On August 19th, the press conference for the China (Beijing) International Construction Machinery, Building Materials Machinery, and Mining Machinery Exhibition (BICES 2025) with the theme of "High end Green, Smart Future" was held in Beijing.
The meeting summarized the overall development of the construction machinery industry in the first half of this year and highlighted the latest curatorial plan and basic progress of BICES 2025.
The industry is showing a stable and positive trend
In the second half of 2024, the overall economic operation of the construction machinery industry will continue to maintain a stable recovery and steady progress trend, and the construction machinery industry as a whole will show a stable and positive trend.
In the first half of this year, the 12 major categories of products included in the statistics of the China Construction Machinery Industry Association (hereinafter referred to as the Association) sold a total of 968900 units domestically and internationally, a year-on-year increase of 4.58%; Among them, domestic sales totaled 597100 units, a year-on-year increase of 0.31%; The cumulative export volume was 371700 units, a year-on-year increase of 12.3%. Out of the twelve major product categories, 10 achieved positive growth in exports, with pavers increasing by 89.5%, while only excavators and crane trucks showed negative growth.
The sales volume of the twelve major categories of construction machinery products has shown a trend of stabilizing at the bottom, "said Su Zimeng, the president of the association. With the accelerated implementation of macroeconomic regulation policies, excavators, loaders, and other equipment closely related to infrastructure construction have shown a trend of bottoming out and rebounding. Since May, the sales volume of excavators in the domestic market has continuously achieved positive growth every month, indicating a clear trend of bottoming out.
According to association data, electric construction machinery represented by electric loaders, forklifts, and lifting work platforms have seen significant growth. In the first half of 2024, a total of 5114 electric loaders were sold, a year-on-year increase of 361%; Electric forklifts sold 468557 units in the first half of the year, an increase of 24.2% compared to the same period last year, accounting for 70.8% of the total forklift sales volume; The electric rate of the lifting work platform exceeds 90%. With the significant improvement of research and manufacturing capabilities in batteries, electric drives, and control systems, electric off highway dump trucks, excavators, cranes, bulldozers, concrete machinery, and others have been mass-produced and put into use.
The transformation of the industry towards high-end, intelligent, and green industries continues to accelerate, "said Su Zimeng." Although the market demand for some fields of construction machinery is currently under pressure, it can be seen that the market demand for construction machinery presents characteristics of high-end, diversified, and personalized. In order to meet the different needs of users, further enhance the core competitiveness of the industry, seize the high ground of future competition, and build new competitive advantages, industry enterprises have overcome multiple adverse effects, and digital transformation and intelligent upgrading continue to accelerate. Green manufacturing, green products, and green construction are being promoted in an orderly manner. "At present, a number of large-scale and intelligent construction machinery products are continuously put into the market, playing an important role in major engineering projects and infrastructure construction.
In the second half of 2024, the basic trend of China's overall long-term economic recovery and improvement has not changed, and favorable factors supporting the stable operation and high-quality development of the construction machinery industry continue to gather and increase. Su Zimeng believes that with the increase of macroeconomic regulation and the combination of policy effects, especially large-scale equipment updates, effective market demand for construction machinery will be released, and the development environment of the construction machinery industry will steadily improve. Although the adverse effects of external environmental changes have increased and the international situation is severe and complex, with the increasing recognition and appreciation of China's engineering machinery technology, products, and services by international users, as well as the continuous improvement and upgrading of industry enterprises' overseas business layout, the industry's export volume will still maintain a high level in the second half of the year. It is expected that the overall economic operation of the construction machinery industry will continue to maintain a stable recovery and progress trend in the second half of 2024, and the construction machinery industry as a whole will show a stable and positive trend.
As a benchmark for industry enterprises and institutions to showcase innovative achievements and demonstrate sustainable development capabilities, every BICES exhibition brings surprises and rich content to the industry. Su Zimeng pointed out that BICES, based in China and facing the world, not only provides assistance for the technological progress, brand enhancement, and market expansion of various participating units, but also provides a high-end platform for global engineering machinery, building materials machinery, mining machinery, special vehicles and other related enterprises in the entire industry chain and supply chain to achieve value added and cooperate and exchange with users.
Six new breakthroughs become highlights
BICES 2025 will create a green and intelligent display, communication, and cooperation platform. And on the basis of the original foundation, achieve six new breakthroughs that are larger, more comprehensive, updated, more specialized, more high-end, and more refined.
