China'S Textile Machinery Imports Increased By 4.7% Over The First Half Of 08 Years.

According to customs statistics, in the first half of this year, China's total import of textile machinery and parts (hereinafter referred to as textile machinery) amounted to 2 billion 380 million US dollars, compared with the same period last year (the same below), an increase of 4.7%, the growth rate dropped 26.1 percentage points, of which, in June, imports of 410 million US dollars, an increase of 11.1%.

The main features of its imports are: 1. Import is mainly in the general trade mode, and foreign investment in imported equipment has declined.

In the first half of this year, China imported $1 billion 400 million of textile machinery in general trade mode, an increase of 3.6%, an increase of 54.2 percentage points, accounting for 58.8% of the total imports of textile machinery in the same period. Foreign invested enterprises imported 1.4% US dollars, or 28.6%, as imported equipment.

Two. Imports of foreign invested enterprises are still dominant, and imports from state-owned and private enterprises are decreasing.

In the first half of this year, foreign-invested enterprises imported $1 billion 70 million of textile machinery, an increase of 3.5%, accounting for 45% of the total imports of textile machinery in the same period. In the same period, private enterprises imported 620 million US dollars, down 0.8%, and state-owned enterprises imported 490 million US dollars, down 0.1%.

Three, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong are the major importing provinces.

In the first half of this year, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong imported textile machinery 550 million US dollars, 510 million US dollars and 420 million US dollars respectively, an increase of 8.5%, a decrease of 17.3% and a decrease of 15.3%.

The total of the 3 provinces accounted for 62.2% of the total imports of textile machinery in the same period.

Four, mainly imported from the European Union and Japan.

In the first half of this year, our country imported textile machinery from the European Union to US $1 billion 180 million, an increase of 12.2%, accounting for 49.8% of the total imports of textile machinery in the same period. Since Japan imported US $820 million, it grew by 13.4%, accounting for 34.4%.

In the first half of this year, the main reasons for the slowdown in import growth of China's textile machinery were: 1. The decline in industry boom led to prudent investment and the drop in demand for textile machinery.

Recently, many factors such as the subprime mortgage crisis, the appreciation of the renminbi and the rising production cost have superimposed on each other. The overall prosperity of China's textile industry has declined, the investment of enterprises has been cautious, and the import demand for textile machinery has been reduced.

According to statistics of the China Textile Industry Association, in the 1-5 month of this year, the total investment in fixed assets of 5 million yuan or more in the textile industry was 91 billion 700 million yuan, an increase of 16.8%, an increase of 13.1 percentage points.

Two. The regional pfer of textile industry has not yet formed an upsurge, and the new demand for machinery and equipment is not strong.

Affected by the adjustment of preferential policies such as labor and processing trade, domestic coastal textile production enterprises are gradually moving to the inland, central and western regions.

The central and western regions not only have abundant textile raw material resources, but also have great comparative advantages in labor, electricity and other costs, but at present, industrial pfer has not yet formed an upsurge, and the new demand for textile machinery and equipment is also not strong.

What is worth noting is that at present, there is still a big gap between China's textile machinery and the international manufacturing level in terms of numerical control level and reliability of key components, and high-end textile equipment still needs to rely on imports.

After the introduction of equipment, the installation, commissioning, maintenance, updating and upgrading of domestic enterprises are still completed by foreign technicians and experts. Foreign suppliers restrict the digestion, absorption and improvement of equipment manufacturing technology in China in order to monopolize and control high-end textile equipment manufacturing technology, adopt password protection locking device management procedures, remote control equipment maintenance and strict confidentiality of key technical data.

Therefore, China's textile enterprises are difficult to introduce related technologies when importing high-end textile equipment, which also has a strong constraint on the overall improvement of the textile industry's technological level.

For this reason, we should advise domestic textile manufacturers to strengthen the technical cooperation with foreign companies while importing high-end textile equipment, and digest and absorb the key technologies of high-end textile equipment; and encourage domestic textile machinery manufacturing enterprises with independent R & D capability to grasp the international frontiers of textile machinery research and development through joint research and development or join international technology alliances, so as to enhance the overall technical level of China's textile machinery and equipment.