Where is China's highway maintenance machinery going?

Undoubtedly, under the push of large-scale highway construction, in the future, pavement maintenance machinery will become an indispensable part of the Chinese construction machinery market. However, although we can foresee an increase in the demand for road maintenance machinery in the future, the development trend of this market is not clear. The imperfect technical specifications of China's maintenance construction, the immature R&D and manufacturing level of pavement maintenance machinery, and the insufficient attention of users to maintenance and construction are all affecting the development track of the road maintenance machinery market.

Discussion on the status quo and development path

In the past 20 years, the total length of highways in China has been rising at a double-digit rate every year. By the end of 2011, this value has reached 85,000 kilometers. At the same time, the total mileage of roads is close to 4 million kilometers. But in parallel, the development of the road maintenance industry is relatively slow. Most roads have different degrees of damage and need to be repaired or overhauled.

In this context, the rapid development of the road maintenance machinery market has been spurred, making it a high-profile emerging field in the construction machinery industry, and a number of enterprises specialized in road construction and road maintenance equipment have emerged.

However, the maintenance machinery belonging to the sub-sector has higher requirements for the refinement and specialization of equipment, and the annual market capacity is relatively small, which affects the development of enterprises and markets in the industry to a certain extent. Since the first asphalt spreader appeared, the development pattern of the maintenance machinery market has been stable, the number of involved enterprises has increased, and the scale of enterprises has been small. The problem of homogenization of products and brands has become an obvious problem in the market.

From the perspective of industry enterprises, the development of China's highway maintenance machinery is in a period of pseudo-prosperity. Many small companies are rushing to eat in the market, while large companies conduct product research and development in their own strategic sectors, and the market lacks effective health operation mechanisms. At this stage, whether the road maintenance machinery enterprise can stand and develop, the key lies in whether it can independently innovate, pay attention to product research and development, and maximize the satisfaction of market demand. Developed products suitable for the status quo of China's highways, meet the construction requirements and working conditions, and are accepted by the market. Enterprises should design and manufacture equipment through independent innovation from the perspective of users. Due to its particularity, the speed of product upgrading in China will surpass that of Western countries. It is necessary to abandon imitation and insist on independent innovation in order to grasp the extremely broad market opportunities in the future and prepare enterprises for the peak of China's road maintenance. At the same time, our company should also pay attention to the differentiated construction of products and brands. With product specialization and serialization as the guide, we will continue to develop the market, improve the marketing and service network, technological innovation, quality service, and improve quality with quality service. .

Problem

The first is the mechanism issue. China's road maintenance mechanism is relatively backward, the concept of reconstruction and light maintenance is relatively serious, and there is not enough understanding of maintenance management. There is also a lack of clear restrictions on laws and regulations. It can be said that road maintenance work is not placed in an important position in road management. Most areas are still in the stage of large-scale road construction, lacking attention to road maintenance.

The second is the lack of a necessary normative system on the road maintenance quota. It is necessary to establish maintenance quotas for the characteristics of different regions and geological environments in China. The existing maintenance quota lacks theoretical basis and recognition criteria, and the flexibility is large. This is very unfavorable for the division of maintenance management funds. The effective improvement of the quality of maintenance is also affected, and the specific demand for maintenance machinery is also biased.

The third is the growing problem of poor mechanical management. We have introduced a lot of maintenance machinery from abroad, which is really suitable for China's road maintenance features. Mechanical adaptability is relatively poor, resulting in poor maintenance and management confusion. Moreover, there is a serious shortage of problems in the development of mechanical development. Good maintenance machinery does not have the proper process to achieve maximum efficiency, resulting in poor mechanical utilization.

The fourth is that the overall quality of maintenance managers is generally low. At present, China is still in the period of highway construction and development. A large number of relevant technical personnel and management personnel are involved in the construction of highways, which makes the maintenance management personnel seriously lack of high-quality professional and technical personnel and management personnel.

Fifth, with the increasing level of highways, artificial maintenance can not meet the needs of road maintenance from ergonomics, quality, and time. The classification of highways requires mechanization and specialization of road maintenance. In particular, the maintenance of high-grade roads urgently requires new types of maintenance machinery.

Sixth corrective maintenance is currently the most widely used, and preventive maintenance techniques are in the process of re-recognizing and promoting. The technical level and practical performance of the matching mechanical equipment are still far from the foreign countries, and can not meet the needs of the use and promotion of preventive maintenance technology.