Investment is booming, and the import of capital equipment has grown for five consecutive years (file photo)

[Reporter Zheng Qifang/Taipei Report] Despite the impact of the US-China trade war and the COVID-19 epidemic in recent years, my country's capital equipment imports have continued to grow for five consecutive years, from US$40.6 billion in 2017 to a new high of US$75.3 billion in 2022, compared with 2017 The year-on-year increase was 85.6%. Among them, semiconductor equipment contributed US$20.3 billion, which was the biggest driving force for the growth of capital equipment. The proportion also increased sharply by 8.8 percentage points to 48.3%, and it reached 50.3% in the first two months of this year.

Looking at the structure of capital equipment types, machinery (mainly for the production of semiconductors and other machines) and electrical equipment increased by 2.3 and 1 percentage points respectively, while the rest decreased. The increase in the input of electrical equipment is mainly due to the government's efforts in the construction of green energy facilities in recent years. , Pushing up the demand for wind turbine imports.

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In 2022, my country's capital equipment imports will be dominated by mechanical equipment, followed by precision equipment, which will account for nearly 20%. The source of imports will be Japan, which accounts for 19.4%. The United States, China and the Netherlands accounted for 18.3%, 16.1% and 11.9% respectively, and the four major regions together accounted for 66%.

According to the Ministry of Finance, with the intensification of global chip manufacturing competition, domestic manufacturers have strong demand for process improvement and production expansion. Among the machinery and precision equipment, the proportion of semiconductor manufacturing, measurement, and inspection related equipment is as high as 60%. Imports from the Netherlands, the United States, and Japan are relatively Among them, the scanning and alignment machines purchased from the Netherlands accounted for 20%, pushing the Netherlands to account for 23.4% of China's imports of semiconductor equipment and ranking first; the imports of information and electrical equipment are mainly from China, each accounting for about 50%. The main goods include Routers, servers, converters, power supplies, etc.; transportation equipment mainly purchased aircraft from Germany and the United States, and purchased railway passenger cars from Japan.

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