March 30, the European Union increased its investment in the 'Digital Europe 2025-2027' plan, allocating 1.3 billion euros to deploy key technologies of strategic significance to Europe's technological sovereignty. Among this, 180 million euros will be invested in developing AI-driven cybersecurity technologies for numerical control systems to address post-quantum computing threats.

At midnight on April 2, 2025, the United States announced additional tariffs of 34% on Chinese goods imported into the U.S., bringing the total tariff rate to 54%! China immediately responded by imposing additional tariffs of 34% on all imported goods originally from the U.S., on top of the currently applicable tariff rates! The U.S. continued its export controls against China, with 52 Chinese technology companies added to the Entity List, involving fields such as CNC machine tools.

CMTBA released first-quarter 2025 data, showing an 8.5% year-on-year growth in industry output value, with a 15.5% growth rate in CNC machine tool output value. The market size of five-axis machine tools exceeded 1.3 billion yuan. Demand has surged in fields such as new energy vehicles and aerospace. Expansion by BYD and CATL has driven a 90% growth in orders for high-precision processing equipment. At the policy level, the 'Made in China 2025' initiative continues to be strengthened, with Zhejiang Province setting a target of breaking through 150 billion yuan in machine tool output value by 2027.

Huazhong CNC's independently developed new generation AI numerical control system, 'Huazhong 9', has now integrated Deepseek large model technology. It can achieve functions such as process optimization and healthcare in equipment like intelligent five-axis machining centers and camshaft grinders. It recently won the Second Prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress. Currently, Huazhong CNC's high-end five-axis CNC orders are backlogged until May, with 10 production lines operating at full capacity.

Recently, Japan's Sodick completed the acquisition of Italy's Prima Additive, strengthening synergies in metal AM technology and improving solutions in medical and aerospace fields.

The Additive Manufacturing Alliance of China（AMAC) released its 2025 work plan, proposing to deepen applications in aerospace, nuclear energy, and other fields, and promote the R&D of domestically produced ultra-large-scale AM equipment. Shanghai Jiao Tong University has achieved high-quality additive manufacturing of pure copper components, and bioprinting skin technology has been promoted to military wound treatment.

CIMT 2025 (Beijing International Machine Tool Show) will be held from April 21 to 26. With the theme of 'Integration and Innovation, Digital and Intelligent Future', the total exhibition area will be 310,000 square meters, featuring participation from over 2,400 exhibitors covering CNC machine tools, tools, additive manufacturing, and other areas.