China's equipment industry: independent innovation to hold up the dream of "manufacturing power" - the joys and sorrows of the development of China's equipment manufacturing industry's independent brand

(Xinhuanet, August 8 Reporter: Chen Yuming, Cai Yongjun, Wang Min)

The speed of the ship's telegraph is instantaneous; More than 100 years ago......, Chinese, who had just "opened his eyes to the world," was envious of Western manufacturing technology.
A strong country cannot do without a strong industry, and a strong industry is concentrated in the equipment manufacturing industry, which is the "mother machine of industry".
The sages may not have imagined that after more than 100 years, China, which was poor and weak at that time, has quietly become the "factory of the world", and China's self-made equipment is not only equipping China, but also beginning to go to all continents.
However, in order to become a *5656 "manufacturing power", China's equipment industry still has a long way to go.

China's equipment and equipment China's equipment manufacturing industry's own brand development situation is gratifying

Not long ago, in Changsha Sany Crane Industrial Park, a behemoth attracted the attention of reporters - this is the first domestic 1,000-ton machine that has just come off the assembly line and is eye-catching in the hoisting industryAll-terrain cranes。
"This big guy can lift 100 tons of things to a height of 80 meters, thus breaking the market monopoly of foreign super-large tonnage cranes of more than 500 tons." Zhao Xiangzhang, vice president of Sany Heavy Industry, said, "Previously, only Liebherr of Germany could produce this kind of 1,000-ton crane. ”
In fact, it is not Sany Heavy Industry that has shocked the world 5656 times: the large hydraulic excavator known as "Shenzhou *5656 digging", the 72-meter boom pump truck that won the Guinness World Record, and the microfoamed asphalt cement mortar truck that overcame the world's problems...... The development history of Sany is a history of the development of its own brand.
"When Sany Heavy Industry entered the construction machinery industry in 1994, more than 90% of the domestic market was firmly occupied by several multinational companies. Today, domestic brands have accounted for more than 95% of the domestic market. Comparing the past and the present, Xiang Wenbo, president of Sany Heavy Industry, was full of emotion.
Construction machinery is just a microcosm of China's equipment manufacturing industry. In many fields such as power equipment, CNC machine tools, automobiles and parts, China's independent innovation of high-end equipment has continuously achieved new results, and the self-sufficiency rate of high-end equipment has been continuously improved.
"Now we are undoubtedly the world's leading transformer manufacturer." Zhu Rong, deputy general manager of Tianwei Baobian Electric Company, said, "Now Tianwei no longer needs to introduce the technology of any foreign enterprise in the field of UHV, and can independently develop and export the technology to South Korea, Japan, Egypt, India and other countries." ”
After the baptism of the financial crisis, many enterprises now pay more attention to relying on independent innovation to achieve structural transformation.
"This year, there are a lot of independent innovation high-end products in China: the third generation of nuclear power main pipeline manufacturing key technology breakthroughs, the world's * 5658±800 kV Yunguang UHVDC transmission project was completed and put into operation, and the first four-axis CNC precision grinding machine in China was launched......," Cai Weici, vice president of the China Machinery Industry Federation, said with relief. What makes Cai Weici even happier is that the independent innovation of the equipment manufacturing industry is advancing from the host level to the level of key supporting parts: Xidian Company and TBEA have built a high-level AC and DC high-voltage insulating sleeve rolling production line, Daqo Group has successfully developed the frequency conversion control system required for large-scale direct-drive wind power equipment, and a breakthrough has been made in the localization of large-scale valves for natural gas long-distance pipelines......
"The key components of China's high-end equipment have been controlled by others for a long time. This kind of key components are often more difficult than the main engine assembly, and now there can be a breakthrough in the key components, which represents the improvement of the core technical capabilities of the equipment manufacturing industry. Cai Weici said.
 

