Investigation and Analysis of Diamond Tool Industry in Danyang Area

Danyang was called Qua in ancient times, and it was named after the meaning of "Danfeng Chaoyang". Now it belongs to the county-level city of Jiangsu Province and the national health city. Danyang City has a long history and is one of the birthplaces of Wu culture. It is a cultural ancient city with a long history. Danyang is one of the largest diamond saw blade production bases in China. It is known as the “hometown of Chinese saw blades” and has nearly 100 industrial and trading enterprises engaged in the diamond tool industry and related supporting facilities. The annual output value of the industry is nearly 3 billion yuan, and the output accounts for one-third of the national saw blade production. The export of products accounts for nearly 50% of the total export of saw blades.

As one of the four major manufacturing bases for diamond tools in China, Danyang has two leading enterprises, “Jiangsu Fengtai Diamond Tools Manufacturing Co., Ltd.” and “Danyang Huachang Diamond Tools Manufacturing Co., Ltd.”, which are under the leadership of the development of leading enterprises. The diamond tool industry in Danyang has grown by leaps and bounds and has occupied an irreplaceable position in the country. However, compared with developed countries, the diamond tool related products in Danyang region, whether it is the technology and equipment level of the industry, or the specialization and serialization level of product varieties and the performance quality level of the products, there are still some gaps, so the transformation and upgrading potential It is imperative. In general, Danyang diamond tool industry still has some problems, such as low technological content of products, mostly in the middle and low grades, market competitiveness is not strong, and profits are weak. Faced with the grim situation, how to seek survival and development in the face of adversity has become the top priority of the Danyang diamond tool industry.

Big but not strong

In the survey of China's superhard materials network reporters, it was found that the current status of Danyang's diamond tool industry is similar to most of China's traditional manufacturing industries, with “scale” and “active capacity expansion” as its main development routes. The direct result of this measure is that the diamond tool products in Danyang area are highly homogenized. In order to compete for the market, the company is constantly competing for price reduction, and the profit of the products is thin and continues to decline. With the rising employment costs and management costs of enterprises in recent years, it is difficult for some enterprises to continuously invest more in new product development or technological innovation, which directly affects the technological innovation environment of enterprises and falls into a vicious circle.

In the investigation and interview, the reporter also found that most of the enterprises in the Danyang diamond tool industry belong to the “muffled and big fortune” and the style of behavior is quite low-key. Many small and medium-sized enterprises lack communication and communication with the outside world, and rarely participate in various conferences and events organized by industry associations. Concepts tend to be very conservative and obsolete. In technology research and development, enterprises sometimes fall into "closed doors." The lack of support and enthusiasm for technological innovation.

In general, although most of the enterprises in Danyang have begun to take shape, some enterprises are still more or less unable to get rid of the shadow of “family-style workshops”. Some small companies only focus on price factors and lack of support for technological innovation, so they have formed a fierce homogenization market competition. The gross profit of a product is even less than 10%.

With the changes in policies of the Chinese government in terms of resources, environmental protection and industrial transformation and upgrading, the extensive development model has come to an end. Many of the businesses that use "low-cost sales of resources" and "low-tech content and overcapacity" will gradually be squeezed. If enterprises do not want to be eliminated, the choice they will face is transformation and upgrading.

Reality and dream

In Danyang, there is neither the natural advantage of the largest stone production and processing base in the country like Quanzhou in Fujian, nor the geographical advantage of the central city of superhard materials industry in Zhengzhou, Henan. Instead, it has become the largest in China by its own strength. The diamond saw blade is produced at the export base. This cannot but be said to be a miracle. With the development and growth, Danyang leading enterprises have also set a development goal of “beyond the Korean diamond tool industry”. However, factors such as “lack of high-end technical talents”, “weak technical foundation” and “long-term commercialization of technology R&D investment” have constrained the development of diamond tool enterprises in Danyang.

China Superhard Materials Network reporter learned that although more and more enterprises have begun to pay attention to the market value brought by new products and new technology research and development, enterprises have to invest a lot of money to start research and development of new products in order to transform and upgrade, but because In the market, “cottage” has become a wind. After a new product is put into the market, there will be a lot of follow-up imitation in a short period of time. It is difficult for the company’s innovation rights to be truly respected and protected.

