1、The development history of China's grain processing machinery manufacturing industry

　　The change and development of China's grain processing machinery manufacturing industry reflects the historical process of the country's transition from a planned economy to a socialist market economy. Under the planned economy system, China's grain processing machinery manufacturing industry was guided by the national plan to support. At that time, the main grain machinery factories in China had their own focus, and several grain machinery factories under the Ministry of Grain had a clear division of labour. For example, Wuxi Grain Machinery Factory focused on the production of flour milling machines; Changzhi Grain Machinery Factory focused on high square sieves; Anlu Grain Machinery Factory produced rice milling equipment and oil processing equipment; Yongdeng Grain Machinery Factory was responsible for the production of cleaning equipment; even down to relatively general equipment such as wind shutters, fans and conveying equipment also had their own designated manufacturers to produce. Planned economy to China's grain processing machinery manufacturing industry on a deep historical imprint, so that most grain processing machinery manufacturing enterprises a single product, complete sets of poor capacity, small scale, technology scattered, weak development capacity, low efficiency. Over the past few decades, the development of China's grain processing machinery manufacturing industry has gone through three major stages.

　　(1) In the 1970s, the former Ministry of Grain organised a nationwide selection of rice milling equipment. Through this work, the level of China's rice milling machinery was greatly improved and was by then among the world's most advanced and already in a leading position in Southeast Asia. Our rice milling machine technology is still no less advanced than its counterpart in the world today.

　　(2) Since the mid-1980s, China has introduced hundreds of sets of foreign advanced flour, rice milling, feed and other complete sets of processing equipment and technology, through nearly ten years of digestion and absorption of research work, comprehensively improved the level of China's grain processing machinery manufacturing, and shortened the gap between China's grain processing machinery and the international advanced level. However, subject to the constraints of the system and conditions at the time, the digestion and absorption of grain processing machinery and equipment is mainly undertaken by the original manufacturer, scattered forces, the lack of domestic equipment sets and large-scale production considerations, so that China's grain processing machinery manufacturing industry missed a good opportunity for industrial integration, large-scale development. Happily, feed processing machinery manufacturing, rice milling machinery field also appeared complete sets of equipment and technology manufacturers - Jiangsu Shenyang Group, Jiangsu Zhengchang Group, Hunan Chenzhou Grain Machinery Factory, Zhejiang Zhuji Grain Machinery Factory, etc., to become the first grasp of complete sets of equipment and technology of grain processing machinery manufacturing enterprises. These complete sets and large-scale operations have demonstrated to their national counterparts their advantages and characteristics in terms of technical level, equipment quality and after-sales service.

　　(3) With the deepening of the country's reform and opening up, the grain processing machinery manufacturing industry, like other machinery industries, has gradually moved towards the market. Especially since 1998, the reform of government institutions, so that the management of grain processing liberalized, in the planned economic system of many state-run grain processing machinery manufacturing plants because they can not adapt to the new market economy system, have fallen into difficulties. After a wave of restructuring of state-owned enterprises, most of them have become factories under various ownership systems such as collective, individual and joint-stock through management contracting or overall sale. They rely on the accumulation of decades of talent resources, technical strength and brand advantages of old factories, coupled with the flexible mechanism of private enterprises, some bold private factory leaders focus on scientific research and cooperation with scientific research institutes, spend a lot of money to introduce advanced mechanical processing equipment, improve the quality of grain processing machinery manufacturing, gradually to complete sets, large-scale business direction, while focusing on building brand-name products to improve their competitiveness. For example.

　　In 1998, more than ten backbones of the former Anlu Grain Machinery Factory formed Hubei Yongxiang Grain Machinery Company in the form of a shareholding system, and the company grew rapidly. By 2005, Yongxiang had assets of over 100 million yuan, annual sales revenue of 80 million yuan and taxes of 5 million yuan, far exceeding the performance of the original factory. The rise of Yongxiang Grain Machinery Company triggered a swarming effect, and now Anlu's private grain machinery enterprises have grown to nearly thirty, with total assets of nearly 300 million yuan and nearly 3,000 employees in the grain machinery industry. Grain machine products have expanded to rice milling, oil extraction, flour, storage and transportation, puffing, threshing six series of more than 100 varieties, products exported to more than 20 countries and regions, sales of grain machinery in 2006 exceeded 400 million yuan.

　　With the reform of the economic system, breaking the boundaries of the industry, some enterprises of the national defense industry system, with the military to civilian preferences and the advantages of enterprises in processing equipment, invest a lot of power in the development and production of grain machinery, such as the Tianjin Nuclear Physical and Chemical Institute, Hafei, etc.. Most of these enterprises aim at technically difficult equipment, such as: flour processing equipment in the mill, high square sieve, flour cleaning machine and rice colour sorter.

　　According to a latest information provided by the China Agricultural Machinery Industry Association, at present, China's grain and oil and agricultural machinery industry enterprises are about 8000, with a certain scale of production of 1470, of which 487 state-owned or state-controlled enterprises, private enterprises 916, 67 three-funded enterprises, divided into agricultural and sideline food processing special equipment, special equipment for feed production, animal husbandry machinery, mechanized farming tools and so on. Up to now, the grain and oil and agricultural machinery enterprise assets of 66.96 billion yuan, of which state-owned or state-controlled enterprises assets of 35.8 billion yuan, accounting for a total of 53.5%; private enterprises assets of 27.46 billion yuan, accounting for a total of 41%; three-funded enterprises assets of 3.68 billion yuan, accounting for a total of 5.5. industry employs 410,000 people.

　　From the 1990s, foreign-funded enterprises have taken the way of joint venture and sole proprietorship to enter the country. Switzerland Bühler company in China sold hundreds of sets of flour, rice processing equipment, in Wuxi, Shenzhen, invested in the establishment of a wholly-owned grain processing machinery, electronic equipment manufacturing plant, and recently acquired Shaanxi grain machine and other enterprises, the intention to occupy the high-end market of grain processing machinery in China is evident. Japan Satake company through Japan's imports of rice in the northeast of China, successfully marketed dozens of sets of rice milling machinery and equipment to China, and established a production base for grain processing machinery in Suzhou in 1998, and a second workshop in Xiamen in 2004, has set up a number of offices in Beijing, Harbin, Shenyang, Chengdu, Xiamen, etc., while using its acquisition of the British Simon company technology in China to market peeling and milling equipment and technology. The Italian company GBS, which also has more than 70 complete sets of flour production lines in China, entered Beijing in 2004 with the establishment of Gibbison Grain Machinery Company. The American company Crown established an office in Beijing in 1997 and set up a joint venture with Wuhan Friendship in 2001, becoming one of the most competitive producers of oil and grease processing equipment in China.

　　To sum up, China's grain machinery manufacturing field has brought together international multinational companies with the world's most advanced manufacturing technology, China's grain machinery enterprises are struggling hard in the face of strong foreign competitors, technical upgrading and organizational integration within the industry, some leading enterprises have CNC lathes, CNC machining centres, laser cutting machines and spraying lines and other advanced equipment and processing means, grain machinery manufacturing industry has a worthy brand-name products that customers trust.