He Jiaqun: Development Trend of Bearing Industry in China

He Jiaqun: Senior Engineer of China Bearing Industry Association, National Science and Technology Awards Review Expert, Master Tutor of Xi'an Jiaotong University, enjoying special allowance from the State Council. He is currently a member of the China Bearing Industry Association. Focusing on the research of large bearing technologies, railway train bearings, oil drilling rig bearings, large-scale loading mechanical bearings, and national defense equipment bearings, the research on the development trend of China's bearing industry is forward-looking.

At the Wafangdian China Bearing Capital Bearing Industry Summit Forum held on April 28th, He Jiaqun made a surprising statement: As far as an agglomeration district is concerned, the bearing industry in China is neither large nor strong. He Jiaqun believes that currently Wafangdian City has entered the “Top 50 Chinese Industrial Clusters”, but strictly speaking, it cannot be called a bearing industrial cluster or industrial agglomeration.

In the first year of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, what is the relationship between “big” and “strong” in Wafangdian City, which is in the critical period of bearing industry transformation and upgrading? Prof. He Jiaqun believed that we must change our concepts and change from being "bigger and stronger" to "strengthening and becoming bigger." "Big" is the scale of the economy, and "strong" is the core competive of core technology, core products, and core capabilities. Emphasize that "big" should be based on "strong" and "big" should change to "strong." We should support bigger and bigger companies, guide resources to concentrate on dominant companies, and simultaneously integrate or eliminate small and medium-sized enterprises. If the number of future enterprises can be reduced from the current 600 “downs” to 300 or less, the proportion of the top 30 companies’ bearing sales will be sufficient. From the current 45% to more than 80%, this is the healthy layout of the bearing industry.

He said that Wafangdian, as the largest bearing industry cluster in China, has a revenue of 23.2 billion yuan from its main bearing business in 2010, which translates into US dollars, and it can't catch up with the world's bearing giant SKF (US$7.7 billion) and Schaeffler. 7.5 billion US dollars) more than one. The growth of some companies that do not reach the scale and lack of technical support has squeezed the resources and markets of the dominant companies, causing homogenous and vicious competition. This is like adding 100 sheep or sheep, increasing it to 1,000, or a group of sheep, and not becoming a tiger.

He Jiaqun suggested that during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, Wafangdian should introduce domestic and foreign experts through multiple channels. Not only can they bring technology, they can also bring the market. At the same time, we must aim at developing strategically emerging industries such as aviation, satellites, rail transit equipment, ocean engineering, and intelligent manufacturing equipment, so that our country’s bearing industry will truly become a bearing power with a core technology. Another major building of soft power is brand influence. By the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, in addition to the ZWZ (Watz axis) brand becoming a well-known brand in the world, there will be another five to ten domestically-acclaimed brands that have received user recognition in certain fields.