Industrial machine manufacturing is the underlying foundation of the real economy. This logic is completely tenable.
The source of all physical industries depends entirely on the industrial mother machine.
Industrial machines are machine tools, “machines that make machines.”
Aerospace engine blades, ship crankshafts, automobile gearboxes, wind power spindles, engineering machinery cylinders, and semiconductor precision molds cannot be manufactured without a precision machine tool; electronics, military industry, new energy,
Rail transportation, agricultural machinery, infrastructure equipment, and parts processing in various industries, the first process is inseparable from machine tools; without independent and controllable high-end machine tools, high-end manufacturing is a castle in the air. No matter how good the materials are and how advanced the design drawings are, mass production will not be possible if the processing accuracy is not achieved.
The machinery industry is the skeleton of a complete industrial system.
The upstream includes general mechanical basic parts such as machine tools, forging, casting, hydraulic pressure, bearings, and gears; the midstream includes engineering machinery, agricultural machinery, mining machinery, textile machinery, and injection molding machinery; and the downstream supports the entire manufacturing chain of automobiles, energy, infrastructure, and people’s livelihood.
The essence of the operation of the entire real economy is the continuous production, processing and work of various types of machinery and equipment.
The finance, Internet, and service industries belong to circulation and supporting industries and cannot create physical productivity out of thin air. Only the machinery industry can transform ore, steel, and raw materials into real means of production and commodities.
Why is industry said to be the real strength of a country?
From a security perspective, national defense equipment, energy equipment, and grain and agricultural machinery all rely on machinery and machine tools. Pure service industries cannot guarantee food security, energy security, and national defense security. In terms of employment and risk resistance, industry absorbs a large number of real industry workers. During the economic downturn, complete machinery manufacturing can independently produce equipment.
equipment, reduce dependence on foreign imports, and resist the impact of external supply cuts and inflation; from the perspective of technological iteration base, cutting-edge technologies such as material science, numerical control, automation, robots, and precision measurement are almost all implemented in the field of machine tools and mechanical processing. Breakthroughs in high-end machinery will reversely drive technological upgrades in the entire industry chain.
The current reality also confirms this.
With the explosion of new energy vehicles, energy storage, wind power photovoltaics, and robotics, the core bottlenecks will eventually fall to two points: high-end five-axis, precision CNC machine tools (industrial mother machines); high-end mechanical basic components such as precision transmission, hydraulics, and casting and forging.
Capital and business models can be copied quickly, but machine tools, heavy machinery, and precision machining techniques require decades of technological accumulation. They are hard-core barriers that prevent short-term overtaking, and are also the core battlefield for industrial competition in various countries.
Finance is the blood, numbers are the tools, and industrial machinery and industrial machines are the bones and heart of the real economy. Without this set of underlying manufacturing capabilities, all industrial development will lack a foundation.
