"Country of localization of major technical equipment at the same time, also actively encourage and support the development and production of key components, to enhance the capacity of form a complete set, raising the overall level of equipment manufacturing industry." China hydraulic pneumatic seal industrial association director changsha fund recently when accepting a reporter to interview said that under the encouragement of national policy, as a basic industry of fluid transmission industry (hydraulic, hydraulic, pneumatic, seal industry known as the fluid drive industry) has ushered in the golden period of development, but the medium product of excessive competition become the long-term conflict, industry development needs to solve.

Growth is fast But can't satisfy the requirements of high-end market

Statistics show that in 2007 China's production of hydraulic products rose 28%, pneumatic products increased by 40%, seal products increased by 30%. ShaBaoSen think industry output growth this year will remain above 20%. "But that kind of growth speed still can't meet the growing market demand." According to ShaBaoSen, fluid transmission products are two markets, which is the necessary market before and after the maintenance of the market. Airtight, fluid drive huge market in China, accounting for about 12.5% of the world's market, in the United States, Japan, Germany ranked fourth.

With a domestic industry from the ordinary equipment upgrades to the high-end products, as well as the international transfer of the equipment manufacturing industry to China, equipment manufacturing industry in our country have continued rising power, high technical content of the facilities, such as liquid air industry is facing rare opportunities for development, but at present domestic products can only meet the requirements of form a complete set of low-standard, high-grade product is difficult to satisfy. This leads to the import and export, the hydraulic parts, pneumatic parts, seals (hereinafter referred to as "liquid air"), and other basic product is still in a state of deficit, many products need to be imported from abroad. In 2007, our country hydraulic product imported us $1.4 billion, growth of about 40%; $2  500 million pneumatic products, growth of about 18%; Import of seal products nearly $400 million, growth is also higher than 30%.

From the point of fluid transmission products market capacity, domestic products can only meet two-thirds, one-third of the market share must rely on imports to meet. Imports of high-end products are small, but the price is expensive, someone described as, "we import export is sweat, is tears".

Domestic enterprises are still competitive disadvantage

Fluid drive industry as the important basic industry, is both technology-intensive industry, is also a capital intensive industry, need a lot of money and personnel security. Therefore, focus on the future development of the industry, ShaBaoSen think still faces many challenges, domestic enterprises should can spend more time in improving technology level and product quality, to the high-end product market development.

In recent years, many multinational companies through joint venture, cooperation and other ways to enter the Chinese market, leading to increased competition. International top companies vigorously implement the strategy of mergers and acquisitions of domestic leading enterprises, and tried to control China market, in some places to improve channel performance "",. "In a word, today's China fluid transmission industry is facing unprecedented opportunities for development, is also facing unprecedented severe challenges".

In recent years, many private capital into the fluid field of airtight, caused by a lack of technical force, can only make price war in the middle and lower levels market; State-owned enterprises are the restriction of the "feudal lords economic environment", it is difficult to realize the restructuring of the trans-regional, cross-sectoral union.

By national macroeconomic regulation and control and the influence of such factors as the raw material rises in price, industry development and the rising cost pressure over the last two years. In hydraulic industry, for example, due to high quality mainly raw materials such as steel, copper, aluminum, casting blank, such as rising price, directly cause the product cost rise rapidly, and some of the console manufacturers prefer to buy foreign foundation, based implementation of price, price of domestic procurement policy, "the basic industry survival in extrusion, about the plight of the block." ShaBaoSen thinks, based the weakness of the thing industry is the root cause of equipment manufacturing industry in our country big but not strong, our machine tools, engineering machinery, metallurgical and other industrial rapid development, objectively and on the basis of hydraulic industry put forward higher requirements, speed up the development of basic parts industry is the foundation industry and host industry common goals and tasks.

Development faces many challenges

At present, the key to high-end engineering machinery fittings in basic rely on imports, price is high, not only was not timely delivery, "others". This is a high-end product in the mechanical engineering development in our country, and to expand exports of bottleneck. Such as domestic excavator market in 2004 almost 90% of the market are foreign brand occupies, is one of the important reasons, a high-performance components form a complete set of problem has not been effectively solved.

Fluid transmission industry in China faces a shortage of talent, capital and so on many difficulties. ShaBaoSen said the industry the lack of high-tech talents, colleges and universities have opened the fluid drive profession, but as "education reform", the professional has gradually be abolished or merged into automation professional, as a direct result of the lack of basic theoretical knowledge in the field of basic parts, much less innovation.

Some original hydraulic and other professional scientific research institutes, with the "enterprise" reform, also no longer engaged in basic research and development, mostly to other industries. As the basis of a fusion between the industry's own technological progress and industrial, also put forward higher requirements to personnel qualities.

Pressure is a fluid drive industry faces another problem, the industrial development needs a lot of money for original innovation. Liquid air tight products to realize independent innovation, to a large number of fundamental experiment, the difficulty is not enough ". ShaBaoSen, for example, the basic experiment of friction pair, day and night constantly, need a lot of money, and most companies it is difficult to have financial strength to do this kind of research and development, only imitate foreign products.

In the long run, the equipment manufacturing industry is rising demand for resources, more and more restricted by the condition such as energy, resources and capacity; Resource prices, product prices, profits constantly upward downstream transfer; The appreciation of the renminbi, a sharp drop in export earnings; Plus a its innovation ability insufficiency, the pattern of economic growth, which will hinder the development of fluid transmission industry.