By the end of the "Tenth Five-Year Plan", China has accomplished fruitful achievement in mass-production of bearing, realizing the objectives of the bearing industry in 2003 two years ahead of schedule. In 2004, China ranked fourth worldwide in sales volume of bearing, only behind Japan, Germany and Sweden. However, considering the low proportion of high-precision, high-tech and high value-added products, China lags far behind the industrial powers in bearing manufacturing. As a result, China has to import high-quality bearing to meet the great demand of the domestic market. Foreign exchange expenditure for bearing importation reached 490million dollars, 648 million dollars, 879million dollars and 1.125 billion dollars respectively in 2001-2004, increasing by 33.94% annually.

At present, the demand of China bearing industry is mainly driven by the development of major machinery industries and the demand of exportation.

There is a huge market potential in China's bearing industry, with the rapid development of domestic major machinery industries providing vast space for the development of China bearing industry

In 2004, machinery industry maintained a rapid momentum and significant increases have taken place in the industries of engineering machinery, heavy & mining machinery, agricultural machinery, instrument and apparatus, machine tool and others. The increase rate reached above 28% in some industries. In the first part of 2005, the added value of machinery industry increased by 27.3% over the same period last year. An average increase of over 50% occurred to computer controlled machine tools, forklift trucks, earth-moving machinery, power equipment, metallurgy equipment and metal rolling equipment. Export volume of machinery increased by 46% over the same period last year, which further stimulated the demand of the bearing market. Besides, with many state engineering projects such as the project of natural gas diversion from the western to the eastern region, South-to-North water diversion project, the Yangtze Three Gorges project (TGP), 2008Beijing Olympic Games and Shanghai World Exposition 2010, there will be great demand for mechanical and electrical bearing, which will further accelerates the development of the bearing market.

China has great demand for bearing exportation with promising prospects. There were 1.2403699 billion sets of bearing exported in January-June of 2005, increasing by 18.05% compared to the same period last year. Bearing spare parts and ball bearing exported reached 25704.32 tons and 20976.77 tons respectively. Foreign exchange income added up to 694.2627 million dollars, increasing by 38.01% compared to the same period last year. Favorable balance of exportation reached 66.3962 million dollars.

Currently, there are nearly 2,000 bearing-manufacturing enterprises, in which there are 900 with sales revenue of 5 million RMB, ranking first worldwide in quantity. But most of them are small-sized, with low competitiveness and low risk resistance capacity. The output of five major domestic bearing-manufacturing enterprises only account for 20% of the total in China, while in Germany the three major bearing companies accounted for 90% of the total. The figures for the four major Japanese enterprises and four American enterprises are 88% and 56% respectively. The huge gap between Chinese bearing enterprises and foreign counterparts is obviously seen here. Under such circumstances, there are huge market risks in low-level redundant development and capacity expansion. Moreover, the rush of foreign investment into the bearing industry intensifies competition. China regards cluster development of the bearing industry (construction of enterprise group and "little giant"  enterprise) as a means of becoming a strong bearing-manufacturing power instead of only a big one. There will be a period of annexation and reorganization for bearing enterprises, during which there will be plenty of opportunities. So, it is of great importance to be familiar with the running trend of the bearing industry and find out how to seize market opportunities.

There are some uncertainties in the positive bearing market. The cost of raw materials is rising and there is a downright reorganization of the bearing industry. The report is made based on the data from State Statistical Bureau of China, China customs, China Machinery Industry Federation and China Bearing Industry Association (CBIA). The report is characterized by precise description and detailed data. The report forecasts the development of China bearing industry in 2006 on comprehensive in-depth analysis and points out opportunities and risks in the market. Within the framework of industrial economics and company strategies, the report is integrated with a variety of graphs, done with the latest statistical methods. The report can be used as reference for bearing enterprises to make reasonable strategies, institutions with an inclination to the bearing industry and individuals that wish rapid acquaintance with the running trends of the bearing market.

