Chinese Construction Machinery On the International Market

The Chinese construction equipment includes a great choice of specialized machinery. Alongside excavators, cranes and loaders, there is also railway construction machinery, various-purpose trucks, building hoists, pneumatic equipment etc.

The capacity of the Chinese building equipment market in 2008 (including the sales of pneumatic equipment and other stationary construction machinery) has been estimated at $38,6 billion. In the year of 2008 the Chinese building machinery market increased by 30%. Still, despite the tremendous increase, analysts do not find the Chinese market a profitable sector to make investments in due to the low cost of the machinery manufactured by China-based companies. The price for the Chinese machinery is less than 50 - 150 % of the price for imported machinery, which appeals to many Chinese customers.

CHINESE CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AND OVERSEAS CAPITAL

Now foreign enterprises choose to cooperate closely with Chinese manufacturers. The majority of the flourishing companies of construction machinery brought their own brands to the Chinese sector. Time passed they started to cooperate with their Chinese companies. This strategy helps foreign manufacturers take a closer look at the Chinese building machinery sector and assure the sales of their products but under another trade mark. As a result, overseas manufacturers have lessened the cost of their production and at the same time have remained competitive on the market. Small Chinese manufacturers that failed to cooperate with foreign business partners were knocked out of the competition. The close cooperation between Chinese producers and their overseas partners has become highly profitable for both parties. For instance, two large companies SANY and Zoomlion earned about $2, 86 billion in the year of 2008. Moreover, Zoomlion has bought the European manufacturer CIFA and, thus, has become the number 1 producer and supplier of concrete mixers in the world.

Lately the export of the Chinese machinery has decreased, primarily due to the decline in the demand for construction equipment on the biggest markets of the USA, the EU and Russia. Producers of front end loaders and forklift loaders have suffered greatly. The matter is the majority of highly developed nations have suspended some big building projects because of the economic crisis, which has caused the decrease in the demand. A number of preventative steps have been taken by the Russian government to protect Russian producers from the influx of the Chinese production.

Thus, during the coming years Chinese companies will be producing construction equipment largely for the home market, at least until the global economic crisis finishes. The Chinese government has granted a $570-billion aid to the sector. Still, the money will not be enough for all manufacturing enterprises and they look forward to cooperation with overseas companies.

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