The localization rate of major engineering pump products is gradually increasing, and currently it has basically met the needs of national economic construction and development. However, in terms of the current overall situation of the industry, there is still a gap between China and industrialized countries. Especially with weak independent development capabilities of enterprises, the core technology of products with high technological content and added value urgently needed for national economic development has not been mastered, and.....

The localization rate of major engineering pump products is gradually increasing, and currently it has basically met the needs of national economic construction and development. However, in terms of the current overall situation of the industry, there is still a gap between China and industrialized countries. Especially with weak independent development capabilities of enterprises, the core technology of products with high technological content and added value urgently needed for national economic development has not been mastered, and there are still many problems that need to be solved urgently.
1. Lack of investment in research and development funds
There is a significant gap between domestic enterprises and some well-known foreign companies in terms of product technology accumulation and new product development. Insufficient investment in technology and research and development has become a major factor restricting independent research and development in the water pump manufacturing industry. According to incomplete industry statistics, R&D investment accounts for less than 2% of a company's sales revenue. Compared with well-known foreign companies, the R&D investment in the entire industry appears to be minimal, seriously restricting the research and development of new technologies, products, materials, and processes.
2. Weak independent innovation capability
The digestion and absorption of introduced technology are slow, and most enterprises have weak technological innovation capabilities, lacking independent intellectual property manufacturing technology and product technology. Although most of the products in the water pump industry have basically achieved independent production and manufacturing, some major technical equipment is still in the hands of foreign parties due to the lack of independent intellectual property rights. Most domestic water pump manufacturing enterprises are responsible for the low-end processing of products, and the breadth and depth of localization still need to be improved. For example, the nuclear grade pump products in the complete sets of nuclear power plant equipment that have already started domestic manufacturing, as well as the high-pressure boiler feedwater pump core package products in the complete sets of million kilowatt supercritical and ultra supercritical thermal power plant equipment; The key core technologies required for large-scale petrochemical equipment, such as high-pressure small flow pumps, corrosion-resistant chemical process pumps, corrosion-resistant and wear-resistant centrifugal pumps for coal liquefaction, and volumetric pumps, still rely on imports. This is the key direction that domestic pump industry enterprises need to focus on tackling.
3. Weak basic supporting components
The development of basic technology lags behind, and basic supporting components are even weaker links. For a long time, due to the lack of attention to basic technology research, the development of basic machinery and basic components in China's maintenance and manufacturing industry has lagged behind, becoming the primary factor restricting the development of major technological equipment. Basic supporting mechanical products such as mechanical seals, instruments, and minimum flow devices are mostly mid to low-end products, and the quality of new energy is not stable enough. This is also an important reason why many users choose to purchase foreign pump products.
4. Core technology relies on imports
Important technical equipment still needs to rely on imports, and the domestic pump industry places too much emphasis on imports, neglecting the digestion, absorption, and re innovation of imported technologies, resulting in a serious phenomenon of blind and repetitive imports. By introducing advanced design and manufacturing technologies from abroad to narrow the gap with the world's advanced level, it is still an important channel for the development and upgrading of technology in the water pump manufacturing industry. In the 1990s, although the domestic water pump manufacturing industry was able to provide some major equipment and products required for economic construction, its core technology still mainly relied on foreign imports, and the industry's own independent development, digestion, absorption, and innovation capabilities were still very weak.
5. The overall capability is too weak
The overall design and complete set capability of domestic water pump enterprises are too weak. The industry as a whole lacks general contracting enterprises with system design, complete set capabilities, and system service functions.
This is mainly reflected in the following two aspects:
On the one hand, China's water pump manufacturing industry has weak overall design and system integration capabilities in major complete projects, making it difficult to provide comprehensive solutions and turnkey projects for users;
On the other hand, the development of China's water pump manufacturing industry is a complex system engineering that requires close cooperation between research units, design units, manufacturing units, manufacturing enterprises, and application departments to achieve large-scale production.
However, looking at the current situation of the domestic water pump industry, it is completely different. Enterprises with general contracting capabilities have not yet formed, and research institutes, design institutions, and manufacturing enterprises are independent. Part of the complete equipment manufacturing system has gradually been crushed and crushed by multinational corporations in the fierce international and domestic market competition, becoming a component supplier for multinational corporations.
6. The application department is infatuated with imported water pumps
The lack of enthusiasm from the application department to purchase domestically produced water pumps will inevitably hinder the enthusiasm of water pump manufacturing enterprises to vigorously develop products with independent intellectual property rights and patents. After more than half a century of development, especially during the national "Eleventh Five Year Plan" and "Twelfth Five Year Plan" periods, with the construction of a number of key engineering projects such as one million tons of ethylene, one million tons of refining, and one million kilowatts of nuclear power in China, the development of pump products in China has been driven, and the number of domestically produced equipment is increasing. The technical level of Chinese water pump manufacturing enterprises has a significant price advantage compared to foreign countries, and domestic water pump products should obtain a larger market share. However, due to some user departments blindly pursuing the most advanced foreign technology and equipment, without considering cost-effectiveness, there are countless examples of national pump products being defeated by foreign products in domestic procurement bidding. Especially in terms of independent innovation, the pump product of the first major technical equipment developed by oneself has reached or surpassed similar foreign products, but the user department still refuses to use it under various excuses such as monthly operating performance, which makes it difficult for domestically produced pump products to be adopted in some key projects and projects.
7. Low level of "two modernizations"
The 12th Five Year Plan for National Development proposes to comprehensively improve the level of informatization and promote the deep integration of informatization and industrialization. During the 12th Five Year Plan period, pump manufacturing enterprises upgraded their ERP systems and introduced new Director6 production management systems, LPM systems, etc. However, the application rate of industry information technology in the pump manufacturing industry is still relatively low. Information technology has become an indispensable means to improve the production efficiency and added value of industrial industries, including product upgrades, remote monitoring of key equipment, wireless monitoring, and enterprise management, all of which are increasingly inseparable from the application of information technology. However, from the perspective of the domestic water pump industry, the comprehensive application of information technology has not been widely applied in its domestic water pump manufacturing industry, completely affecting the future sustainable development of the water pump industry. The lack of development momentum of water pump enterprises has constrained the overall development level of the industry, making it difficult for domestic water pump enterprises to compete with advanced foreign enterprises.
8. Industry norms urgently need to be updated
There is a lack of research on industry common technologies, and there is an urgent need to update design, process, materials, and manufacturing standards and specifications. Due to restructuring, some research institutes that serve the industry have become independent enterprises. The nature of their institutions and work focus have undergone significant changes, and their industry technical support has become increasingly weak. The development speed of new technologies and processes is relatively slow, and many standards such as design, process, materials, and manufacturing are difficult to connect with foreign countries, resulting in important bottlenecks that constrain the development of the water pump industry.