Mould is the basic process equipment for industrial production, known as the "mother of industry". 75% of the rough processing of industrial parts, 50% of the finishing parts by the mould, the vast majority of plastic products are also formed by the mould. As the basic industry of the national economy, mould involves machinery, automobile, light industry, electronics, chemical industry, metallurgy, building materials and other industries, the scope of application is very wide. Mould industry is an important field of high-tech industrialisation, in recent years China's mould industry has developed rapidly, mould industry has been dependent on imports from the past subsidiary industries to independent new industries. The world's mould production centre is also being transferred to China, China has become a large country of mould production and consumption, mould enterprises in the new investment, processing equipment to account for 80% of the investment. According to statistics, in 2010, China's total sales of moulds reached 112 billion yuan or so, an increase of more than 14% over the previous year, while the national market for mould equipment has more than 4 billion yuan or more, and every year also at a rate of about 20% growth. This shows that China's mould industry in the post-crisis period has gained a better recovery growth, growth rate and back on the double-digit.

    At present, China's total mould production has ranked among the world's leading mould enterprises, according to the 2008 industrial census in China, the country has a total of about 30,000 mould production enterprises (factories, points), employing nearly 1 million people, of which the mould manufacturing industry, the main revenue of more than 5 million yuan of enterprises in the country more than 2,800, more than 400,000 employees. But the mould design and manufacturing level in general than Germany, the United States and other countries lag behind, as shown in the following: the low technology content of the mould has been oversupplied, while the higher technology content in the medium and high-grade moulds are still far from being able to adapt to the needs of the national economy, such as precision, complex stamping moulds and plastic moulds, car cover moulds, electronic connectors and other electronic products such as high-grade moulds are still a large portion of the moulds are still dependent on imports. But China's mould is still in a backward state, analysis has 9 reasons.

    First, the total supply exceeds demand, the lack of medium and high-grade moulds; Second, the enterprise organizational structure, product structure, technical structure and import and export structure is not reasonable enough; Third, the mould product level is lower than the international level, the production cycle is higher than the international level; Fourth, the development of poorer capacity, poor economic efficiency; Fifth, the national policy support for the mould industry is still to be strengthened; Sixth, a serious shortage of talent, scientific research and development and technological research and development Investment is too little; seven is not high level of technology and equipment, supporting bad, low utilization rate; eight is specialisation, standardisation, commercialisation degree is low, poor collaboration; nine is the mould materials and mould-related technology is backward.

  　In the face of problems and deficiencies, China's mould enterprises should join forces, division of labour and cooperation, sharing of resources, to achieve a leap in the level of technology. She said that if enterprises have a clear division of labour, the implementation of industry self-regulation and the establishment of a price system for fair competition, rather than each other's prices, vicious competition, you can focus on solving problems in a particular area, both to improve efficiency and reduce the difficulty of product development. If companies can share the results of research and development, it will reduce the huge investment, and the speed of research and development will also be improved.

    China's mould manufacturing as an industry started not too early, but after more than 20 years of rapid development, is now also beginning to take shape, and the emergence of a number of competitive mould manufacturing enterprises, the relevant information shows that the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong has become China's mould industry is the most developed, the highest technological content of the region.

    It is predicted that with the accelerated transfer of the centre of gravity of the global processing industry to China, this region is likely to develop into a world mould production centre within 10 years. But undeniably, for the whole of China's mould manufacturing industry, should make full use of the rapid rise of China's mould industry opportunities, through the provision of related services to achieve the integration of resources, supporting each other's purposes. So that it is possible to make the mould industry out of the current unfavourable situation!