In the first half of 2013, the export value of metal processing machine tools was US$1.38 billion, accounting for 67.8% of total machine tool exports. The export value of metal processing machine tools increased by 1.71% year-on-year, which was lower than the overall export growth rate of machine tools. This was the main factor that caused the slowdown in the overall export growth of China's machine tools. Among them, exports of CNC machine tools were 340 million U.S. dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 9.56%, while exports of machining centers and combination machine tools saw a significant increase, at 3.3% and 9.69%, respectively.

From the perspective of export markets, in the first half of 2013, China’s major machine tool export markets remained the markets of Asia and Europe and the United States and Europe. The export markets in Asia and North America grew by 7.45% and 16.76%, respectively. The European market was affected by the economic downturn and exports did not increase. Against the decline, the decline was 4.53% and the market share slightly changed, but the overall change was modest. Asia and Europe and the United States still account for about 40% of their exports, while the remaining 20% ​​are occupied by markets such as Latin America and Africa.

In the first half of 2013, China imported a total of 53,000 machine tools, a year-on-year decrease of 16%; the import amount was US$5.7 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 17.6%; and the import unit price was US$107,000 per unit, a year-on-year decrease of 1.44%.

China's non-metal processing machine tools have a higher level of manufacturing and import volume; the vast majority of imported machine tools are metal processing machine tools. In the first half of 2013, the import value of metal processing machine tools was US$5.25 billion, accounting for 92% of the import value of all machine tool products. The average unit price of a machine tool is 107,000 US dollars, which is nearly 450 times the average export price of 240 US dollars; the average unit price of imported metal processing machine tools is as much as 137,000 US dollars, while the average price of domestic metal cutting machine tools is only 317 US dollars. From the import market and country perspective, the structure of China's machine tool import market is still dominated by Asia and Europe, with imports accounting for nearly 95% of the total. However, the market structure has been dominated by more than 60% of the previous Asia, becoming a European market. Yaping divided autumn.

At present, the technological level of the world's machine tools is mainly driven by the production of CNC machine sheets. The development in the next 20 years will also be the case. On the basis of further improving accuracy, efficiency, automation, intelligence, and networking, the company has gradually transitioned to processing units and cutting-edge flexible manufacturing systems.

While the Chinese machine tool industry has experienced the development process of learning, imitating, and independent innovation, there is still a considerable gap between accuracy, efficiency, automation, intelligence, environmental protection, and foreign advanced level. The lack of high-speed, high-precision, composite, and intelligent high-level numerically-controlled machine tools has caused the lack of commonality and key technologies to make the domestic machine tool industry's low-end melee and high-end failings still have not been fundamentally reversed.