The Spring and Autumn Period of Machine Tools: Chinese Industry's Aspiration to Go Global

Name: The Spring and Autumn Period of Machine Tools: Chinese Industry's Aspiration to Go Global
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In the winter of 2013, in the workshop of Shenyang Machine Tool Factory, 25-year-old technician Chen Ming clutched a caliper and stared at the operating panel of a German Demag CNC lathe. At that time, China's lathe industry was deeply trapped in the "accuracy gap": 80% of high-end CNC systems relied on Siemens, and the core components of large-size vertical lathes had to be imported from Japan. News about the "One Belt, One Road" initiative had just been posted on the factory bulletin board. In the next twelve years, Chen Ming's life was closely tied to the Chinese lathe's "breaking out of the market": 286 nights of research to solve the problem of five-axis linkage accuracy of the "Liaodong", making domestic lathes the first to meet aviation parts processing standards; leading a team to take root in Jakarta, Indonesia, and weather the typhoon season Tried the production line and trained local workers to process high-speed rail parts; after encountering a technical blockade on the Kazakhstan project, it took the lead in jointly developing an independent CNC system "Huakong 1.0" With universities; during the epidemic, emergency parts were delivered to the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway construction site via China-Europe trains. This is not only a history of industrial breakthroughs, but also a fireworks chapter for urban industrialists: his cross-border collaboration with foreign trade specialist Zhou Yan, the ingenuity of Li Xiang, a technician born in 1995, to improve African mini lathes, and the transformation of Shenyang Machine Tool from "OEM OEM" to "standard setting". In 2025, the twelfth anniversary of the "Belt and Road Initiative", Chen Ming witnessed at the Port of Hamburg that "Chinese precision" lathes were recognized by European customers, and finally realized that the "Rutted Silk Road" is not only an industrial trajectory, but also a win-win road paved by a generation of industrial people.