According to the GARDNER international statistical data exchange system of the China Machine Tool Industry Association, the Marketing Department of the Machine Tool Industry Association introduced the situation of the world's metal processing machine tools in terms of the overall situation, trends, import and export, and consumption.

I. Overview The overall global metal processing machine tool manufacturing industry has already gone out of recession. In 2010, the production value of 28 major machine tool producing countries and regions in the world reached 66.3 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 21% from the output value of 54.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2009. In 2009, China’s output value fell by one third from 2008, and China continues to play a leading role. For many years, China has become the world's largest machine tool consumer and importer. Since 2009, it has become the world's largest producer. In 2010, China's machine tool production grew rapidly, accounting for 31% of global output value. Due to the strong domestic demand, the Chinese machine tool market is mainly domestic, and exports are relatively small.

The Japanese machine tool industry rebounded after experiencing a sharp decline of 59% in 2009 and returned to the position of the second largest producer of machine tools. The impact of the financial crisis in Germany in 2009 was not as severe as in Japan. In 2010, output value continued to decline by 10%, ranking third. The value of U.S. machine tools is still severely declining and has dropped to eighth place behind Italy, South Korea, China Taiwan and Switzerland. As production and imports have increased significantly, China's machine tool consumption continues to expand, reaching 28.48 billion US dollars, becoming the world's largest machine tool consumer. In terms of amount, there are nearly five units in the world for every ten machine tools consumed in China. The second and third positions are Germany's 5 billion U.S. dollars and the U.S. 2.7 billion U.S. dollars.

Second, the world's machine tool production began to rebound In the past two years, the world's machine tool production saw a saw-type growth. In 2009, the production value of machine tools in the world's 28 major machine tool manufacturing countries and regions fell by 32%. As the economies of major machine tool manufacturing countries and regions are recovering, the delivery value of machine tools in 2010 reached US$66.3 billion, an increase of 21% compared with 2009 US$54.7 billion.

In some countries, the fluctuations are quite large. For example, in Japan, the decline was very serious in 2009, but the rebound in 2010 was as high as 69%, regaining the second largest value of metal processing machine tools in the world.

Germany's orders for 2010 have also picked up, but mainly due to long-term delivery of special machine tools and large-scale high-end complete sets of equipment, which may delay delivery until 2011. Due to the supply of parts and labor shortages, the output value of German machine tools also decreased by 10% year-on-year. It is expected that Germany's rebound will lag behind. The situation in Italy and Switzerland is basically the same.

In the global machine tool manufacturing industry, the most amazing thing is China. She is once again the largest machine tool producer.

In 2010, the output value of China's machine tools was 20.9 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 35% year-on-year, accounting for 31% of the world's 28 major machine tool producing countries and regions with a total output value of 66.3 billion U.S. dollars.

China's manufacturing industry began to grow rapidly more than a decade ago, triggering a large demand for production equipment. Since 2002, China has become the world's largest consumer of machine tools and has maintained it so far. China's machine tools were heavily imported. From 2002 to 2005, imported machine tools accounted for 62% of China's machine tool consumption. During the period from 2006 to 2010, China's domestic machine tool companies and some foreign-funded machine tool companies gradually expanded their market share. In 2010, imported machine tools accounted for 33% of consumption.

3. Imports and exports of Chinese machine tools increased by 31% to 1.85 billion U.S. dollars, ranking sixth in the world. However, the export of Chinese machine tools only accounts for 9% of the output value, which is far lower than that of other major machine tool producing countries and regions in the world.

One reason is that the company's domestic orders are full, and another reason may be that China's efforts and channels to develop the international machine tool market is not enough.

After Japan’s export rankings were ranked in Germany in 2009, Japan’s exports to Japan saw a slight decline in exports, while Japanese machine tool exports surged by 86%, causing Japan to once again leap into the world’s largest machine tool exporter.

The US market is relatively open, with machine tool imports accounting for 77% of consumption. In 2010, although imports fell slightly, it still ranks after China as the world's second largest machine tool importer. The order is Germany, South Korea and India. U.S. machine tool exports increased by 12%, and the trade deficit was 726 million U.S. dollars, which was lower than the 2009 deficit. In 2009, the deficit was as high as 1 billion U.S. dollars.

Fourth, ten years ago, the United States was the world’s largest machine tool consumer, far higher than Germany’s second largest. Since then, the consumption of machine tools in the United States has been declining year by year. In 2010, it consumed 2.75 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 15%, and fell from the third place in the global machine tool consumption in 2009 to the sixth place. The consumption amount is only two-fifths of the US$6.77 billion in the highest year in 2000.

Judging from the consumption of machine tools, China, as the largest machine tool producer, importer, and consumer, has not experienced a recession. In 2010, China's machine tool consumption increased by 43% year-on-year, reaching an incredible 28.48 billion US dollars. As a result, China's machine tool consumption accounts for 48% of the total consumption of the 28 major machine tool producing countries and regions in the world.