According to the molding material, the mold can be divided into metal molds and metallic molds, which are mainly metal mold casting molds and stamping dies, plastic molds are mainly non-metallic mold. Plastic molds and stamping dies are the main varieties of mold, in 2010 the market size reached 63 billion, respectively, and 52 billion, respectively, accounting for 45% of the mold industry and 37%. Plastic molds mainly used for plastic molding products, mainly used in metal stamping die cold forming materials.

Since 2000, benefiting from the downstream automotive, electronics, plastics industry's rapid development, China's mold industry has made great strides. Aluminum mold industry, industry revenue of 14 billion yuan from 2003 to 2010, rapid growth of 140 billion yuan, an increase of 10 times in 8 years, the average annual growth rate of more than 28%. Just make the financial crisis slowed to 12.5 percent industry growth rate is still far higher than the GDP growth rate, showing that China's mold industry development momentum is very strong.

According to the International Association Secretary-General Luo Baihui mold, mold production tooling industry chain is the last part is the most directly associated with the downstream sector of a ring. Benefit from the downstream demand increases, in 2010 China's mold industry revenue reached 140 billion yuan, an increase of 28%. In addition, in 2010 China imported about $ 2 billion of the mold, almost all of these molds to large, sophisticated, complex, long-life high-tech as the main representative of the mold, this part of the mold more than 40% foreign dependency. You can see that in the past five years the amount of imported mold is very stable, shows that China's demand for high-tech mold is very rigid. Meanwhile, as China's mold production to enhance the competitiveness of China's mold exports accelerated rise in export volumes in 1999 was only 1.3 billion U.S. dollars, in 2010 reached $ 2.2 billion, an average annual compound growth rate of 29%.

2010, China's mold industry surplus of $ 130 million for the first time. The next period of time, export growth continued to outpace import growth, trade surplus will continue to expand the scale.

Broad support mold downstream demand, competitive products consumerization of the mold. As the production of standard mold parts products upstream of its properties similar to capital goods, a one-time purchase can support the long-term use. Therefore, the mold industry has a great value amplification effect, the mold industry and downstream parts industry output ratio can reach the level of 1:100. Luo Baihui that mold in the production process has a crucial role, a model of the car need to die more than 4000 sets of 300 sets of large cover mold; single mold 350 refrigerators need to pay, worth 4 million yuan; single washing machine mold parts required 500, to be paid die 200, worth 20 million yuan -3000 million; well as notebook computers, communications equipment, building materials drains, steel doors, instrumentation and so the industry needs a lot of die support. An industry to implement mass production, we must help the mold, so the mold has broad support downstream industries, demand is very huge.