Mold is an important industrial base in the production process equipment, the "mother of industry" reputation. At present, China through the mold manufacturing (also known as the manufacture of materials) of about 80 million tons of metal products, and cutting manufacturing (by material manufacturing) the number of. About 70 million tons of plastic products and 600 million tons of rubber products, almost all of the mold forming manufacturing. At present, 3D printing (by material manufacturing) the total number of products for the tens of thousands of tons. Mold industry has become a measure of the level of a country's manufacturing industry an important symbol.

Recently, China Die & Mold Industry Association, the seventh session of the fifth meeting of the Council, China Die & Mold Industry Association executive vice president and secretary general Wu Bing Shu said that China's mold industry has been fully completed the "second Five Year Plan" proposed by the main aims. China's mold industry will continue to implement the project-driven and export-driven strategy, with the backbone of the industry as the backbone, deepening the reform, innovation-driven, scientific development, speed up the process of information technology and the pace of transformation and upgrading. Improve the mold production of information technology, standardization, automation technology application level, to promote enterprise management, technology, product quality, production efficiency and other aspects of significant progress.

"Thirteen Five" is China's economic shift and achieve a critical period of transformation and upgrading, but also to achieve the mold industry by the big turn to the important stage.