Recently, China announced the cancellation of machine tool import orders from Japan, with a total amount of 111.2 billion yuan. 

As soon as the news was released, Japanese media commented, "I intended to decouple and break with China, but instead I ended up dead in foolishness".

Previously, exporting high-end machine tools to China had always been one of the important commodities for Japan to create a surplus in Sino Japanese trade. 

Now, receiving China's "order for guests to leave" has to some extent impacted Japan's machine tool industry.

From a small screw to an aircraft carrier rocket accessory, almost all industrial components are inseparable from machine tools, and their importance is self-evident.

Among the top 10 global machine tool companies, 4 are all from Japan, and many of the international industry standards and certification regulations were initially determined by Japanese companies.

This poses serious technical barriers to the Chinese machine tool industry and requires compliance with the standards established by Japanese enterprises.

Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the development of China's machine tool industry has been difficult. As developed countries gradually realize the industrialization of digital machine tools, China's machine tool industry still remains in the stage of manual control.

According to data, at that time, the localization rate of high-end machine tool manufacturing in China was only 6%, while in Japan, this figure was 32%.

To meet domestic production needs, China can only rely on importing machine tool equipment from developed countries such as Japan. But the research and development, production of machine tool equipment have always been monopolized by companies from Germany and Japan.

In the field of 5-axis precision machine tools, the United States, Japan, and Germany have consistently implemented a "no visit" strategy to the outside world, refusing communication with engineering teams from other countries, and fearing that machine tool technology may be "stolen".

Japanese engineers once arrogantly stated that "our technology cannot be caught up by China in 20 years".

In addition, companies from the United States, Japan, and other countries have also united to create numerous obstacles for the technological development and market promotion of Chinese enterprises, 

causing the positive momentum of Shenyang Machine Tool Factory to continue to be squeezed out and suffer losses for more than 10 years in a row.

The spark of domestically developed technology almost extinguished.

In June 2023, China officially announced the cancellation of machine tool orders for Japanese companies worth 111.2 billion yen (approximately 6 billion yuan),

 causing collective panic in the Japanese machine tool industry.

And demanded that Japanese companies leave China and prohibit the import of Japanese machine tool equipment, not even a single screw.

This time, China has cancelled 45% of Japanese machine tool orders, which is equivalent to depriving the Japanese machine tool industry of nearly half of its revenue source, causing huge losses and difficulties for Japanese machine tool enterprises.

This will not only affect the production and operation of Japanese machine tool enterprises, but also affect their competitiveness and position in the global market.

More importantly, this decision is also a warning and counterattack from China on the Japanese government's policy towards China.

Recently, according to CCTV News, China's machine tool production volume is now as high as 182.3 billion yuan, making it undoubtedly the world's number one!

Among them, in the high-end industry, the gantry series of Shenyang Machine Tool in China has broken through the 0.01mm bottleneck, ranking among the top.

Although there is still a certain gap between the development of China's machine tool industry and developed countries, this gap is gradually narrowing

In fact, rather than unilaterally canceling machine tool import orders from Japan, it is more likely that Japan's industrial suppression policy towards China has led to today's situation.

After all, Japan has chosen to highly cooperate with the United States and Western countries to curb the development of China's precision machine tool industry. China can naturally refuse to import Japanese machine tools in order to increase its market share in the domestic market.

Nowadays, China's heavy reliance on imported machine tools has become a thing of the past, and the machine tool industry is not only gradually replacing imports, but also starting to reverse overseas exports.

Recently, according to data released by the China Association of Industry, China's export output value accounts for 29% and consumption value reaches as high as 32%.

For Japan, not only did it lose Chinese orders, but its share in the international market also continued to shrink. This also caused Japanese media such as Asahi Shimbun to reflect: "The consequence of following the wrong person is to lift a stone and hit oneself in the foot

With the development of domestic technology, Chinese manufacturing will inevitably go global.