In 2010, China's total output of castings reached 39.6 million tons, accounting for more than 40% of the world's total casting output, and ranked first in the world for 11 consecutive years. As the output of castings increases by double digits every year, our casting quality has also been significantly improved. We have been able to produce large-scale and complex castings such as automobiles, diesel engines and machine tools, and wind power, many of which replaced imports and filled the domestic gap. It is expected that the total amount of castings in China during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period will continue to grow steadily with the sustained development of the national economy.

At the same time, we should clearly see that the overall quality of castings in our country is still not high, and most foundry companies are lagging behind in their level of craftwork. This has led to a series of problems such as low labor productivity, low product quality, severe pollution, frequent accidents, and vicious competition. The problem has always plagued the healthy and balanced scientific development of the foundry industry in China. The main reason for this phenomenon is that there are too many foundry companies and the average size is too small. According to incomplete statistics, the total number of foundry companies in China is about 30,000. The average annual output of the enterprises is only 1,320 tons, while the average annual output of foundries in developing countries, India and Brazil, is 1,450 tons and 2,300 tons, respectively. The German foundry companies The average annual output is up to 10,000 tons.

China's foundry industry must fundamentally change the situation of being big but not strong, and must speed up the adjustment of industrial structure. The restructuring of the foundry industry is based on market competition and survival of the fittest; second, policy orientation. With the increasingly fierce market competition and the implementation of the admittance system for the foundry industry, through the merger and reorganization of enterprises, restricting blind expansion, redundant construction, and avoiding serious excess production capacity, it is bound to eliminate a waste of resources, pollute the environment and have no safety. The backward production enterprises, improve the scale of production, reduce the number of enterprises. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology commissioned the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Development of the Foundry Industry" formulated by the China Foundry Association. By the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan," the number of foundry companies in China will be reduced from the current 30,000 to 20,000. We will strive to reduce it to 10,000 by 2020. This is the major trend of development. Only in this way can China's foundry industry step into a benign development track.

Against this background, there are still some localities and companies that have moved against the wind and have blindly expanded and repeated the construction of new foundries in the absence of any market, no planning, and no professional and technical personnel, such as:

—— Jiangnan, a small-known founder of wind power castings, knows that the production capacity of the wind power castings market is excessive, and does not exert itself to solve the casting quality problems, but blindly expands and builds new production wind power castings foundries, resulting in fierce market competition. Lost in the middle.

—— A new foundry in a certain province has a planned area of ​​2,500 mu with an annual output of 500,000 tons of castings. In the first phase, it has invested 600 million yuan to build a foundry with nearly 90,000 square meters of workshops and an annual output of 200,000 tons of wind power castings. Due to the overcapacity in the wind power casting market, coupled with the market's understanding of the new foundry, plus the talents Insufficient and other factors, the factory could not be put into production on schedule.

——A county planning to put forward an annual production of 5 million tons of qualified castings under the premise of no product (market), experts involved in the plan explained that this output is 1/8 of the total output of the national castings, it is unlikely Achieved, and the county staff said: "can not change, this is the opinion of the leadership." Not coincidentally, similar leaders in other provinces determine the phenomenon of indicators.

——In a blast furnace enterprise producing cast iron in a province, the factory is not called “×× smelter” but called “××continuous crankshaft factory”. He asked him where to produce the crankshaft. He pointed to a pile of waste items without any casting. Production plant. This situation has existed in some small blast furnace enterprises that produce cast iron. Some have just built a shell factory, and even the wall has no time to build and there is no time to repair it.

The National "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" clearly stated that we must take scientific development as the theme and change the mode of development as the main line. The above list of practices clearly deviated from the requirements of the Central Government. In order to achieve the scientific development of the foundry industry in the next five years, we must strictly control new production capacity and speed up the elimination of backward production capacity. Strict implementation of the national industrial policy, and can not blindly "follow the trend", in the meantime, spread the stalls, on the project, expand production capacity. The heads of local governments and enterprises must conduct in-depth investigations into the actual conditions of the market and enterprises and do a good job in the preliminary planning. They should not only maintain a steady growth rate, but also pay attention to enhancing endogenous power, focusing on the connotation of growth, and stressing the quality of development. And benefits, pay attention to green harmonious development, pay attention to take social responsibility. Avoid repeated construction and blind investment. Local economic authorities and industry associations should assume the responsibility for supervision, actively promote joint reorganization of enterprises, encourage the extension of industrial chains and form new economic growth points.