According to authoritative sources, the "Made in China 2025" plan will be officially released within the month. The plan proposes 10 key areas, including the new generation of information and communication technology industry, high-end CNC machine tools and robots, biomedicine, etc. Industry insiders say that Made in China 2025 is imminent, and CNC machine tools may usher in a springtime for development.

　　The development of CNC machine tools in China is regionally uneven, with high-end products relying on imports.

　　As strategic equipment for national defense and military industry, CNC machine tools are an important manufacturing means for various weaponry and an important guarantee for the modernization of defense and military equipment. The level, variety, and production capacity of CNC machine tools reflect the country's technological and economic comprehensive national strength. However, at present, the development of CNC machine tools in China is relatively slow, regionally uneven, and mainly focused on mid-to-low-end products, with the vast majority of high-end CNC machine tools relying on imports.

　　From the perspective of China's CNC machine tool industry pattern, the regional characteristics of CNC machine tool development are very obvious, reflecting the uneven development of CNC machine tools in China. For example, in Zhejiang, Shandong, Beijing, Hebei, and Sichuan, CNC machine tools have formed relatively complete industrial systems. Analysis shows that on one hand, these areas have faster economic development and higher levels of openness, which is conducive to introducing advanced foreign technology. On the other hand, these regions have broad market coverage. For instance, Sichuan's economic level is obviously not as high as the eastern coastal areas, but in the southwest region, Sichuan's CNC machine tool market is broad, and with national support, development is relatively fast. However, some old industrial production bases have relatively slow CNC machine tool development.

　　Besides uneven distribution, China's CNC machine tools are mainly mid-to-low-end products, with high-end CNC machine tools mainly relying on imports. According to Liu Baicheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, "big but not strong" is the reality of China's manufacturing industry. Taking CNC machine tools as an example, China produces a large quantity of mid-to-low-end CNC machine tools, but 80% of high-end CNC machine tools need to be imported.

　　Compared with developed countries, China's machine tool industry started late, has a shorter development time, and relatively backward technology. Although China's machine tool industry ranks first in the world in scale, it faces multiple challenges such as unreasonable industrial structure and insufficient independent innovation capability. Industry insiders say that in the development process of China's machine tool industry, it is necessary to accelerate the filling of existing gaps, and under the guidance of clear industrial development goals and priorities, systematically promote the development of the machine tool industry, vigorously advance the development of CNC machine tools, aiming to transform from a large machine tool producing country to a strong machine tool producing country.

　　CNC machine tools have become one of the 10 key areas of "Made in China 2025," and their development will usher in certain opportunities. Zhou Ji, president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, introduced that the digitalization and intelligence of manufacturing is an inevitable result of the deep integration of industrialization and informatization. It has become a key area for countries to occupy the commanding heights of manufacturing technology and a strong driving force for China's manufacturing industry to transform from "large" to "large and strong." The vigorous promotion of CNC machine tool development will provide power for China to achieve "large and strong."

　　Strengthening technological innovation to promote China's CNC machine tools to make great strides forward.

　　CNC machine tools have become the mainstream of machine tool consumption, especially high-end CNC machine tools, which belong to high-end equipment manufacturing, characterized by high technology content and high added value. They are an important focus for developing strategic emerging industries, and the future market for high-end CNC machine tools is huge. To achieve the transformation from "large" to "large and strong," China needs to strengthen technological innovation and vigorously promote the development of CNC machine tools.

　　Technological innovation is the driving force supporting structural adjustment and the source of competitive advantage. In China, mid-to-high-end CNC machine tool technology is extremely lacking. Under the market dominance of foreign companies, the research and development of mid-to-high-end CNC machine tool technology is both a necessity of the situation and an important choice for realizing the "Made in China 2025" plan. In the complex and ever-changing domestic and international market environment, without independently developed high-tech, the huge development opportunities in the CNC machine tool industry can only be lost.

　　Experts say that at the current stage, the key task for CNC machine tool enterprises is to accelerate the transformation of the economic development mode, promote product structure adjustment, increase R&D speed, master the core technologies of several high-end CNC systems and key functional components, and continuously improve the level of their enterprises through technological innovation, enhancing product precision and reliability. Only through continuous technological innovation can CNC machine tool enterprises keep progressing and avoid being eliminated by the market.

　　For example, Huazhong CNC, as early as during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, seized the opportunity to abandon the commonly used "special-purpose computer-based" approach adopted by many countries and took the technical route of "using general industrial microcomputers as the hardware platform and DOS, Windows as the open software platform." This innovative technical route avoided the long-term hardware manufacturing "reliability" bottleneck that restricted the development of China's CNC systems. On this basis, Huazhong CNC independently developed the "Huazhong Type I" high-performance CNC system with 4 channels and 9-axis linkage, breaking foreign blockades through software technology innovation. Its original surface direct interpolation technology reached the international advanced level.

　　Only through continuous technological innovation can enterprises establish a long-term foothold in the market and keep moving forward. If they stubbornly stick to old ways and are content with the status quo, the CNC machine tool industry will inevitably stagnate. The "Made in China 2025" plan is imminent, and CNC machine tool enterprises should seize this good opportunity, vigorously strengthen technological innovation, and promote great strides forward for enterprises.