"In 2016, the economic operation of the machinery industry continued the trend of low level stabilization since the fourth quarter of last year, and the operation was basically stable throughout the year." Chen Bin, executive vice president of China Machinery Industry Federation, said in an exclusive interview with China industry news recently that under the guidance of made in China 2025 and relevant policies, the operation of the industry was generally stable, and the growth rate rebounded, The development trend is generally good. At the same time, with the deepening of structural adjustment, the market environment facing the development of the industry is still severe, the deep-seated contradictions within the industry are becoming more and more prominent, and the task of industrial transformation and upgrading is more arduous.
Chen Bin pointed out that the growth rate in 2016 exceeded the expectations at the beginning of the year. It is expected that the growth rate of the added value of the machinery industry in the whole year will be higher than that of the national industry and manufacturing industry. The main business income and profit basically maintain synchronous growth, and the export growth will strive to be better than last year (- 3.36%).
Looking forward to 2017, Chen Bin said that the machinery industry will take the implementation of made in China 2025 as the starting point, take the market as the guidance, take the enterprise as the main body, take innovation as the foundation, vigorously promote the structural adjustment, transformation and upgrading, cost reduction and efficiency increase of the machinery industry on the basis of maintaining the stable development of the machinery industry, and strive to achieve the healthy development of the industry.
The growth rate rebounded more than expected
Chen Bin pointed out that since 2016, the growth rate of main economic indicators of the machinery industry has generally rebounded on the basis of the low level of the previous year, and the growth rate has exceeded the expectations at the beginning of the year. From January to October, the growth rate of added value of machinery industry increased by 9.3% year-on-year, higher than the growth rate of added value of industry and manufacturing industry in the same period, an increase of 4.1 percentage points over the same period of last year; The main business income increased by 7.22% year-on-year, an increase of 4.22 percentage points over the same period of last year; The profit increased by 7.19% year-on-year, an increase of 6 percentage points over the same period of last year.
As of October, there were 85700 Enterprises above Designated Size in the machinery industry, accounting for 22.72% of the national industry; The main business income was 19.51 trillion yuan, accounting for 21.19% of the national industry; The total profit was 1.29 trillion yuan, accounting for 24.49% of the national industry, contributing to the steady growth of the national industry.
In the severe market competition, enterprises comply with the direction of national industrial structure adjustment, strive to develop marketable products, and have a good development momentum.
The output of products closely related to consumption and environmental protection maintained growth. From January to October, the production and sales of automobiles were 22.016 million and 22.0172 million respectively, with a year-on-year increase of 13.79% and 13.83%. The growth of environmental protection products was prominent. From January to October, the special equipment for environmental pollution prevention and control increased by 21.17% year-on-year; Internal combustion forklifts related to logistics storage consumption increased by 11.3%, electric forklifts increased by 2.64% and special packaging equipment increased by 4.19% year-on-year.
The sales of products related to new energy and intelligent manufacturing increased rapidly. From January to October, the production and sales of new energy vehicles were 355000 and 337000 respectively, with a year-on-year increase of 77.9% and 82.2% respectively. In the first half of the year, the sales of domestic industrial robots were 19000, a year-on-year increase of 70.8%.
Driven by national key transmission channel construction projects, accelerating the construction and transformation of distribution network and a new round of rural power grid transformation and upgrading projects, power transmission and transformation related products maintained growth. Electrical instruments increased by 15.55%, transformers related to power transmission and transformation increased by 6.77%, power capacitors increased by 12.48%, high-voltage switchboards increased by 8.84%, high-voltage switchgear (above 110000V) increased by 16.74%, optical cables increased by 15.49% and steel strands increased by 12.43%.
Steady progress was made in building innovation capacity
Under the guidance of relevant industrial policies such as the "made in China 2025" power strategy, the transformation, upgrading, innovation and development of the machinery industry continued to advance.