Growing in the ups and downs of Chinese construction machinery in the past 10 years

Despite the impact of the international financial crisis in 2008 and the large-scale entry of foreign brands into the Chinese market, the rapid development of China's construction machinery industry has not changed, and it has been growing ups and downs.

Lv Ying, director of the Statistical Information Department of the China National Engineering Machinery Industry Association, explained that China's construction machinery industry started relatively late and its rapid development was after the reform and opening up. The 10 years since the party’s 16th National Congress was convened was a golden period for the rapid development of China's construction machinery industry. China's construction machinery manufacturing enterprises have learned from foreign advanced experience, have the courage to explore and innovate, and have rapidly expanded their scale.

A set of data can clearly reflect the development and changes of China's construction machinery industry in the past 10 years: From the perspective of operating income, in 2001, the national construction machinery industry was only 56 billion yuan, and in 2011 it reached 546.5 billion yuan, an increase of nearly 10 times. From the perspective of business scale, in 2001, large construction machinery companies only had annual sales of 1.2 billion yuan; in 2011, there were 3 companies with annual sales exceeding 80 billion yuan, and 12 companies had annual sales of more than 10 billion yuan. Yuan's company has more than 100 companies with annual sales of more than 100 million yuan. It is worth mentioning that since 2006, the annual growth rate of construction machinery industry sales has been above 20%.

Large-scale construction machinery has complex manufacturing technology, is difficult to manufacture, has small production quantities, high value, and has large operating risks. Many construction machinery companies are afraid to get involved. Because of the national large-scale infrastructure, petrochemical, metallurgy, electric power and other construction projects, the national “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” has established the development goal of research and development of large-scale construction machinery and equipment urgently needed by the country.

With the support of a series of industrial policies and fiscal policies of the country, a group of key enterprises have now been able to manufacture 26 types of construction machinery common in the international market, and their quality is not inferior to foreign products. Among them, large crawler cranes, all-terrain cranes, large bulldozers, large-scale concrete pump trucks, pavers and other products are sold around the world.

The market share of China's construction machinery products has been greatly improved in 10 years. Lv Ying said that 10 years ago, many mechanical products were not available at home; there was a large gap between the existing construction machinery products and international products; the industry was very small, the production technology was backward, and foreign brands entered the national brands. The market share in the construction machinery market is only about 5%. After 10 years of development, our country's construction machinery products have grown from nothing, and we have already established scale production.

Relevant data show that in 2001, the output of China’s excavators was only 12,000 units, and in 2011 there were about 160,000 units; in 2001, there were only a few dozen crawler cranes, and the amount of cranes was all under 100 tons, and now the maximum amount of cranes lifted Up to 3,000 tons; According to the number of sales, in 2007 China's construction machinery products sales in the world, from 2009 to this year's sales revenue in the world.

Lv Ying believes that in the past 10 years, many construction machinery enterprises in China have “taked a step” to go abroad. Relevant data show that in 2001, the export value of China's construction machinery was 690 million U.S. dollars and the import value was 1.55 billion U.S. dollars. In 2011, the export value of China's construction machinery was 15.91 billion U.S. dollars and the import value was 9.05 billion U.S. dollars.