China Machinery Industry Federation released data: in 2023, the value-added of the machinery industry increased by 8.7% year-on-year, higher than the national industrial and manufacturing industry growth rate of 4.1 and 3.7 percentage points; to achieve operating income of 29.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.8% year-on-year; to achieve a total profit of nearly 1.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.1% year-on-year.
Ye Dingda said that in 2023, the machinery industry, in the face of complex and severe internal and external situations, to overcome difficulties, struggle and forge ahead, high-quality development of solid advancement, the main economic indicators throughout the year to achieve stable growth, to pull the manufacturing industry and even the country's industrial development played an important role in the stable development. Looking ahead to 2024, the machinery industry is still expected to maintain the overall trend of steady progress.
Data show that in 2023, the main economic indicators of China's machinery industry achieved stable growth, economic operation stabilized in progress. As of the end of 2023, the number of enterprises above the scale of the machinery industry reached 121,000, an increase of 10,000 over the previous year, accounting for more than a quarter of the national industrial enterprises above the scale of the proportion of the machinery industry in 2023 to realize operating income of 29.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.8% year-on-year.
Ye Dingda said that in 2023 the machinery industry economic operation, although experiencing fluctuations and ups and downs, but the overall operating trend is good. Affected by the comparison base, the main indicators of the first quarter of the growth rate is low, the second quarter of the growth rate is higher, the third quarter growth rate slowed down, but with a number of stabilizing economic policies and measures to focus on the introduction and implementation of the fourth quarter of the industry is once again stabilizing and better, the main economic indicators for the year to achieve steady growth.
Specifically, in 2023, the machinery industry mainly involved in the five national economy industry categories of value added all growth, of which electrical machinery and automobiles play a prominent role in driving the growth rate of value added reached 12.9% and 13% respectively. The overall investment in fixed assets continued to grow at a high rate, playing an important supporting role in driving industrial and manufacturing investment, of which automobile, electrical machinery investment in high-speed growth, the growth rate of 19.4%, 32.2%, especially electrical machinery for two consecutive years, the growth rate is higher than 32%.
From the point of view of the industry's main product production and sales situation, the continuation of the trend of differentiation in 2022. Ye Dingda introduced, focusing on monitoring the 120 kinds of major products, 61 kinds of product production year-on-year growth, accounting for 50.8%; 59 kinds of product production year-on-year decline, accounting for 49.2%. Among them, automobile production and sales hit a record high, electrical appliances continue to maintain growth, machine tool industry production rebound, construction machinery, agricultural machinery products continue to be in the doldrums.
Foreign trade rose steadily and hit a record high. Data show that in 2023, the total foreign trade import and export of machinery industry reached 1.09 trillion U.S. dollars, an increase of 1.7% year-on-year for three consecutive years more than one trillion U.S. dollars, accounting for 18.3% of the country's total foreign trade import and export.In 2023, the machinery industry realized a trade surplus of 478.51 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 58.1% of the country's surplus in the trade of goods.
Machinery industry foreign trade exports in the high base on a new high, not only to achieve a reasonable growth in volume, but also in the growth of kinetic energy, trade structure and other aspects of the quality of the effective promotion. Overseas market diversification at the same time, the host, the whole machine products increased significantly, driving the role of enhancement of electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries and solar batteries, "the new three kinds of" products 2023 total exports of 1.06 trillion yuan, the first time to break through the trillion dollar mark, an increase of 29.9%.
In addition, Ye Dingda introduced, in the efficiency indicators, in 2023, the machinery industry realized total profits of nearly 1.8 trillion yuan, up 4.1% year-on-year. The growth rate of operating income and total profit was 5.7 and 6.4 percentage points higher than that of the national industry, accounting for 22.3% and 22.8% of the national industry, respectively, 1.2 and 1.4 percentage points higher than that of the previous year.
At the conference, Chen Bin, standing committee member of the party committee and deputy director of the expert committee of China Machinery Industry Federation, pointed out that the trade surplus of machinery industry has reached a new record high, which is very important because of the industry's progress in technology.
Three-generation nuclear power independent achievement "country and one" to achieve 100% localization of the machine; TBEA independent research and development of the world's large capacity of 110 kV level intelligent on-load dry-type transformer grid application; Huaneng Group independently developed the world's first tandem-type dual wind turbine wind turbine "Sairui number "Completion of the installed capacity of 2023, machinery industry power equipment, offshore equipment, petrochemical equipment, complete sets of equipment and other key areas of scientific and technological innovation to achieve new breakthroughs, a series of major technology and equipment put into use.
Strategic emerging industries are the main battlefield of science and technology innovation.2023 the strategic emerging industries related industries in the machinery industry combined operating income reached 24.2 trillion yuan, up 7.8% year-on-year; realized a total profit of 1.4 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.0% year-on-year; the growth rate than the machinery industry as a whole were higher than the overall 1.0 and 2.9 percentage points; accounted for the proportion of the machinery industry were 81.3% and 81.0%, respectively. 0.7 and 2.2 percentage points higher than the previous year. Among them, new energy equipment, new energy vehicles, energy saving and environmental protection industries and other strategic emerging industries are significantly higher than the overall level of machinery industry growth rate of the main indicators, leading the industry to become a new leader in innovation and development.
China Association of Automobile Manufacturers deputy secretary-general Chen Shihua told reporters that in 2023, the automobile manufacturing industry completed operating income of 100,975.8 billion yuan, an increase of 11.9% year-on-year, accounting for more than 10 industrial enterprises above the scale of the proportion of total operating income of 7.6%. He said, "This is the first time that China's auto manufacturing revenue exceeded the 10 trillion yuan mark".
"Greening" has become one of the important directions for the machinery industry. The rapid development of clean energy equipment, machinery industry energy equipment manufacturing revenue and total profit in 2023 increased by 9.7% and 18.5% year-on-year. Related enterprises have made significant innovation achievements, such as Sany Heavy Energy released the world's largest 15 MW onshore wind turbine, Dongfang Electric launched 18 MW offshore direct-drive wind turbine, and Ming Yang Intelligent launched 22 MW offshore wind turbine.
Digital transformation and intelligent upgrading have accelerated, promoting the deep integration of new-generation information technology with the machinery industry. By the end of 2023, 18 intelligent factories of machinery enterprises, such as Ningde Times, GAC EAN, LONGi, Sany Heavy Industry, etc., were selected as the world's "lighthouse" factories, and became the pioneers of global intelligent manufacturing; Zoomlion built 23 intelligent factories with Zoomlion Intelligent Industry City as the core, and 10 of them have been completed and put into production, realizing the integrated production line. Zoomlion has built 23 intelligent factories at the core of Zoomlion Intelligent Industrial City, of which 10 intelligent factories have been put into production, realizing the comprehensive automation rate of production lines of more than 85%.
From the international point of view, a century of change to accelerate the evolution of the world economy and international trade growth momentum is insufficient, coupled with the prevalence of trade protectionism, machinery industry, foreign trade market is facing more uncertainties and greater downward pressure. From the domestic point of view, the macroeconomic environment there is still a lack of effective demand, social expectations are weak, the willingness to invest is not strong, consumption is not as expected and other difficulties, some industries have duplication of layout, competition, price downward trend and so on.
