Future Construction Machinery Industry, Dual Wheel Drive, "Start Well"

Release date 2026-03-08 15:49:30 Reading 18

used excavator Digging Gold, Global Green Action, Future Construction Machinery Industry, Dual Wheel Drive, "Start Well"

The beginning of the Chinese New Year brings renewal to all things. As infrastructure construction sites across the country resume work and production, the sound of machines roaring forward echoes twice throughout the country. From the vast fields of farmland consolidation sites, to the busy loading and unloading areas of ports, to the frontline of western infrastructure construction, various types of construction machinery take turns to operate at full capacity. At the beginning of the new year, the Chinese construction machinery industry lived up to expectations and delivered a mature and colorful "opening" answer sheet.

According to statistics from major manufacturers of excavators and loaders in China, the sales volume of excavators in January 2026 was 18708 units, a year-on-year increase of 50%; Among them, the domestic sales volume was 8723 units, a year-on-year increase of 61.39%, and the export sales volume was 9985 units, a year-on-year increase of 50%. The sales volume of loaders was 11759 units, a year-on-year increase of 4.7%; Among them, the domestic sales volume was 5293 units, a year-on-year increase of 42.82%, and the export sales volume was 6466 units, a year-on-year increase of 0.44%. The sales of electric loaders reached 2990 units, a year-on-year increase of 175.32%, with a penetration rate of 25.43%.

With a penetration rate of over 25% in electrification, over half of exports, and nearly 50% of sales growing rapidly, these three key data points do not reflect a simple industry cycle, but vividly demonstrate that China's construction machinery industry has officially surpassed and entered a new stage of "electrification+globalization" dual wheel drive. Globalization has solved the problem of "upward space" in the industry, and Chinese construction machinery has fully participated in global market competition. The overseas market has jumped from "supplementary increase volume" to "main increase volume", effectively responding to the impact used excavator of domestic market fluctuations and opening up vast horizons for industry development; Complementing globalization, electrification sets the core of "development quality" and promotes the industry to bid farewell to traditional models of high energy consumption and high emissions, and move towards a new track of green, intelligent, and efficient development. It has also become a differentiated advantage for China's construction machinery to participate in global competition.

Deepening globalization and making overseas the first growth engine

In January 2026 industry data, overseas markets performed even better: the export volume of excavators was close to 10000 units, and the export volume of loaders was 6466 units, a year-on-year increase of 0.4%. The rapid increase in exports led the industry as a whole, fully demonstrating China's core competitiveness in the global market for construction machinery. Like now, globalization has shifted from being an "optional item" for industry development to a "must answer question", becoming the primary growth engine driving industry recovery.

At the beginning of 2026, there will be frequent good news of China's construction machinery going abroad: Shandong Lingong has successfully delivered eight large excavators of 40 Yongle level or above and one roller customized for key Malaysian clients to the construction site; Hundreds of Xu Engineering's Zhongda Yongle excavators and loaders with an order value exceeding 100 million yuan have successively gone to the front line of overseas mines, providing strong equipment support for the development and production capacity of global mining resources

used excavator The continuous deepening of globalization layout has made used excavator overseas markets the "ballast stone" for stable industry growth. In recent years, Chinese construction machinery enterprises have upgraded from simply exporting products to localizing the entire chain of research and development, production, sales, and service operations, gradually breaking down barriers in overseas markets and continuously enhancing global competitiveness. Previously, emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa became a solid foundation for exports due to their strong infrastructure demand; In the high-end markets of Europe and America, Chinese companies are gradually breaking the long-term monopoly pattern of foreign brands by relying on their advantages in electrification and intelligent technology.

