Beijing No. 1 Machine Tool Plant developed a 10-meter CNC bridge-type gantry five-axis linkage turning and milling compound processing machine that can complete the processing of key parts of large-scale nuclear power plants.

- The world's largest 36,000-ton ferrous metal vertical extrusion machine developed by Inner Mongolia Northern Heavy Industry Group has solved key technologies such as mold design, transmission and control operation system design and manufacturing, and has broken the long-term dependence of imports and restrictions on large-diameter thick-walled tubes in China. The situation has caused Japan's similar products to significantly lower prices.

——The ultra-heavy-duty CNC floor-mounted milling and boring machine developed by Qiqihar Machine Tool Group can meet the requirements for the production of super-large parts and components in the fields of power generation, shipbuilding, and petrochemicals.

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The equipment manufacturing industry is known as the "industry mother machine" and is the cornerstone of the manufacturing industry. All types of facilities required for industrial modernization are inseparable from high-end CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment.

During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, with a series of breakthroughs in key technologies and the formation of independent production capabilities, China began to highlight the "heavy manufacturing" of "foreign manufacturing" and entered the ranks of the world's high-speed CNC machine tools and high-precision CNC machine tool producing countries.

“Over the past five years, the key tasks of the “High-end CNC Machine Tools and Basic Manufacturing Equipment Major Projects” have been successively completed. The Chinese machine tool industry has developed rapidly, and the output value and output have leapt to the top in the world. The domestic machine tool's numerical control rate has increased from 35.5% at the end of '15' to "51.9% at the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan," said Xu Wei, director of the Major Special Project Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Although our country has long been among the ranks of manufacturing powers, the contradiction of being big but not strong has always plagued the scientific development of the industry. IC chip manufacturing equipment, large-scale petrochemical equipment, key equipment for automobile manufacturing, and advanced intensive agricultural equipment have long depended on imports.

In order to reverse the situation of “big but not strong” as soon as possible and better adapt to the needs of changing economic development methods, “high-end CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment” have been included in the Outline of the National Medium and Long-Term Scientific and Technological Development Plan (2006-2020). One of the 16 major projects identified has shouldered the mission of developing high-end numerically-controlled machine tools for aerospace, shipbuilding, automobile manufacturing, and power generation equipment, and meeting the needs of major domestic industries.

According to the briefing, during the “11th Five-Year Plan” period, 268 “Projects for High-end CNC Machine Tools and Basic Manufacturing Equipment Major Projects” were established, with over RMB 9 billion of funds allocated and more than 10,000 R&D personnel involved. Of these, 82% were led by enterprises, and 88% were funded by the central government.

"In the implementation of major projects, the enterprises have truly become the main body of innovation and R&D. As the industry-leading enterprise, 'Beiyi' is committed to providing key basic equipment for the development of key national economic sectors. Our technological transformation investment will concentrate on national demand." Liu Yuling, Chief Engineer of the First Machine Tool Plant, told Xinhua News Agency reporters.

Wu Bolin, executive vice president of the China Machine Tool Industry Association, believes that in recent years, China's machine tool industry has further strengthened independent innovation and made positive progress in industrial restructuring and product upgrading.

The numerical control system is equivalent to the "brain" of a CNC machine tool. During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, I have developed multi-axis multi-channel and bus-type high-end numerical control devices in the CNC system. Wuhan Huazhong Numerical Control Co., Ltd., Shenyang High Precision CNC Technology Co., Ltd. and other units have completed the production of 50 sets of open all-digital high-end numerical control devices.

“In recent years, Huazhong CNC has begun to develop and develop its own innovative CNC technology. The technological progress achieved in 2010 alone is equivalent to the sum of the past 10 years,” said Chen Jihong of Wuhan Huazhong Numerical Control Co., Ltd.

Academician Lu Bingheng, head of the overall group of “Advanced Engineering Tools for High-end CNC Machine Tools and Basic Manufacturing Equipment,” said that at the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, China will implement supporting and coordinated development of CNC systems, functional components, and tools with the host, and master a batch of hosts. The core technology of CNC systems and key functional components.

According to the special plan, by 2020, about 80% of the high-end CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment required by China's aerospace, shipbuilding, automobile, and power generation equipment manufacturing facilities will be based in China. The overall technical level of high-end CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment has entered the international advanced ranks, and some products have taken the lead internationally.

Accelerating the transformation of economic development methods, the fundamental way out lies in independent innovation. With more and more breakthroughs in key technologies, localization of high-end CNC machine tools is no longer a dream.