According to relevant regulations, from December 1, 2022, all diesel engines produced, imported and sold under 560kW of non-road mobile machinery and machinery installed should meet the requirements of the fourth stage emission standards.
National IV arrived as scheduled. Are everyone ready?
In fact, whether it is ready or not, the National IV of China has arrived and will not change or change.
is different from the National III upgrade to National III adopting the distributed implementation strategy, which is that the National IV upgrade adopts a "one-size-fits-all" strategy, that is, all production, import and sales behaviors of non-National IV agricultural machinery are not allowed.
Although after the official switch to the National IV, the National III machine can also be circulated in the market through reasonable operations as a second mobile phone or by leasing. But just like when the country was promoted to the country 3, it is inevitable that the country 3 machine will gradually withdraw from the market.
Many industry experts have said that the upgrade of the National IV is not only an emission upgrade, but also an industrial upgrade of the agricultural machinery industry. So what attitude do all parties have at a new starting point?
Enterprises are ready to go
Every emission upgrade is an industry reshuffle, this is true when the country is second to national third, and the country is fourth to upgrade.
benchmarks the development trajectory and growth route of the foreign agricultural machinery industry. With the upgrading of emission standards and industries, further gathering of industry resources to large enterprises and powerful enterprises will become an inevitable trend in the development of my country's agricultural machinery industry.
Faced with this National IV upgrade, those large enterprises with strength and strong R&D capabilities have begun to lay out the reserves and research and development of related technologies very early. China has started the development of the National IV new products since 2015, and it has been 7 years since then. Weichai Leiwo Smart Agriculture has also gone through more than 45,000 hours of research and development and verification in five years. For those small companies that lack core technologies and R&D capabilities, the upgrade of the National IV will be a "demonstration disaster".
At present, many companies have announced that their production lines have officially begun the production of new products in the National IV, such as China Yituo, Weichai Leiwo Smart Agriculture, Changzhou Dongfeng, Wode Agricultural Machinery and other leading companies.
In addition to product hardware upgrades, after-sales service, an "soft power" upgrade that occupies an important position in the agricultural machinery industry is also indispensable. At present, many companies are also intensively providing training for their relevant technical personnel in this regard.
At the same time, facing the cost increase caused by the upgrading of National IV technology. During the visit, the reporter learned that many companies are also working hard to make up for the overall cost increase caused by technological upgrades by compressing other costs.
In general, in the face of the National IV, all agricultural machinery enterprises are ready to go, and has made sufficient preparations in product , technology, market, services, etc. to welcome the arrival of the sales season next year. However, the performance of each product still needs to be inspected in the next year's market and operating season.
Users are full of entanglements
For users, the primary question when facing the upgrading of National III is how much pollution in agricultural machinery accounts for in the entire non-road machinery, and whether there is really a need to upgrade.
We have also done a series of analysis before to address this question, and I will not go into details here.
Secondly, how is the performance of the upgraded National IV product? Is it easy to use? This is also the issue that users care about the most.
During the visit to users, the reporter learned that in the first operating season after the launch of the National IV product, many users still have a wait-and-see attitude and do not want to be the "first person to take the lead." The user's psychology is to first check the usage effect of the people around you, and if it is good, then "take action", otherwise you will wait and see.
In the opinion of the reporter, for users with actual and useful needs, both good and bad must be experienced by themselves before they can have a real say. After all, "there are a hundred Hamlets in the eyes of a hundred people."
The third is that the National IV products have made extensive use of technologies such as electronic control and hydraulics, and complex systems have put forward higher requirements for maintenance services. Users are worried that after the National IV machine fails after they have obtained it, they will no longer be able to solve the same simple mechanical problems as before. They must wait for professional maintenance personnel to arrive on site, which invisibly increases the cost of using the machine and delays working time.
Faced with this problem, the reporter believes that this is something that needs to be faced in any industry's technological upgrade. Enterprises are making relevant training preparations, and users also need to be prepared. Everything needs to be truly adjusted.
policy is gradually improved
Before the arrival of National IV, would there be additional subsidies for National IV agricultural machinery, the time limit for the subsidy for National IV agricultural machinery, etc. There are many questions from companies and users.
Currently, with the official implementation of National IV emission standard , each province has given a clear timetable for the processing time limit for the country's third-tier agricultural machinery subsidies. At the same time, subsidy standards for tractors, combine harvesters and corn harvesters have been given in Beijing, Shandong and other places.
For the processing time limit for the country's agricultural machinery subsidy subsidy, the deadline for subsidy application issued by various places is not the same. The earliest ones were Ningbo and Sichuan. As of December 31, 2022, you cannot apply for the National Agricultural Machinery Subsidy Subsidy in most provinces; while the application for the National Agricultural Machinery Subsidy Subsidy in most provinces is till May 31, 2023; the latest ones are the deadline for the subsidy processing of Xinjiang, Qinghai and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps is June 30, 2023.
Timetable for processing subsidies for national agricultural machinery in various provinces
summary
The wheel of history rolls forward. No matter how many controversies and doubts there were before, the National IV will finally arrive as scheduled.
Faced with the industry pain brought by this industrial upgrading, whether it is a company or a user, it needs to learn and run-in.