At the end of January, three groups launched the Dubai supply center, covering 72 countries and regions in the Middle East and Africa. Through a regional delivery model of "reaching near customers", the delivery cycle of parts has been increased by 35%. At the same time, the regional host scheduling function has been continuously optimized to improve transportation and delivery efficiency. In 2025, LiuGong will continue to increase its overseas business layout, adding six overseas subsidiaries including Nigeria, Italy, Peru, etc. The second phase of the Indian manufacturing plant project will steadily advance, the full value chain layout in Indonesia will gradually be implemented, and the prototype of the KD project in Kazakhstan will be assembled locally. This series of layouts has driven the company's overseas business revenue to increase by over 10% year-on-year, and the proportion of overseas business has increased to about 47%, becoming the 'ballast stone' for the company's performance growth, "said the relevant person in charge of Guangxi Liugong Machinery Co., Ltd.

Behind the deepening of globalization is the comprehensive maturity of China's construction machinery industry chain. From core components to complete machine manufacturing, from technology research and development to after-sales service, Chinese enterprises have established a complete engineering machinery industry chain system. In 2025, the localization of core components in construction machinery will move from "single point breakthrough" to "system integration". Shandong Heavy Industry's high-end hydraulic system, CVT gearbox and other "bottleneck" technologies will be successfully overcome, and the performance of the slow engineering XES energy management system will surpass similar international products.

The industrial cluster effect continues to highlight, and the proportion of output value in construction machinery industry bases such as Hunan, Jiangsu, and Shandong has steadily increased. The collaborative research and development cycle between host factories and component enterprises has been significantly shortened, and logistics costs have been effectively reduced. The collaborative overseas model is accelerating its implementation. Dr. Xu has joined forces with twelve component companies to share overseas warehousing and service networks, and the overseas orders of supporting enterprises have increased by about 40% year-on-year, forming a good ecosystem of "whole machine+components" collaborative overseas.

used excavator The turning point of electrification has reached the comprehensive acceleration of industrial ecological construction

If globalization is the growth engine of the construction machinery industry, electrification is the core core of industrial transformation and upgrading. In January 2026, the electrification rate of loaders exceeded 25%, a milestone data that marks the comprehensive acceleration of the "oil to electricity" process in China's construction machinery industry. With the continuous expansion of downstream applications of electric loaders, the economic benefits of the products have been widely recognized in the market, and the trend towards electrification in the industry has become so clear, "said Shang Jian, an analyst at Donghai Securities, as recorded in the China Industry Report.

used excavator Specifically, the rapid advancement of electrification transformation is supported by the collaborative efforts of policy, market, and technology. At the policy level, the country's large-scale equipment updates, non road mobile machinery emission standards upgrades and other policies have been implemented, and various regions have simultaneously introduced supporting measures such as subsidies for the purchase of electric equipment and incentives for the retirement of old fuel, to safeguard the transformation towards electrification; At the market level, electric construction machinery has outstanding advantages in the full life cycle cost, with usage costs far lower than combustion oil models, shortened cost recovery cycles, and irreplaceable advantages in zero emissions and low noise in closed scenarios. It has successfully become the preferred choice for customers; At the technical level, domestic enterprises have achieved control over core areas such as electric drive and battery integration, effectively solving industry pain points such as range and power. The product performance is relatively standard or even surpasses that of fuel powered models.

From a segmented perspective, loaders have become the vanguard of electrification. An electric loader sold nearly 3000 units, a year-on-year increase of 175.32%, with a penetration rate of. 43%, making it the product with the highest electrification rate among all categories of construction machinery. The synchronous acceleration of electric excavators, although the base is relatively low, sold 24 units in January, a year-on-year increase of over 90%, gradually promoted and applied in mining, municipal and other scenarios. Electric mixer trucks, electric high-altitude work machinery, electric mining trucks and other products are blooming in multiple places, and through the development pattern of "point to surface and comprehensive promotion" of electrification.

