The "agricultural machinery to the countryside" subsidy policy has a significant effect. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture, as of April 30, the central government has already issued 10 billion yuan in subsidy for the purchase of farm machinery and machinery, and has actually subsidized the purchase of 1.22 million farmer households, 6.16 billion yuan of funds, and 1.32 million farm machinery tools (sets). From January to April, the production of large and medium-sized tractors increased by 50% and 33.2% respectively, and the crop harvesting machinery and on-site operating machinery increased by 33% and 25.8% respectively.
Investment accelerated the production of some special equipment. From January to April, investment in chemical raw materials and products, printing, and railway transportation increased by 34.1%, 29.8%, and 94.2%, respectively, in urban fixed assets investment. Driven by the substantial investment growth, output of special equipment for refining and chemical production increased by 25.6% year-on-year, production of special equipment for printing increased by 21.9%, and output of railway passenger cars increased by 1.68 times.
The situation of production and sales of construction machinery improved. In the first quarter, 24,027 excavators and 31,375 loaders were sold, of which 13,314 and 16,792 were sold in March, accounting for more than half of the sales in the first quarter. Sales of bulldozers and cranes were more than 2,000 and 7,000, respectively. Sales of more than 800 Taiwan and more than 3,000 Taiwan. In April, the daily output of cranes increased by 4.1% from March, and loaders, conveyors, excavators, and compaction machines increased by 12.6%-50.6%.
The output of machine tools has fallen sharply. From January to April, the output of metal cutting machine tools and metal forming machine tools decreased by 20.5% and 20.2%, respectively, of which CNC metal cutting machine tools and CNC metal forming machine tools decreased by 18.7% and 8.3% respectively. From April production, although output of metal cutting machine tools and forming machine tools fell by 21% and 34% year-on-year, on an average daily basis, monthly production increased by 5.1% and 17.7% respectively from March.
From January to April, the added value of the equipment industry (including automobiles and ships) increased by 7.3% year-on-year, of which the general equipment, special equipment, transportation equipment, electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing industries increased by 6.4%, 11.8%, 4.9%, and 9.8% respectively. . Among them, in the third and fourth months, the value-added of the equipment industry increased by 10.1% and 9.7% respectively year-on-year, both higher than the first two months. In April, the production and sales rate reached 97.7%, 1.2% higher than the first quarter.