If you use a sentence to explain the importance of the machine tool industry, what will you think of? It is “the tool of making” and “the foundation of self-improvement”, and it is a basic industry related to the overall situation of national strategic security and development.

For the machine tool industry, the upgrading of the industrial base has always been the difficulty and focus that can not be avoided, and the core components of high-end equipment can not be separated from the accumulation of process manufacturing foundation.

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Therefore, the machine tool industry is a key industry that determines a country’s manufacturing capacity and industrial efficiency. The purpose of a new round of large-scale equipment renewal is precisely this: it has brought new opportunities for the high-end and intelligent development of industrial machines, and with the innovation and empowerment of industrial machines, it also provides a broad space for the transformation and upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry.

Old bottles of new wine supply and demand two-way force

The “Action Plan for Promoting large-scale equipment renewal and replacing old consumer goods with new ones” issued by The State Council (hereinafter referred to as the “Action Plan”) proposes that the focus will be on the implementation of four major actions: equipment renewal, replacing old consumer goods with new ones, recycling and recycling, and upgrading standards, and support equipment for energy saving and carbon reduction, ultra-low emissions, safe production, digital transformation, and intelligent upgrading from the policy level.

“With the strong support of the large-scale equipment renewal policy, the investment in the purchase of equipment and appliances is growing well.” Luo Yifei, chief statistician of the investment Department of the National Bureau of Statistics, said that from January to May this year, the purchase of equipment and equipment investment increased by 17.5% year-on-year, the growth rate was 0.3 percentage points faster than that of January to April, 13.5 percentage points higher than the total investment; The contribution rate to the total investment growth was 52.8%, 2.0 percentage points higher than that in January-April.

According to Li Yanxia, chief engineer of the China Machinery Industry Federation, China’s equipment update action is not the first implementation, and has experienced four cycles of adjustment.

The first round was from the end of 1982 to the beginning of 1991, when China’s economy was undergoing a rapid transformation from a planned economy to a market economy in the early stage of reform and opening up. In order to improve production efficiency and promote industrial upgrading, China urgently needs to introduce and update modern equipment, especially in the fields of manufacturing and infrastructure construction.

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The second round occurred from mid-1991 to early 2002, when China’s economy entered a stage of rapid development. With the acceleration of global economic integration and increasingly fierce competition in the international market, China has actively participated in international trade and investment. Equipment renewal involves the upgrading of high-tech industries such as electronic information and machinery manufacturing, as well as traditional industries such as steel and chemical industry.

The third round was from mid-2002 to 2012, after China’s accession to the WTO, the pace of economic globalization accelerated, and the domestic industrial structure was further optimized and upgraded, which promoted the growth of equipment renewal demand. Sustained global economic growth and vigorous international trade and investment have provided a sound external environment for China. Among them, the four trillion investment plan, home appliances to the countryside, automobiles to the countryside, etc., prompted enterprises and individuals to purchase large-scale updated equipment.

The fourth round is from September 2016 to 2021. Due to the impact of the global financial crisis, China’s economy is facing downward pressure. Expanding domestic demand and stabilizing economic growth through equipment upgrading and industrial upgrading has become an important measure, actively promoting domestic industrial upgrading and independent innovation, adjusting traditional industries such as steel, nonferrous metals and chemicals, and promoting enterprises to upgrade equipment.

“In the past, mainly from the demand side, the core is to promote consumption and expand domestic demand. The difference this time round is that industrial equipment and machinery at the production end are also included in the scope of policy implementation.” Li Yanxia pointed out that the “action plan” from both sides of the supply and demand, from solving the “no” upgrade to focus on the “good”, adhere to the standard guidance, better play the traction role of energy consumption, emissions, technology and other standards, green low-carbon, intelligent, information will be used as the standard or object of the implementation of subsidies.