一是普通铸件的生产能力过剩，但精密、高性能铸件的制造依然困难，需要进口。
First, the production capacity of ordinary castings is excessive, but the manufacturing of precision and high-performance castings is still difficult, and need to be imported.
二是铸造厂点和从业人员众多。
The two is the large number of foundries and practitioners.
目前全国共有铸造厂点2万多个、从业人员约120万，位居世界首位，但企业规模和技术、管理水平参差不齐。既形成了一定数量的工艺先进、装备精良、质量稳定、初步实现专业化规模化生产的铸造企业，但绝大多数铸造厂是中小企业，专业化程度和生产集中度低，低水平重复建设严重。
At present, there are more than 20,000 foundries and about 1.2 million employees in China, ranking first in the world, but the scale, technology and management level of enterprises are uneven. A certain number of foundry enterprises with advanced technology, sophisticated equipment, stable quality and preliminary realization of specialized large-scale production have been formed, but the vast majority of foundries are small and medium-sized enterprises with low degree of specialization and production concentration and serious low-level repetitive construction.
三是铸件市场主要以国内市场为主，铸件出口不到总产量的10％，且以中低档铸件为主，平均价格仅相当于国外铸件平均价格的一半。从20世纪90年代中后期开始，随着外资进入我国铸造业，在这些合资、独资企业的带动下，我国铸件出口形势看好，出口铸件档次提高，表现出较大的增长潜力。
Third, the castings Market is dominated by the domestic market. The export of castings is less than 10% of the total output, and the average price of medium and low-grade castings is only half of the average price of foreign castings. Since the mid and late 1990s, with the entry of foreign capital into China's foundry industry, driven by these joint ventures and wholly-owned enterprises, China's castings export situation is good, and the grade of export castings has improved, showing great growth potential.
四是铸造装备、技术、工艺与世界发达国家有一定的差距，但改造、更新的速度加快，引进、开发了一大批先进的铸造装备和技术。
Fourthly, there is a certain gap between the foundry equipment, technology and technology and the developed countries in the world, but the speed of transformation and renewal has been accelerated, and a large number of advanced foundry equipment and technology have been introduced and developed.
据业内人士估计，我国近年来引进大量自动造型生产线、树脂砂生产线、离心铸造设备、精炼设备以及各类制芯机、压铸机等先进铸造装备，总投资达到数十亿元。在工艺方面，经过多年研制和攻关，形成了我国自己的孕育剂、球化剂和蠕化剂系列，促进了铸铁件质量的提高；开发和推广了先进的冲天炉―电炉双联熔炼工艺，已经在批量生产中较广泛应用；精密铸造和压力铸造有了长足的进步，树脂砂制芯工艺在汽车、内燃机、拖拉机等行业铸件生产中普遍应用；计算机辅助设计和辅助分析以及先进的测试技术开始得到重视；铸造原辅材料从原砂、树脂砂到各种结合剂、涂料和铸造焦的系列化、规格化、商品化有较大进展，供应已基本立足于国内。
According to industry estimates, China has introduced a large number of automatic moulding production lines, resin sand production lines, centrifugal casting equipment, refining equipment and various core-making machines, die-casting machines and other advanced casting equipment in recent years, with a total investment of billions of yuan. In terms of technology, after years of research and development, China has formed its own series of inoculants, nodularizers and vermicularizers, which has promoted the improvement of cast iron quality; developed and popularized the advanced cupola-electric furnace double melting process, which has been widely used in batch production; and made considerable progress in precision casting and pressure casting. With the development of resin sand coring technology, it has been widely used in the production of castings in automobile, internal combustion engine, tractor and other industries; computer aided design and analysis and advanced testing technology have been paid attention to; the serialization, standardization and merchandising of raw and auxiliary materials for foundry from raw sand, resin sand to various binders, coatings and foundry coke Great progress has been made in the development of products. Supply is basically based on China.
五是我国铸造业的整体经济效益，无论是人均产量、人均产值，还是铸件质量、能源消耗，与国际先进水平相比，仍存在较大的差距，我国铸造业的平均劳动生产率不及铸造发达国家的五分之一。
Fifth, the overall economic benefits of China's foundry industry, whether per capita output, per capita output value, casting quality, energy consumption, compared with the international advanced level, there is still a big gap. The average labor productivity of China's foundry industry is less than one fifth of that of developed foundry countries.
至于开拓市场的能力和营销服务的水平，则差距更大。我国铸件之所以整体质量欠佳，铸件价格低，经济效益差，固然与相当多的小型铸造企业技术、装备、工艺落后有关，但更为关键的是，整个行业的管理水平尤其是质量意识和质量控制水平不适应激烈竞争的市场经济的要求。国内铸造企业的竞争，在相当程度上还停留在单纯价格竞争的水平，依靠竞相压价来抢占市场，结果造成铸件价格低、企业效益不好、技术改造投入不足、铸件质量差的恶性循环。
As for the ability to open up the market and the level of marketing services, the gap is even greater. The reason why the overall quality of castings in our country is not good, the price of castings is low and the economic benefit is poor is related to the backward technology, equipment and technology of quite a few small foundry enterprises, but more importantly, the management level of the whole industry, especially the quality consciousness and quality control level, can not meet the requirements of the fiercely competitive market economy. The competition of domestic foundry enterprises still stays at the level of pure price competition to a considerable extent, relying on competitive price reduction to seize the market, resulting in a vicious circle of low castings price, poor enterprise efficiency, inadequate investment in technological transformation and poor quality of castings.
六是与铸造业相关的服务体系，包括科研、培训、信息、标准等，虽已经基本建立，但仍难以适应快速发展的铸造市场的需要。
Sixth, the service system related to foundry industry, including scientific research, training, information and standards, has been basically established, but it is still difficult to meet the needs of the rapid development of foundry market.
主要表现为：铸造业的核心技术和关键装备仍然主要来自国外，自主开发和技术创新能力较差；铸造专业技术人才和高级技术工人短缺；铸件标准体系的完善以及与国际标准的接轨和检验认证工作，还有待进一步加强；面向中小铸造企业的服务体系，尤其是向中小铸造提供国际铸件市场信息、引导和扶持这些企业开拓国际市场、帮助这些企业应对可能出现的反倾销案和贸易壁垒的支撑体系，还基本上处于空白状态。
The main manifestations are as follows: the core technology and key equipment of foundry industry are still mainly from abroad, and the ability of independent development and technological innovation is poor; the shortage of professional foundry technicians and senior technical workers; the improvement of the standard system of castings and the conformity with international standards and the work of inspection and certification need to be further strengthened; The service system of small foundry enterprises, especially the support system of providing information on international casting market to small and medium foundries, guiding and supporting these enterprises to open up international market and helping them to cope with possible anti-dumping cases and trade barriers, is still basically in a blank state.