Mould, known as "the mother of industry," is developing in the technology and investment-intensive direction. In 2013, China’s mould investment reached RMB 1.00186 trillion, which is nearly three times of that in the previous year, and there were more than 20 projects each with an investment over RMB 200 million.

It’s estimated that China’s mould investment will exceed RMB 2.2 trillion in 2015, when the mould market scale will be further expanded, the output is expected to surpass 22.3 million sets, and the sales may exceed RMB 174 billion.

Meanwhile, China’s mould industry pattern is undergoing profound changes, the industry is expanding from developed Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta regions to inland and northern regions, and there have emerged some new mould production clusters such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Changsha, Chengdu-Chongqing, Wuhan, central Anhui, etc.

According to the statistics of National Bureau of Statistics of China, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing and central China accounted for 35.3% of China’s mould output in 2013, while the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta only produced 18.5%, a decrease of nearly 10 percentage points compared with that in 2011. 

(Source: researchinchina.com)