Secondly, "metal powder raw materials" has also been an important problem that plagues enterprises. In the process of Danyang Enterprise's diamond tool products moving from “mid-end market” to “high-end market” in the international market, product performance and quality stability have been affected by the performance of raw materials such as metal powder. As far as the current situation is concerned, the "short-board problem" of product performance caused by the "raw material" problem has not been effectively solved in a short period of time.

Anti-dumping haze

On May 3, 2005, US companies quoted the country’s customs statistics as saying that the export of diamond saw blades from China and South Korea increased from 8.7 million in 2002 to 13.4 million in 2004, causing US companies to fail to enjoy The benefits brought about by the boom in the construction industry, on the contrary, have reduced the profit margins of US companies, resulting in the bankruptcy of one company, the shrinking market share of many companies, and the fact that US counterparts are “trapped in the embarrassing situation of steel, rising energy costs and falling product prices” The low-cost imported diamond circular saw blades from China have caused substantial damage to the domestic industry in the United States. The American Diamond Saw Blade Manufacturers Union filed an indictment with the US Department of Commerce, alleging that diamond saw blades from China and South Korea were dumped in the United States and required an anti-dumping investigation.

On May 16, 2006, the US Department of Commerce initially determined that the dumping margin of Chinese enterprises was 2.50%~164.09%. The US Department of Commerce made a decision to impose anti-dumping duties of 2.5% to 164.09% on Chinese enterprises, which means that China will export in the future. All diamond saw blades in the United States may be subject to a punitive tariff of no less than 200%. After more than a year of repeated contests, on June 19, 2006, four of the six members of the US International Trade Commission believed that the Chinese diamond saw blade did not cause substantial damage to the US domestic industry and no longer imposed anti-dumping duties. China's export of American diamond saw blades will reduce the anti-dumping duty of 164.09% from the beginning to a weighted average tax rate of 14.9%, and finally obtain the best result of the anti-dumping duty "return to zero".

On July 22, 2011, the Chinese side proposed a supplementary consultation request, and the “zeroing” in the anti-dumping measures taken by the US diamond saw blades was also included in the dispute. This time, the WTO ruled that it provided a successful case for the United States to completely "zero" the diamond saw blade "return to zero" method.

However, as China's economic and trade exchanges with emerging countries as the emerging trading powers are expanding, the opportunities for trade frictions and disputes will increase as the market becomes more competitive. Second, countries will adopt more trade during the economic recession. Protection measures are regular performance. Therefore, China will naturally become the hardest hit by anti-dumping. In the future, the world's anti-dumping lawsuit investigations against China will only increase, how to take the initiative to effectively evade the "anti-dumping" lawsuit, or will once again test the collective wisdom of Danyang diamond tool enterprises.

Hope in the corner

The disappearance of demographic dividends, the reduction of labor supply, the increase in labor costs, and the decline in the willingness to work for a new generation of labor in the manufacturing sector have created enormous constraints on the international competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry. At the same time, traditional industries also have huge transformational space. Take diamond tools as an example. Although domestic low-end products have overcapacity and fierce competition, some high-value-added and high-end products required by high-end equipment manufacturing are still being imported. The tool industry can engage in import substitution through technological innovation, and this market capacity is huge.

Moreover, a series of targeted policies in China have begun to be implemented continuously. The State Council executive meeting decided to clean up and regulate the fees charged by enterprises, reduce the on-grid price of coal-fired power generation and the price of industrial and commercial electricity, and take measures to reduce the burden on enterprises and support the development of the real economy. Moreover, China has also paid more and more attention to issues such as intellectual property rights and financing of small and medium-sized enterprises. All of this has created development conditions for the transformation and upgrading of China's diamond tool enterprises.

There is no way in the world, and there are more people to go, and it will become a road. The meaning of Mr. Lu Xun’s sentence is very clear. Everything must be preceded by a precedent. China’s superhard materials and products industry has already passed the “primitive accumulation” of barbaric growth after more than 50 years of development. At the stage, the reason started again with the higher goal of “from big to strong”. With the "super hard" enterprising spirit of the super-hard tool companies in Danyang, the "Chinese Dream" of the transformation and upgrading of the super-hard materials industry will be realized soon.

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