On the morning of August 18, 2020, the "2020 Online Forum for the Coordination of the Development of the Construction Machinery Industry" hosted by the Institute of Machinery Industry Information and undertaken by the Institute of Industry and Market Research of the Institute of Machinery Industry Information was held on the "Jiuzhou Cloud Broadcasting" platform Live broadcast. Experts from the construction machinery industry, business management and sales personnel, and industry-related media personnel participated in this forum, with more than 20,000 online participants. At the meeting, Su Zimeng, secretary general of the China Construction Machinery Industry Association, reported on the operation of the construction machinery industry in the first half of this year.
In terms of sales, on the basis of the significant increase in sales during the same period last year, in the first half of 2020, the sales of 12 major construction machinery products according to the China Construction Machinery Industry Association still increased by 14.4% year-on-year. Among them, the sales of excavators in the first half of the year reached 170,425 units, a record high in the same period, an increase of 24.2%; the sales of truck cranes increased by 15%; the sales of road rollers increased by 7.28%; the sales of lifting work platforms increased by 53.6%; industrial Sales of vehicles (mainly forklifts, including internal combustion forklifts and electric forklifts) increased by 9.98% year-on-year. It is worth mentioning that in recent years, forklifts have maintained steady growth, and the sales of electric forklifts have steadily increased, and the current sales accounted for more than 40%.
In terms of exports, in the first half of this year, according to the statistics of the 12 major construction machinery varieties by the China Construction Machinery Industry Association, only the sales of excavators, industrial vehicles, road rollers and pavers have achieved year-on-year growth, while the sales of the remaining varieties have varying degrees of sales. Decline. Currently, the export of my country's construction machinery products is facing greater pressure.
Looking forward to the whole year of 2020, it is expected that the domestic construction machinery market will continue to grow steadily, but exports will face greater pressure, and greater efforts will be required to maintain growth. At the same time, it is expected that the construction machinery market demand will maintain steady development in 2021, and the new and updated market demand will play a role together.
