan, and China has also become an important host country for the BMW exhibition. The appearance of large tonnage engineering machinery, such as mine dump truck, super crane and so on from China, has attracted the attention of the global merchants.

At the same time, more and more "made in China" are going out of the world

The San Francisco Bay Bridge in the United States is a landmark building on the shoulder of the eastern coast of Statue of Liberty. A massive earthquake in 1989 caused the 77 year old bridge to be badly damaged. Americans have asserted that whoever has the ability to build the bridge will be able to build all the steel structures in the world. In the competition with the international manufacturing power, in 2006, the Americans finally gave the steel structure of the bridge to the Chinese enterprise, Zhenhua heavy industry (600320, the stock bar). The bridge construction experts in China have opened the door of the developed countries in the world.

Guan Xiyou, chairman of Shenyang machine tool group (000410, Guba), can't forget the experience 10 years ago. At that time, enterprises were struggling in the process of getting rid of difficulties in state-owned enterprises. He decided to go to Chicago international machine tool exhibition to investigate, "no less than 20 years ahead of the world's leading industry at least." After coming back, Guan Xiyou said, they began to move into the field of intelligent CNC machine tools.

"I give money for money, I give it monthly, year to year." When you start to put in, the more difficult it is. " Guan Xiyou said that no matter how many difficulties the R & D team is facing, he always provides enough R & D funds for the team and smashed hundreds of millions, but he never meddle in the research and development work, because he firmly believes that intelligence is the core of future industrial manufacturing.

In August 2012, after 5 years of unremitting efforts, the world's first intelligent CNC machine tool was born, and Guan Xi you are so excited that it is a little "not to believe".

With the birth of the "brain" of the CNC machine tool developed by the Chinese, the Chinese have entered the top club of the global machine tool manufacturers.

Such changes have also made the international opponents very much concerned. The chief executive of well-known enterprises in the global machine tool Makino came to Shenyang after laments, Chinese machine manufacturing enterprise is a worthy opponent".

In 2009, the global economic downturn, the total output value of China's equipment manufacturing exceeded the United States, becoming the world's largest manufacturing country.

Innovation driven productivity, China's equipment manufacturing industry total economic total for four consecutive years the world's first

Construction machinery, mechanical and electrical products, CNC machine tools, port equipment, ship manufacturing and many other industries, the production and marketing of China are all in the forefront of the world. Many groups of data show that China's equipment manufacturing economy has been ranked first in the world for four years in a row. However, "made in China" all over the world has long been regarded as a pronoun of low quality, low price, labor-intensive, and low scientific and technological content.

Miao Wei, Minister of industry and information technology, bluntly said, "we have made great progress in equipment manufacturing industry in recent years. From the scale, we are already a big country in the equipment industry, but on the whole, there are still big but not strong problems."

In October 2013, the State Council issued the guiding opinions on resolving the serious excess capacity contradiction. It pointed out that the capacity of steel, cement, electrolytic aluminum, flat glass, ship and other industries is seriously overloaded, and these industries are all related to the equipment manufacturing industry.

Take ship as an example, during the period of "11th Five-Year", China's shipbuilding industry (600150 shares) was hit by financial crisis, and the problem of overcapacity is very prominent. In 2012, Chinese shipbuilding to bulk cargo ship on behalf of the low-end products in the world in almost The whole army was wiped out., 100 ship LNG high-end transport ship orders, Chinese enterprises only got 4 ship orders and manufacturing capacity of more South Korea won 90 ships.

LNG is the special ships carrying liquefied natural gas, the manufacturing process is extremely difficult, the world only a few countries to master the technology, enterprises can only China manufacturing high-end LNG transport ship is Hudong Zhonghua shipbuilding group.

"To ensure national energy security and not rely on leased LNG ships, China must have its own capacity to build." Hudong Zhonghua shipbuilding group general manager Wang Yong told the "China Economic Weekly", "ten years ago, Japan for us (technical) blockade, Koreans even more bluntly, he said, do you know what is LNG? It sounds uncomfortable. There's no way to do it myself. It took us almost 7 years to develop the first ship. Today, we have reached the international level, and it takes two years to build a LNG ship. "

"In 2012, China's equipment manufacturing industry profit margin increased by 5.18%, and 10 years ago was 28%, what is the cause of the profit decline? The demand is slow. " Cai Weici, vice president of the China Machinery Industry Federation, said, "China's equipment manufacturing industry is at the present low end, low end, and imminent transformation and innovation."

As for why the innovation, Chinese Mechanical Science Research Institute Vice President Qu Xianming, it is simple, he said, "now we have most of the industry technology level and abroad is very close, other countries to sell you the technology, it will influence the market, which requires self innovation."

Su Bo, Vice Minister of the Ministry of industry and information, said that the competition between countries is, in essence, the competition of the equipment manufacturing industry between countries. At present, the competition in the high-end equipment manufacturing industry is actually the core of the game of great powers.

The "world most" created by China's equipment manufacturing industry

The largest film LNG ship in the world

In April 2008, China's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship "Dapeng sun" in Shanghai, the successful delivery of the owner, this is Hudong Zhonghua shipbuilding (Group) the world's largest film type LNG ship built limited company.

The largest single arm hoisting ship in the world?

In May 2008, Zhenhua heavy weight successful delivery of the world's largest "blue whale" 7500 tons of Single Jib rotary self-propelled floating crane. A heavy ship is a special ship which is placed from one place to another in the water, and it is a very popular equipment for offshore engineering such as oil and gas field exploitation.

World's largest crawler crane

In July 2013, Xugong Group and Sinopec tenth Construction Co., Ltd. jointly developed a single crawler crane with the most lifting capacity in the world, the 4000 ton crane was successfully launched.

The longest pump car in the world

In July 2013, the world longest arm concrete pump truck, the ZOOMLION 101 meter carbon fiber brachial pump truck, was built in the center of the first high-rise building in Central China, which is the first world show in the Guinness world record. The first official show is Wuhan.