China's equipment goes to the world - equipment companies "want to compete with giants"

Clean and tidy workshop, standardized production line, every 4 minutes a machine machine off the assembly line...... In Dalian Machine Tool Group, the reporter saw a completely different scene from the traditional machine tool factory "black, dirty and messy".
As the equipment of manufacturing equipment, machine tools occupy a very important position in the entire manufacturing system, and high-end CNC machine tools have always been the shortcomings of China's machine tool industry.
"In recent years, we have focused on CNC functional components, and now key components such as CNC systems, high-speed spindles, and ball screws have been mass-produced." Wang Jin, Executive President of Dalian Machine Tool Group, said, "The technical performance of our products has reached the same level as that of international contemporary, and now international giants such as Bosch in Germany, General Motors in the United States and Caterpillar have incorporated us into the global equipment supplier system." For a long time, in the international market, "Made in China" seemed to be synonymous with light industrial products. Nowadays, this situation is changing, and the overseas market can see not only shoes and toys from China, but also more and more machine tools, pump trucks, excavators, and transformers from China......
After the Kazakh customer highway company, Sany Heavy Industry and Caterpillar's graders competed on the same stage, the person in charge of the construction site, Alleg, said that they did not believe in the quality of China's construction machinery products, but after a few months of trial, they have now fully agreed with Sany's products, and gradually identified with Chinese products.
"Not only do we want to sell our products all over the world, but we also want to build factories in developed countries." Liang Wengen, chairman of Sany Group, said, "If there is no internationalization, Sany is just a larger 'self-employed'. ”
Sany Group, which does not want to be a "self-employed", has successively invested in the construction of R&D and manufacturing bases in India, the United States, Germany and Brazil with the courage of "daring to be the first in the world".
However, in a highly competitive market, no company can succeed casually. Chinese equipment has been fiercely sniped by competitors by substituting imports through independent innovation and entering overseas.
"It's happening more and more now." Wang Ruixiang, president of the China Machinery Industry Federation, said, "For example, North Heavy Industry has invested more than one billion yuan to successfully develop large-diameter thick-walled seamless steel pipes urgently needed for the production of supercritical boilers." When we can't produce, international giants ask for sky-high prices; As soon as we developed it, they immediately reduced the quotation by more than 60%, with the aim of not getting us orders and stifling our growth space. "Advance in the face of difficulties and face difficulties, only then can you show your true character as a hero." We are not afraid of suppression, since we want to go out, we must dare to compete with the world's top enterprises. Xiang Wenbo said.

From a big country with equipment to a strong country with equipment, Chinese enterprises have a long way to go

"In recent years, China's equipment manufacturing industry has indeed made remarkable achievements, but we are still only a manufacturing power, not a manufacturing power." Zhang Xiangmu, director of the Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said.
According to Cai Weici, although China's equipment self-sufficiency rate has reached 85%, it is mainly concentrated in the low-end market, and high-end equipment is still mainly dependent on imports.
"The profit margins of these high-end equipment are much higher than the industry average." Cai Weici said, "Therefore, it is not too important whether the self-sufficiency rate is 85% or 90%, the important thing is whether the high-end equipment can be self-sufficient." ”
How big is the gap between domestic equipment enterprises and international giants?
"Our goal is to be GE (General Electric) in China." During the interview, the reporter heard the heads of a number of enterprises say so. GE's revenue in 2009 was US$157 billion, while China Machinery Industry Group, a 5,655-size* company in China's equipment manufacturing industry (excluding automobile companies), had an operating income of just over 100 billion yuan last year. In addition to the scale gap, more importantly, most of the products of China's equipment enterprises lack core competitiveness, and at the same time, the basic supporting capacity is relatively weak, and many key components still need to be imported.
"Power equipment is the most outstanding field of independent innovation of China's high-end equipment, and our conventional thermal power equipment has done very well, but the instrumentation and control system of nuclear power and gas power generation equipment still relies on imports." Wang Ruixiang said, "The same is true in many other areas, where progress is rapid but the gap is still not small. Like high-end CNC systems, we are still far from meeting domestic demand. ”
Many enterprises have realized that behind the competition of products is the competition of technology; Behind the competition of technology is the competition of the quality of employees.
"Tianwei Baobian not only attaches great importance to research and development, but also attaches great importance to the training of front-line workers." Zhu Rong said, "We have set up positions such as skill masters and technical leaders among front-line workers, and skill masters enjoy middle-level full-time treatment, and technical leaders enjoy middle-level deputy treatment, so that everyone has the motivation to learn technology." ”
"Human beings are great because of dreams, and life is meaningful because of dreams." Liang Wengen, chairman of Sany Group, said, "My dream is to create the world's *5661 quality products and change the international image of 'Made in China'." ”