Qingdao's Machinery Industry Will Maintain A Relatively Fast Growth.

Many years later, countless mechanical enterprises will fondly recall the golden age of the first ten years of twenty-first Century.

Most of the raw materials of mechanical products are iron and steel. In recent years, the price of steel has been rising continuously and substantially, but it can not hinder the vigorous development of the domestic machinery industry.

According to the relevant departments of the state, as of October 2007, the machinery industry has maintained a growth rate of more than 18% for 58 consecutive months, while 1229 mechanical enterprises in our city achieved sales revenue of 138 billion 200 million yuan last year, an increase of 28% over the same period last year, and realized a profit of 7 billion 100 million yuan, an increase of 56% over the same period last year.

The rapid growth of the domestic machinery industry in recent years mainly comes from four reasons. First, the demand for equipment is very strong in the industrialized era. Secondly, the process of new rural construction and urbanization is accelerating. Third, economic globalization and international industrial pfer will further provide impetus. Fourth, the policy effect of national revitalization of equipment manufacturing industry is increasingly apparent.

Under such a big background, the machinery industry in our city has entered the fastest development period in history, especially in some industries.

For example, last year, our container manufacturing industry realized a profit of 88 million 10 thousand yuan, an increase of 133.6% over the same period last year. The railway locomotive and rolling stock manufacturing industry realized a profit of 162 million 110 thousand yuan, an increase of 126.7% over the same period last year, and the shipbuilding industry realized a profit of 224 million 390 thousand yuan, up 132.7% over the same period last year.

What is particularly heartening is that the trend of the development of our machinery industry is becoming stronger in recent years.

Last year, the automobile industrial cluster with FAW Qingdao automobile factory and SAIC GM Wuling Qingdao branch as the leading group realized industrial sales revenue of 19 billion 970 million yuan, an increase of 30.7% compared with the same period last year. The shipbuilding industry cluster, which is led by Beihai heavy industries and Qingdao shipyard, achieved a sales income of 5 billion 520 million yuan, an increase of 96.5%. The locomotive industrial cluster, which is led by South car Sifang and Sifang locomotive and rolling stock company, achieved sales income of 10 billion 450 million yuan, an increase of 58.3% over the same period last year.

Experts pointed out that, at least until 2010, the domestic machinery industry will continue to maintain rapid growth even if the prices of production factors such as raw materials, energy, labor and logistics are rising again and again, and macroeconomic regulation and control, sub debt crisis and RMB appreciation will continue to exert pressure on the industry.

So how can Qingdao's machinery industry seize the historical opportunity and take advantage of it? The head of the Municipal Economic and Trade Commission said that optimizing the product mix, improving the innovation ability and changing the way of development are the current realistic choices of our machinery industry.

The official admitted that there are still three prominent problems in the machinery industry of our city: the contradiction between product structure is prominent, the supply of products at a low level is in excess of demand, the products of large scale, heavy equipment and special equipment are lacking, and the ability of independent innovation is not strong. The innovation of most enterprises is still dominated by the improvement of old products, the depth of independent innovation is not enough, R & D investment is far lower than the advanced level of foreign countries, and the industrial chain system of "leading enterprise supporting system - Industrial Cluster" is not perfect enough.

Facts have proved that only those enterprises with high gross margin and high added value products can face the cost pressure calmly. For example, in the machine tool industry, when the price of steel rises by 15%, the net profit of the enterprises producing high-precision, large and heavy machine tools will be reduced by about 5%, while the net profit of the enterprises producing ordinary machine tools will be reduced by about 10%.

Reporters learned from the Municipal Economic and Trade Commission that our city will push ahead with the development of large and heavy duty complete sets of equipment and special equipment with prominent core competitiveness and strong core competitiveness, and at the same time, play the leading role of these big enterprises to drive SMEs to upgrade their products.

The production of high value-added products is inseparable from strong independent innovation capability.

In the future, our city will continue to encourage enterprises to increase investment in science and technology and enhance their innovative ability through the implementation of relevant policies.

For high tech products and key technology products in key industries such as automobiles, locomotives, shipbuilding, foundry machinery and so on, our city will focus on promoting enterprises to master core technologies through independent research and development, import technology digestion and absorption, and shorten the gap between advanced technology and foreign countries.

In promoting the machinery industry to accelerate the pformation of development mode, the city will continue to focus on the development of clustering.

The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Economic and Trade Commission told reporters that our city will choose some large enterprises and large projects to promote them to extend to the high value-added industrial chain, take the hair production equipment manufacturing service industry, take the lead in establishing an innovation platform and technology alliance, take the lead in implementing energy conservation and emission reduction and green manufacturing, so as to form cluster advantages as soon as possible.

According to the analysis of relevant departments in our city, this year's machinery industry will continue to maintain a relatively fast growth rate, but the growth rate may be slower than that of last year due to the impact of rising costs and barriers to trade. It is estimated that the total output value of the machinery industry in the whole city will increase by about 25%, and the profit will increase by about 20%.