According to customs statistics, from January to July this year, China imported 57,000 metalworking machine tools, down 4% over the same period last year, worth $ 4.35 billion, an increase of 11.5%.

Of metalworking machine tools imports show a downward trend this year, the state-owned enterprises and the private sector imports decreased significantly. January to July this year, foreign-invested enterprises in China imported machine tools 41000, an increase of 0.2%, accounting for 71.9% of the total of China's machine tool imports for the same period; state-owned enterprises imported machine tools in 7917, down 14.7 percent, accounting for 14%; private sector imports of machine tools 7492 units, down 10.7 percent, accounting for 13.3%.

However, although the metal processing machine tool imports declined, imports are growing, from January to July this year, China's metalworking machine tool imports amounted to $ 4.35 billion, an increase of 11.5%. Machine tool imports grew faster than the growth rate of imports, domestic high value-added high-end machine tool demand gradually increased.

With the capability of independent innovation of the domestic machine tool companies in recent years greatly improve dramatically the quality and level of the domestic machine tool, import the formation of an effective alternative. However, China is not only the demand for CNC machine tools and machining centers and other high-end mainframe bed need to rely on imports, and numerical control systems and machine key components of the domestic machine tool industry, there are many still rely on imports.

Divisive internal product demand of the domestic machine tool industry is still full, high-grade large-scale machine tool orders, demand trend, the ordinary non-CNC machine tools demand is very prominent, the trend of another economic type CNC machine tools and high-end CNC machine tools were divided, the market economic type CNC machine tool demand has started to decrease. CNC, large-scale machine tools prospect of vast import-substitution policy support it needs to maintain steady growth.