Since the first half of 2017, the market demand gradually picked up in support, the machine tool industry and market operation has to pick up and the stabilization of the situation. In accordance with the statistics of the National Bureau of statistics, customs import and export enterprises and key enterprises in the industry, this paper makes a brief analysis and introduction to the general situation of the machine tool market and the general operation of the industry in the first half of this year.

I. General Situation

Since the second half of 2016, the overall operation of the machine tool industry has shown a restorative growth in the wake of the market warming and the transformation and upgrading of the previous work. According to the National Bureau of statistics data, in the first half of 2017, the industry's main income of 505 billion 800 million yuan, an increase of 12.2%; total profit of 31 billion 500 million yuan, an increase of 23.6%.

According to the association of domestic machine tool market consumption situation, the first half of 2017, metal processing machine tools (including metal cutting machine tools and metal forming machine tools) consumption of 13 billion 600 million U. s.dollars, an increase of 3.8%. Among them, the metal cutting machine tool consumption of 9 billion U. s.dollars, down 2.2%; metal forming machine tool consumption of 4 billion 600 million U. s.dollars, an increase of 17.9%. In the first half of 2017, the consumption of tools (including cutting tools and measuring instruments) was $2 billion 500 million, an increase of 25%. Overall, the first half of the machine tool consumption showed a slight increase in the state, the consumption of metal cutting machine, slight decline is mainly due to the RMB exchange rate decline, flat, the total output growth in exports and imports fell and other factors caused.

Domestic machine tool production showed an increase year by year. In the first half of 2017, metalworking machines produced $11 billion 300 million, an increase of 7.4%. Among them, the metal cutting machine tool output 6 billion 900 million US dollars, the same period compared to the same period; the metal forming machine tool output 4 billion 400 million US dollars, grows compared to the same period 21.5%. In the first half of 2017, the tool output was $2 billion 900 million, an increase of 20.8%. The production of metal forming machine tools and tools products shows a remarkable recovery.

The machine tool in the field of foreign trade situation is showing stabilization to the situation, the first half of 2017 machine tool exports rebounded significantly, exports $5 billion 400 million, an increase of 10.3%; machine tool imports to achieve the growth rate from negative to positive, imports of $6 billion 900 million, an increase of 5.4%. The trade deficit was $1 billion 500 million, down 8.3% from a year earlier.

Main segments of the export: metal processing machine tool exports 1 billion 500 million U. s.dollars, an increase of 8.5%. Among them, the metal cutting machine tool export amount 1 billion US dollars, grow 8.9% compared to the same period; the metal forming machine tool export amount 500 million US dollars, grow 7.8% compared to the same period. Cutting tool export volume of 1 billion 200 million U. s.dollars, an increase of 6.5%; Abrasives 1 billion 100 million U. s.dollars, an increase of 15.2%.

Main segments: import of metal processing machine tools, US $3 billion 800 million, down 3.4%. Among them, the amount of imports of metal cutting machine tools 3 billion 100 million U. s.dollars, down 4%; metal forming machine tool imports 700 million U. s.dollars, down 0.6%. Imports of cutting tools $800 million, an increase of 19.1%.

Chinese machine tool industry association in the industry key enterprises and major foreign companies in China, conducted the questionnaire survey for the first half of 2017, the machine tool enterprises in the field, questionnaires were returned 136 copies, 2016 sales income related enterprises is about 84 billion 400 million yuan. Calculated from the questionnaire on the boom of the industry in the first half of the index in 2017, the first half of China machine tools in the field of climate index in 2017 was 62.5%, in the above the ups and downs, picked up 8.6 percentage points compared to the end of 2016, continue to maintain the trend of expansion.