CIMES 2012 Press conference

On March 9th CIMES' organizers, the CNMTC and Reed Exhibitions invited editors and journalists from 66 media houses as well as international representatives from Italian, German, Brazilian and Japanese government bodies to announce their ambitious international exhibition program for visiting machine tool users and purchasers in application industries from around the globe.

During this press event Mr. Preecha Chen (President of Reed Exhibitions Greater China) gave an outlook on the 11th China Machine Tool and Tools Exhibition that will be grandly staged at Beijing's New China International Exhibition Center from June 12 to 16, 2012, where cutting-edge machine tools and equipment will be on show. It will be a top-notch international event for trade visitors across the world, demonstrating the best of smart and green machine equipment.

Since its inception in 1992, CIMES has already had ten successful editions thanks to the great support from the government and industry alike. It has now become the largest and most professional international event for the industry in China. Serving as a barometer event for the industry, it offers a platform for the industry to demonstrate its achievements in structural reform and innovative efforts.
Through two years of highly efficient work, CIMES 2012 is now ready to open its doors. www.cimes.net.cn

I. Challenges and Solutions for China's Machine Tool Industry
(Cai WeiCi, Vice Presient of the China Machinery Industry Federation
Shi Yong, Director of the Major Equipment Information Centre)
Summarizing the latest developments during CIMES' press conference Cai WeiCi, Vice Presient of the China Machinery Industry Federation presented the latest figures and forecasts for China's Machine Tool industry:

“The total output value and sales revenue of the industry in 2012 is expected to increase by about 18% over 2011, profits by about 12% and the foreign trade volume by about 15%. In China's machinery industry, the machine tool sector plays a special role as the “prime mover” of the industry. The majority of its orders are from machinery enterprises and its technological level has a special impact on the upgrading of the machinery industry.” (Cai WeiCi, Vice Presient of China Machinery Industry Federation)

Shi Yong, Director of the Major Equipment Information Centre explained during the conference
"With the use up of China's demographic bonus and opening policies, China has lost the low-cost competitive strength. Therefore, speeding up the development of the machine tool industry and the automatic production line of outfits with robots is the inevitable requirement for the participation in the global industrial competition. With the process of becoming a middle income country, if the structure and drive supporting the long-term development of China's economy as well as the systems and strategies remain unchanged, China will be likely to fall into the development trap that the traditional competition strength looses and the new competition strength is not yet formed."

During the "Twelfth Five-year Plan" period, China has to realize the transformation from original equipment manufacturing to independent production, from low-price competition strength to differential competition strategies, from simulation to innovation, from low-end manufacturing to large-scale production, from last process to front-stage design, etc. The keys to this development according to Shi Yong will among others be the" encouragement and establishment of intellectual property alliance to increase the whole competitiveness of China's industry, and counterattacking the external competitions and frictions to avoid the large impact on the industrial security" and the "encouragement of the overseas mergers and acquisitions aiming at improving the technical innovation capacity, and supporting the establishment of gAir Jordan VIII 8