Recently, the China Machinery Industry Federation (hereinafter referred to as “CIMC”) published data on the import and export of China's machine tool industry from January to June 2011. In the first half of the year, the general trade of the machine tool industry in China completed a total of US$9.2 billion in import and export trade. The year-on-year increase was 54.64%, of which total value of imports was 6.527 billion US dollars, up 62.92% year-on-year; total exports value was 2.763 billion US dollars, up 38.06% year-on-year. The growth rate of the total value of imports continued to increase, while the growth rate of the total value of imports and exports and the total value of exports fell from January to May.

On the import side, companies with different types of holdings have grown at a rate of more than half, and private enterprises have enjoyed the fastest growth, with growth rates exceeding 90%, but they have continued to decline, and their growth rate has fallen by more than 12% compared with the previous month. The growth of general trade exports lagged behind imports. Among them, the exports of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises rose slightly, and the growth rate of foreign-funded enterprises continued to decline. A total of 27 provinces and cities across the country achieved growth in imports and exports, of which the top five provinces and cities were: Jiangsu Province, Guangdong Province, Shanghai City, Zhejiang Province and Shandong Province, compared with last month, Jiangsu Province, Guangdong Province, and Shanghai City. The status of Zhejiang Province and Zhejiang Province cannot be shaken, and Shandong Province is the fifth place to replace Beijing.

Imports and exports grew steadily, and the growth rate of imports dropped significantly. According to the statistical data of China Machine Link, in the first half of 2011, the total value of the import and export of the machine tool industry reached US$99 million, an increase of 33.99% year-on-year, and the growth rate has declined. Among them, the total value of imports was US$19 million, an increase of 65.59% year-on-year, and the total value of exports was US$81 million, a year-on-year increase of 28.25% and a surplus of US$62 million. The growth rate of processing trade has continued to decline in recent months, but the growth rate of imports still exceeds exports by more than double and the trade surplus shows a narrowing trend.

From January to June, there were a total of 73 importing countries (regions) in China's machine tool industry, an increase of 4 countries over the same period of last year. The largest import amount was Japan, and the import amount reached 4.175 billion US dollars, an increase of 92.87% over the same period of last year. Declined last month. Followed by Germany and Taiwan, they increased by 43.11% and 22.88% respectively. Switzerland replaced South Korea's rise to fourth place, an increase of 207.66% compared to the same period last year. In the first half of 2011, although the growth rate decreased month by month, the average growth rate of China’s imports to Japan remained above 90%, and the dependence of China’s machine tool industry on Japan was fully reflected.

In terms of exports, the number of exporting countries (regions) in China's machine tool industry from January to June was 187, which was lower than that of the same period of last year. The most frequent export trade still occurred in the United States. The cumulative export amount in the first half of the year was 462 million U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 35.90. %. The top five countries (regions) in exports have remained unchanged from the same period of last year. They are still the United States, Japan, Germany, India, and Hong Kong. Exports to the Taiwan region have increased by 97.98%, a rapid increase. In addition to these traditional big countries, China’s exports to the Russian Federation and Brazil have also increased by more than 70%, which is a significant increase over the previous month.

The export volume of processing centers increased significantly from January to June, and the decline in the import and export of fixtures and machine tool accessories continued to expand, dropping by 30.01% and 30.74%, respectively, and all other products' imports and exports increased. In terms of imports, the growth rate of polishing machines and non-metal processing machines was more than 1 times that of the same period of last year. Compared with the previous month, the growth rate of casting machines decreased significantly. Compared with January to May, only the growth rate of the tool increased slightly, and the growth rate of other products decreased. The decline in casting machinery was most obvious, reaching 43.65%. Combined machine tools and grinders have also experienced a decline in import growth of more than 20%. In terms of exports, the export volume of processing centers grew at a rapid rate, reaching more than three times of the same period of last year. In June alone, the export volume of processing centers reached 47.77 million US dollars. Compared with the previous month, the export of metal processing machines this month was affected by the sharp increase in exports from processing centers, and the growth rate increased significantly. While the low-end products such as abrasives and knives, the export growth rate has declined.

In the first half of the year, the cumulative import value of China's CNC machine tools was 4.65 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 54.83%, accounting for 76.48% of the total metal processing machine tools, and accounted for 44.81% of the total import value of all machine tool products, which was not significantly different from the previous month. The amount of deficit for various products has expanded month by month, and the dependence of CNC machine tools on foreign products has remained unabated.

China's imports of CNC machine tools are mainly based on machining centers. In the first half of the year, the cumulative import value reached US$2.285 billion, accounting for 49.13% of the total value of all CNC machine tools imports, and the proportion increased by 2.62% over the same period of last year. The imports of other CNC products also increased by more than 25%. Among them, the import growth rate of CNC grinding machines reached 85.64%, which is the highest among all products. The growth rate of CNC forging, punching, bending, folding, straightening, leveling, shearing, punching or slotting machine tools also increased. The CNC gear cutting machine, gear grinding machine, or gear finishing machine tool fell from 201.18% in January to May to 27.98% this month, showing a significant decrease. In addition, numerical control machines for processing various materials using electric discharge, CNC lathes, CNC drilling machines, and boring machines The decline in the growth rate of the milling machine is also more pronounced.

With regard to the export of CNC machine tools, there is a large gap between the amount and the import, and there is also a large gap between the growth rate. The processing machine tools, CNC grinders, and CNC machine tools have been used to increase the output of processing machine tools that discharge various materials by more than 1 times, while CNC drilling machines, boring machines, Milling machines experienced negative growth in the first half of the year.

In the first half of the year, the price of imported products in the machine tool industry increased rapidly, and the import prices of grinders, polishing machines, and non-metal processing machine tools all increased by more than one time. In terms of exports, the average growth rate was weaker than that of imports, and the prices of machine tools, machining centers, and polishing machines were relatively low. Year-on-year declines have been recorded in different degrees. The gap between import and export prices is obvious. The price gap between import and export of metal processing machine tools has reached 220 times, and the price gap of CNC machine tools has also reached 100 times. Instead of metal processing machine tools, the import price is 1,000 times that of export prices, and the gap between import and export prices has passed. Can reflect the gap in product quality.