The 123rd China Import and Export Fair.
China's industrial robots have fewer imports and fewer low-end and high-end products. How can the robots in the Canton Fair speak stories?
In the context of economic restructuring and rising labor costs, the global robot market demand continues to increase. “Made in China 2025” also explicitly included industrial robots as one of the ten key areas for vigorously promoting breakthrough development. At the 123rd Canton Fair, electromechanical Robot booths on the exhibition area are popular.
Canton Fair Robot Booth Popularity
At the 123rd Canton Fair, robot exhibition booths on the electromechanical exhibition area were popular.
Xuzhou Libo Foreign Trade Co., Ltd., which has been exhibiting at the Canton Fair for 20 years, displayed only one product at the booth this time – the world’s first 6-degree-of-freedom bending robot, and saw a yellow robot rule quickly and quickly. 3. The iron plates were bent and stacked neatly aside, attracting buyers to look around.
According to the person in charge, Zhang Feng, this robot has been optimized for the bending conditions to solve the problem of bending follow-up deviation and long teaching time caused by the large acceleration of the plate bending process. The processing speed is faster and the accuracy is higher. Higher. The robot has approached nearly 400 overseas buyers in just three days. Zhang Feng admitted that currently domestic robotics technology is only in the second echelon, and there is still a certain gap between the first echelon of Japan and Germany, so he The target customers are Eastern Europe, South America and Australia.
Imports and exports have less trade deficits
According to relevant statistics, as China’s demographic dividend weakens and the industry’s 4.0 advances, China’s manufacturing industry has embarked on an era of increased efficiency through automation, and it has become the largest market for robot demand worldwide. Although in recent years, China’s robotics technology has advanced rapidly, and domestically The rise of the brand, but China's production of robots is still relatively backward, showing the status of less imports and more exports, low-end and more high-end, a large amount of trade deficit.
According to a report compiled by the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China on prospective industry research institutes, according to the report compiled by the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China, the total import and export volume of China's industrial robotics industry was US$112.129 million in 2016, an increase of 8.80% year-on-year, of which imports amounted to US$9,960.8975 million, an increase of 9.07% year-on-year. It was US$1,601.055 million, a year-on-year increase of 7.20%, and the trade deficit was 336.7318 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 9.45%. The latest data tracked by OFweek Industry Research Center shows that the number of imported industrial robots in China increased by nearly 32,000 units in 2017, but the number of exports However, it shrank by about 3%. Among them, Japan continued to maintain its position as the largest importer of industrial robots in China, accounting for 81%, followed by South Korea and Germany, both of which received about 10% of the total import share.
In terms of prices, in the two years of domestic industrial robots' export volume in 2016 and 2017, the unit price of China's industrial robots was obviously lower than the unit price of imports. The unit prices for imports and exports in 2016 were US$16,300/set and US$5,100/set, respectively. The export unit price is 15,300 US dollars / Taiwan (sets) and 7,600 US dollars / Taiwan (sets).
According to statistics, the output of industrial robots in China was 130,000 sets (sets) in 2017, an increase of 81.0%, but the sales volume of domestic brands of industrial robots did not match the market demand of China. Integrated multiple market data, the current proportion of domestic industrial robots At around 30%, the market share of domestic brands of industrial robots in high-end applications is even less than 5%.
Home appliance giant layout hopes to enhance the industry
In recent years, home appliance giants such as Haier, Gree, and Midea have all made a transition to intelligent manufacturing, which is expected to boost the overall upgrade of the Chinese robotics industry.
Gree Group began to implement “machine substitution” from the end of 2012. In just two or three years, the investment reached 10 billion yuan. The robot became Dong Mingzhu’s favorite story now, and for the first time, it was the second owner of Gree’s future. Industry's strategic positioning to position smart equipment. In addition to its professional skills such as welding, assembly, handling, and palletizing, the independently developed Gree industrial robot can also play drums, basketball, dance, and sculpture. Under the deputy factory, coincidentally, in early March, the United States released the "new generation of man-machine" strategy. At the same time, Haier also officially released "Haier Smart Home - Service Robot Strategy 1.0."
With the expansion of home appliance giants and some vertical professional companies, industry agencies predict that in the next three years, the output of domestic industrial robots will double on the current basis. By 2020, the output of domestic industrial robots will exceed 250,000 units. Personnel analysis believes that home appliance giants have strong financial strength and huge technical R&D strengths, and see if they can lead the Chinese robotic industry to realize the counter-attack myth of domestic white electricity exports in the past century.