Chinese material handling (hoisting and transportation) machinery industry has been established since the 1950s and 1990s and has gradually developed and grown. It has formed a variety of product ranges and a huge enterprise group, serving all walks of life in the national economy. In the latest edition of the "National Economic Industry Classification Standard", the lifting and transportation equipment manufacturing industry is in the middle category of the industry. Class, about *** varieties and specifications.
Among them, the hoisting machinery products mainly include: light and small lifting equipment (jacks, chain hoists, electric hoists, winches, etc.), bridge cranes (bridge cranes, gantry cranes, etc.), jib cranes (portal cranes, etc.) , tower cranes, mobile cranes, etc.), cable cranes, lifting machinery (lifts, lifting work platforms, ship lifts); the main products of storage machinery include: roadway stacking cranes, special storage equipment, automated three-dimensional warehouses, mechanical parking equipment, etc.
According to the statistics of China Heavy Machinery Association, since the first year, China's hoisting and transportation machinery manufacturing industry has maintained rapid growth for the first consecutive year, and its product output ranks among the top in the world. In the ** year, the number of enterprises above designated size in my country's material handling machinery manufacturing industry is about **, including the largest number of lifting equipment enterprises; the annual output value is more than 100 million yuan.
It should be pointed out that as of **, because the National Bureau of Statistics has not subdivided statistics on the sub-categories of the lifting and transportation (material handling) machinery industry, the Heavy Machinery Association can only analyze its own statistical data as a material handling The most important sub-industry of the (hoisting and transportation) industry, the total output value of the hoisting machinery manufacturing industry accounts for about ***% of the total output value of the material handling (hoisting and transportation) industry. The overall sales scale reached *** billion.
From the perspective of import and export: with the continuous, stable and rapid development of my country's economy, the slowdown of economic development in Europe and the United States and the increase in the exchange rate of RMB, the growth rate of my country's imports is much greater than that of exports: from January to January of **, material handling machinery The export volume is *** billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of ***%, the import volume is *** billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of ***%, the total import and export volume is *** billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of ***%, and the import and export surplus is ***USD, year-over-year growth -***%. Among them, the import of industrial vehicles, light and small lifting equipment and material handling equipment parts increased significantly, with year-on-year growth of ***%, ***% and ***% respectively, and the import growth was meaningful, respectively ** *%, -***% and ***%; while the export of cranes was the opposite, down ***% compared to the same period in **, while the import increased by ***%.
This shows at least two problems: First, the international market is affected by the trough of the economic cycle, and investment has slowed down temporarily. However, in order to ensure the sustained, rapid and stable growth of the domestic economy, the driving role of investment is prominent, and the demand for foreign advanced products has further increased; Second, my country's competitiveness in industrial vehicles, light and small lifting equipment is getting stronger and stronger, and the trend of replacing imports is more obvious. However, the demand for foreign material handling equipment parts continues to grow, which shows that my country still has a long way to go to transform from a major country to a strong lifting country. The core technology of a large number of cranes is still controlled by foreign countries, and some key parts of lifting machinery Components also had to rely on imports.
Comprehensive analysis, in recent years, although the lifting and transportation industry has suffered the impact of the financial crisis, it still shows a rapid growth trend as a whole, which fully verifies the long-term sustainability of the machinery industry growth cycle under the state of steady economic growth; at the same time, due to the The products of this industry belong to the basic equipment manufacturing industry and are applicable to a wide range of fields. Most of the products are used in the construction of infrastructure, basic industries and logistics and warehousing facilities, and have strong anti-risk capabilities. In particular, the market demand for high-end lifting products is showing a rigid demand.