Electrification not only rewrites the source of mobility, but also further promotes theused excavator upgrading of construction machinery towards intelligence and networked integration. Electric platforms are naturally adapted to intelligent control, remote operation control, unmanned driving and other technologies. Currently, multiple mines and ports in China have achieved unmanned driving of electric engineering machinery, increasing labor efficiency by more than 30%, significantly reducing labor costs, and significantly reducing safety hazards.

used excavator In addition, carbon emission requirements and environmental policies in Europe and America are becoming increasingly strict. Europe plans to completely ban the sale of fuel engineering machinery products by 2035, which will further accelerate the global penetration of electrified products. According to Sullivan's data, in 2024, the global and Chinese sales of electrified construction machinery products will be approximately $100 million and $100 million respectively, with electrification rates of about 1.50% and 7.90%, respectively. The future market space is broad, "said Shao Wei, an analyst at Dongguan Securities.

Internal resilience is needed to highlight the update cycle and strengthen the foundation of infrastructure development

Xuzhou Construction Machinery stated in a recent institutional survey that the domestic construction machinery market is releasing positive signals, especially as the sales of earth and stone machinery have turned positive for several consecutive months. Over the long term, the national "two-step" strategy has been deeply promoted, and the investment space, natural equipment renewal demand, new energy industry driving force, and growth potential in segmented fields brought about by the uneven development of urbanization have injected momentum into the recovery of the industry; Combined with the effectiveness of major project implementation, it is expected that the sales market will continue to recover within 2026, and the industry will have a fifteen step upward operating cycle.

The core driving force for the recovery of domestic demand comes from the concentrated release of equipment update cycles. A few years ago, construction machinery experienced a peak in sales, and according to the conventional depreciation cycle, used excavator a large number of old equipment will enter the mandatory renewal period in 2026. The service life of excavators is about eight years, and the previous sales peak was concentrated from 2019 to 2022. "Business analysis shows that the government continues to promote the implementation of subsidies for the elimination of old defenses, stimulate the early release of downstream demand for updates, and excavator demand has entered a rational growth period.

used excavator The concentrated implementation of major infrastructure and livelihood projects is another key force driving domestic demand. In 2026, the No. 1 central document clearly recommended the construction of high standard farmland, water conservancy and flood control system. Shang Jian believes that in the future, used excavator domestic projects such as non-ferrous mines, major water conservancy projects, Xinjiang Tibet Railway, and high standard farmland will gradually be implemented, continuously releasing demand dividends and helping the domestic construction machinery market demand recover.

The continuous development of fiscal policy is a safeguard for the recovery of domestic demand. Accelerate the issuance of new special bonds, with a focus on supporting the construction of infrastructure projects; Small and micro enterprises in China are equipped with updated policies such as loan subsidies and green finance to reduce customer purchasing costs, alleviate financial pressure on construction companies, and effectively activate market demand. From the perspective of industry operation, the core operating rate of construction machinery products remained high in January, and the utilization rate of equipment continued to rise, confirming the strong demand for downstream construction. The industry recovery has achieved substantial transmission from "sales growth" to "start-up recovery".

At the same time, the domestic demand structure continues to optimize. The pattern of over reliance on the real estate industry in the past has gradually changed, used excavator with used excavator infrastructure, mining, agriculture, and new energy becoming the core demand supports for the domestic market. The collaborative development of diverse application scenarios enhances the resilience of domestic market demand, and forms a positive response with the strong performance of overseas markets and the accelerated promotion of electrification transformation, jointly promoting the all-round and high-quality recovery of China's construction machinery industry.

Previous: How are Chinese construction machinery companies performing in overseas markets

Next: Seventy years of arduous struggle, two cycles leading the way in the world

High quality and low price

We guarantee the quality of each machine and promise
to offer you the most favorable price.

Future Construction Machinery Industry, Dual Wheel Drive, "Start Well"

High quality and low price

We guarantee the quality of each machine and promise to offer you the most favorable price.

Future Construction Machinery Industry, Dual Wheel Drive, "Start Well"

We guarantee the quality of each machine and promise
to offer you the most favorable price.