2 Analysis of operation situation of China's bearing industry in 2005
2.1 Evaluation of the overall operation
2.1.1 Analysis on indicators of the overall operation
2.1.2 Characteristics and existing problems
2.2 Analysis of production and distribution of the bearing industry
2.2.1 Analysis of production
2.2.2 Analysis of distribution
2.3 Analysis of importation and exportation
2.3.1 Import&export policies
2.3.2 Data analysis of import&export
2.3.3 Demand analysis of the export market
2.3.4 Export strategies of the bearing-manufacturing enterprises

3 Market structure and competition structure of the bearing market
3.1 Analysis of the industrial concentration
3.1.1 Analysis of regional concentration
3.1.2 Analysis of concentration of enterprises
3.2 Analysis of the product structure
3.2.1 Analysis of main products
3.2.2 Gap of product technologies between Chinese enterprises and foreign counterparts
3.2.3 Development trend of product technologies
3.3 Competitive behavior and performance analysis 
3.3.1 Competitive behavior
3.3.2 performance of the bearing industry

4 Analysis on business status of key bearing-manufacturing enterprises
4.1 Wazhou
4.1.1Overview of production and operation
4.1.2 Competition&development strategies
4.1.3 Financial analysis
4.2 XiangYang bearing
4.2.1 Overview of production and operation
4.2.2 Competition&development strategies
4.2.3 Financial analysis
4.3 Luoyang bearing
4.3.1 Overview of production and operation
4.3.2 Competition&development strategies
4.3.3 Financial analysis
4.4 Jinxi Axle
4.4.1 Overview of production and operation
4.4.2 Competition&development strategies
4.4.3 Financial analysis
4.5 Wanxiang Qianchao
4.5.1 Overview of production and operation
4.5.2 Competition&development strategies
4.5.3 Financial analysis
4.6 XiBei bearing
4.6.1 Overview of production and operation
4.6.2 Competition&development strategies
4.6.3 Financial analysis
4.7 Longxi bearing
4.7.1 Overview of production and operation
4.7.2 Competition&development strategies
4.7.3 Financial analysis

5 Analysis on focus issues of the bearing industry
5.1 Joint venture: seeking more benefits in multi-party game
5.1.1 Cases of joint venture
5.1.2 Implementation and evaluation of the strategy of exchanging market for technology
5.1.3 Strategic suggestions
5.2 Cluster development strategy
5.2.1 Implementation of cluster development strategy during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan"
5.2.2 Background of the cluster strategy
5.2.3 Current status of implementation and suggestions as reference
5.3  Brand construction
5.3.1 Being in the period of capacity expansion, deficiency of brand effect
5.3.2 Current situation of brand construction
5.3.3 Brand promotion strategy

6 Analysis on development environment of China bearing industry in year of 2005-2006
6.1 Key driving factors that influence the development of the bearing industry
6.2 Analysis of policy environment
6.2.1 Analysis of policy environment in year of 2005-2006
6.2.2 Orientation of State management policies during the eleventh Five-Year Plan
6.3 Analysis of economic environment
6.3.1 Forecast and analysis of economic operation in year of 2005-2006
6.3.2 Growth potential of the national economy during the eleventh Five-Year Plan
6.4 Analysis of social environment
6.4.1 Coherent development in Society and economy
6.4.2 Environmental protection
6.5 Analysis of technical environment
6.5.1 Development direction of bearing steel
6.5.2 Development trend of key bearing-manufacturing technologies home and abroad

7. Prediction of upstream and downstream industries about the bearing manufacturing in 2005-2006
7.1  Forecast and analysis of overall operation of the machinery industry
7.2 Bearing steel market
7.2.1Overall operation and development trend
7.2.2 Analysis on running trend of prices
7.3 Main Machine
7.3.1 Automotive
7.3.2 Motorcycle
7.3.3 Railway
7.3.4 Machine tool
7.3.5 Engineering machinery
7.3.6 Coal mining
7.3.7 Petroleum&chemicals
7.3.8 Home appliances

8  Forecast of the bearing market in the later part of 2005 and in the eleventh Five-Year Plan
8.1 Forecast of the demand&supply of the bearing market
8.1.forecast of total capacity
8.1.2 Prediction by classification and dimension
8.1.3 Demand forecast of main machine accessories and maintenance bearing
8.1.4 Demand forecast of exportation
8.2 Analysis of market potentials
8.2.1 Plastic bearing market
8.2.2 Precision bearing market
8.3 Suggestions for business operation
8.3.1 Fixed-assets investment on construction of key projects
8.3.2 Suggestions for key scientific research and development projects