Machinery industry is the fundamental and strategic industry for national economic development, an important guarantee for industrial upgrading and technological progress of various industries, and a key industry for China to participate in global economic development and to demonstrate the national comprehensive power.
CMIF classification includes 14 trade sectors automobile, electrical appliances, agricultural machinery, construction machinery, petrochemical general machinery, heavy mining machinery, machine tools, robotics and intelligent manufacturing, internal combustion engines, instrumentation, mechanical elements, cultural & office equipment, food packaging machinery, and other civil machinery.
By the end of 2023, there were 121,000 companies with annual revenue exceeding 20 million yuan in China’s machinery industry, whose total assets was 36 trillion yuan. In 2023, their total revenue was 29.8 trillion yuan with 1.8 trillion yuan of profit. The total volume of foreign trade reached 1.09 trillion US dollars, of which the export was 783 billion US dollars.
Automotive industry includes heavy-duty trucks, light vehicles, passenger cars, buses and coaches, transformed vehicles, jeeps, motorcycles, vehicles for industrial purposes auto parts and components, etc. Presently there are 3000major enterprises in the whole country.
Electrical equipment industry is classified as hydro-power equipment, thermal power equipment, unclear power equipment, wind-power generation equipment, power transformation and transmission equipment, industrial boilers, electric motors, lower-voltage apparatus and devices, wires, cables, electric furnances, welding machines, insulation materials, electric carbon products, accumulator and storage battery, and special electric equipment, etc. There are more than 2000 enterprises at present.
Agricultural machinery industry is sorted into tractors, cultivation machinery, plant protection machinery, irrigation and drainage machinery, agricultural transportation machinery, harvesting machinery, agricultural by-product processing machinery, forestry machinery, animal husbandry machinery, forage processing machinery, and fishery machinery, etc. There are about 4000 such enterprises at present.
Construction machinery industry is divided into excavators, loaders, bulldozers, scrapers, graders, truck cranes, forklift and industrial vehicles, piling machinery, road surface compacting machinery, rock-drilling machinery, and pneumatic tools. There are now more than 500 major enterprises in this industry.
Petrochemical and general machinery industry includes the equipment for petroleum & natural gas drilling, extracting, gathering and transportation, chemical equipment for oil refinery, industrial pumps, blowers and fans, valves, compressors, air separation equipment, refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment, gas separation and liquefaction equipment, vacuum acquisition and application equipment, printing machinery, plastics processing machinery, cycloid speed reducers, drying equipment and separators, etc. There are over 800 major enterprises in this industry at present.
Heavy-duty and mining machinery industry is divided into metallurgical equipment, mining equipment, cement fabrication equipment, crane machinery, transportation equipment, port equipment, loading machinery and water-conservancy equipment. There are nearly 1000 major enterprises at present.
Machine tool and tools industry is categorized into metal-cutting & metal forming machine tools, foundry equipment, wood-working machinery, abrasives and grinding tools, measuring & cutting tools, electric apparatus for machine tools and machine tool attachments. There are now over 1000 major enterprises in the whole industry.
Internal combustion engine industry covers the area of general purpose diesel engine, petrol engine and gas engine used in vehicle, construction and agricultural machinery, motive power machines for marine application and power generation sets as well as engine parts and components. There are about 1,100 major enterprises in this field.
Instruments and meters industry covers the automatic instruments for industrial control, electric meters and instruments, optical instruments, analytic instruments, laboratory instruments, meteorological instruments, maritime instruments, film projectors, cameras and copiers, etc. There are about 2000 major enterprises in this field.
General machinery basic components industry includes bearings, hydraulic components, hydrodynamic components, pneumatic parts, sealing materials, powder metallurgical components, fasteners, chains, springs and elastics, dies and moulds. There are now more than 800 major enterprises in the country.
Food-processing and packaging machinery industry includes machinery for food-processing, packaging, packaging materials, packaging containers and packaging decorations, etc. There are over 1600 major enterprises in the whole industry.