The theme of BICES 2025 is "high-end green, smart future". Focusing on this theme, BICES 2025 will set up four theme pavilions, including green development, major country heavy equipment, high-end supporting and foundation strengthening projects, intelligence and industrial Internet, as well as an outdoor exhibition area and 13 characteristic areas.
Green development is the foundation of high-quality development, and new quality productivity itself is green productivity. One of the important tasks of the Association's Dual Carbon Committee is to promote the green transformation and upgrading of construction machinery, cultivate and strengthen new driving forces for green development, develop new quality productive forces according to local conditions, and focus on promoting high-quality development of the industry. BICES 2025 will further promote the green and low-carbon series of action plans for construction machinery, and continue to create a green high-end display, exchange, and cooperation platform, including setting up a green zone, organizing special activities based on the latest hot topics, etc., to provide everyone with a display, exchange, cooperation, and promotion platform based on green and low-carbon technologies, products, and applications in the construction machinery industry.
Bigger. The BICES 2025 Green Zone will further expand its display area based on the BICES 2023 Green Zone, in order to better meet the exhibition needs of exhibitors and the experience expectations of visitors. This will provide exhibitors with a broader space to showcase their latest achievements in green and low-carbon technologies, products, and applications.
More complete. BICES 2025 Green Zone will showcase new energy engineering machinery hosts such as electric and hydrogen energy, including key components such as three electric matching, inspection and testing, charging and swapping, hydrogenation and other operation and maintenance technologies and equipment; Energy saving, low-carbon, and clean production technologies and equipment related to green manufacturing; New energy technologies and equipment that integrate wind, solar, and storage; Energy management and carbon management technologies and equipment provide a comprehensive and all-round exhibition space for enterprises and industries, providing audiences with opportunities for in-depth understanding and experience.
to update. The construction machinery industry has always adhered to innovation and transformation. The BICES 2025 Green Zone will focus on showcasing technological innovation, product innovation, application innovation, service innovation, and business model innovation that support the industry's green transformation, creating a green development display highland, accelerating the demonstration and promotion of advanced and applicable technologies, focusing on promoting the industry's green and low-carbon technological revolution, and actively promoting the accelerated development of new industries, new formats, and new business models with a green and low-carbon orientation.
More specialized. BICES will collaborate with high-quality resources, invite experts and users in professional fields to attend exhibitions and negotiate, and ensure the continuous sinking and implementation of exhibition and display effects. We will leverage the innovative mechanism of industry government, industry academia research, and application, promote supply-demand matching, provide market-oriented cooperation opportunities, and provide full chain and three-dimensional services from exhibition to exhibition, and then to win-win cooperation for the industry.
More high-end. BICES 2025， The Dual Carbon Committee of the Association will hold a high-end forum on the coordinated transformation and development of digitalization and greenization. While further promoting in-depth exchanges and cooperation in the industrial chain, it will explore topics such as the deep integration of digitalization and greenization, and the promotion of industry green development through standards. It will empower green transformation with digital technology and standardization work, and promote the formation of green and low-carbon production and lifestyle.
More refined. During BICES 2025, the association will continue to promote a new batch of tree selection activities around the green transformation and development of construction machinery, showcasing outstanding achievements in green development, technological innovation, and other aspects that have emerged throughout the industry. This is the meticulous creation of industry colleagues, and it is also an exquisite embodiment of the industry spirit. These representative enterprises have set leading benchmarks for the green development of the industry, contributed unique wisdom and strength, stimulated great innovation vitality, and promoted the development of the construction machinery industry towards a more efficient and environmentally friendly direction.
BICES was founded in 1989 and has successfully held 16 exhibitions so far. Qi Jun, honorary president and special advisor of the association, said that during this period, the industry has experienced both highs and lows. The total sales scale of the construction machinery industry has grown from about 20 billion yuan in the past to about 900 billion yuan now, which cannot be separated from the help and support of friends from various fields such as host enterprises, supporting enterprises, users, and news media in the industry. In the future, BICES will strive to become a platform for supporting and leading industry exhibitions and exchanges, promoting industry progress, especially in the areas of technological development, green innovation, and the creation of new quality productivity, playing an active role, and making BICES a more authoritative global engineering machinery industry event.
Wu Peiguo, Secretary General of the Association and Chairman of Beijing Tianshi Huagong International Exhibition Co., Ltd., stated that BICES will play a greater role in consolidating the foundation of high-quality development in the industry, promoting high-end, intelligent, and green development, and accelerating the comprehensive green transformation process of the country's economic and social development.
