Chinese and foreign pumps are becoming more and more competitive

The contest between local brand companies and foreign brand companies is quietly expanding from market share to R&D.

After one year's preparation, Fujian Far East Motor Group added new models. On March 8, Fujian Far East Mechanical and Electrical Products R&D Co., Ltd. was established. In the past two years, foreign well-known pump giants: KSB, Ville, Grundfos Denmark, FOSS, ITT Flygt, Japan EBARA, Mitsubishi, and Hitachi have all transferred their R&D centers to China.

“In the past two years, the Chinese and foreign pump giants have frequently made efforts to develop R&D, which means that the competition between the two sides for the technological highlands has entered a white-hot phase.” A senior expert from the Shenyang Pump Research Institute told a reporter on March 19.

Transnational corporations are rampant: "China is shifting from manufacturing to a big country. We must give it a high degree of attention," said the head of China's Wiler Pump Company in China on March 19th.

It is reported that the company already has a large R&D team in China. At the same time, the responsible person also said that their research and development conditions are good and targeted.

In fact, in the past two years, the investment focus of multinational companies in China has shifted from the expansion of production capacity to product development. For example, Hitachi established a R&D and production base in Wuxi, China, and sent a “sound and defensive officer” to China to take over the leader's seal. After KSB established a sole-owned company in China, the first thing was to recruit talents in China.

The local brands are quick to whip up the local brand enterprises that are in a weak position for R&D. Today, as the price advantage gradually disappears, they are also stepping up their efforts to catch up with multinational companies.

At the opening ceremony of Fujian Far East Electromechanical Products R&D Co., Ltd., Chen Jianming, chairman of Fujian Far East Electric Group, revealed that after the establishment of the R&D company, it was mainly dedicated to the theoretical and engineering applications of domestic pumps, motors, water supply and drainage equipment. At the same time, domestic high-tech talents are widely brought together and world-class R&D measures are adopted to enhance the core competitiveness of domestic machinery and electronic products. In the next three to five years, not only will a large R&D team be formed, but also a qualitative leap in terms of independent innovation, energy conservation and consumption reduction, and it will be built into a domestic first-class R&D center.

However, compared with multinational corporations, the existing R&D strength of local brand companies is still weak, and product development is not satisfactory. From the overall situation, about half of the R&D institutions fail to play their due role. Taking the Shenyang Water Pump Research Institute, which was established at the earliest stage in the country, as an example, its R&D personnel are still only dozens of people.

Qian Yichao, president of the China Drainage and Irrigation Machinery Industry Association, said with concern: "Technology development is a long-term task, and it must be closely integrated with the market. In particular, the transformation of scientific research achievements into productive forces requires a long process and must be proposed in the near future. In addition to the long-term goal, we must also have a good leader and some elite soldiers in order to truly play the role of the R&D company.To increase the value-added technology of the products and establish the brand of the company, we must also bring good results to the industry. head."

Industry analysts believe that before China's accession to the WTO, local brand companies relied on price advantages and cheap labor costs, which slowed down the pace of transnational companies’ products in the Chinese market. With the end of China's WTO accession period, the competition between Chinese and foreign companies is short-spoken, hard-hitting, technologically advanced, and more in line with the national energy saving, consumption reduction, and environmental protection policies. Whoever will win in a new round of market competition.

Accelerating the adjustment of industrial structure According to the deputy mayor of Fu'an City, Li Guanghui, in recent years, the motor pump industry cluster in Fujian's Longdong area has formed a certain scale, and the export of small and medium-sized motor water pumps has accounted for one-third of the country's share. Fujian Far East Mechanical and Electrical Products After the establishment of R&D Co., Ltd., it will play an active role in adjusting the regional industrial structure and promoting the technological progress of the entire industry.

It is based on this understanding that Fujian Far East Electric Group decided to have a big move in technology research and development.

According to Chen Jianming, the sales revenue of Fujian Far East Electric Group exceeded 200 million yuan in 2007, and its products have a high reputation and reputation in the domestic and foreign markets.

With the continuous expansion of market share, especially in the last two years, the high-end market demands higher and higher technology and quality of products. “Export-oriented enterprises like the Far East are basically manufactured according to the requirements of foreign users. Due to the lack of core technology products, there are not less than 10 government procurement projects that are wasted in my hands, and if they seize such project companies, It will be a step up,” said Chen Jian, general manager of Fujian Far East Electric Group. “How to increase the technological content of products and shift from labor-intensive enterprises to high-tech enterprises has become an urgent task.”

Chen Jianming stated that the establishment of Fujian Far East Mechanical and Electrical Products R&D Co., Ltd. is not just for the service of a company in the Far East Electric Group, but is dedicated to comprehensively enhancing the product structure of the electromechanical industry. The focus of the work in the future is to find new breakthroughs in the integration of production, education and research, and focus on improving the company's core competitiveness.

It is understood that in addition to the Far East of Fujian, a number of well-known domestic pump companies, such as the Tianjin Ganquan Pump Group, have also established their own R&D centers with "well-married" domestic famous universities.

"First-rate research teams must have first-rate talent." Chen Jianming said that he will recruit, train, and train first-rate R&D teams nationwide.

This means that a new round of competition will begin in the fight for talent. According to the current recruitment plans announced by major companies, the demand for high-end R&D talents will be at least tens of thousands in the future.