With the development of economy, the industry competition is becoming more and more fierce. Insiders pointed out that at present, the mold industry presents five business characteristics, single piece customized production mode and obvious product differentiation; The average sales of mold manufacturing enterprises are low; There is still a big gap in the technical level of the industry compared with developed countries; High regional concentration; The contradiction between domestic production and demand of high-grade mold products is prominent.

The single piece customized production mode has obvious product differentiation. The injection mold is a special process equipment. Each set of products is designed for a specific plastic product. When accepting orders every time, plastic mold manufacturers need to design and manufacture according to the technical data provided by customers, that is to say, most plastic molds are unique, have obvious differentiation characteristics, have high requirements for technical level, and belong to typical one-piece customized production.

The average sales of mold manufacturing enterprises are low. The injection mold industry does not belong to the standardized industry. The essence of mold lies in the rationality of design ideas and mold structure. It belongs to an industry with high innovation, high technology content, high precision and high added value. Plastic mold is a highly personalized customized product. Different plastic molds have obvious differences.

Therefore, plastic molds are mainly made to order. Moreover, the service life of plastic molds is long, and the number of plastic products produced by a set of molds is more than hundreds of thousands. Therefore, the downstream manufacturing enterprises have less demand for mold products, resulting in lower sales of mold enterprises. According to the data of China mold industry association, there were about 20000 plastic mold manufacturing enterprises (factories and points) in China in 2011. According to the total sales of plastic mold industry of about 56 billion yuan in 2011, the average annual sales of plastic molds of enterprises in the industry is no more than 3 million yuan, the average production capacity scale is small, and the industry concentration is not high.

Compared with developed countries, there is still a large gap in the technical level of the industry. In recent years, China's mold industry has gradually changed from the extensive workshop operation with fitter as the core to the intensive modern operation based on technology and centered on design, and the technical level of the industry has been significantly improved.

The regional concentration is high, and the development of the mold industry needs certain upstream and downstream industry support, especially the close connection with the downstream manufacturing industry. Mold products are intermediate products, and the main customers are downstream end product manufacturers of manufacturing industry. Therefore, China's injection mold enterprises are mainly distributed in manufacturing developed areas such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. Among them, the plastic mold industry in Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shandong is relatively developed, accounting for most of the output value of China's plastic mold industry.

The contradiction between domestic production and demand of high-grade mold products is prominent. Due to the large gap between China's injection mold and the world's advanced level in terms of quantity, quality and technical capacity, the products are mainly concentrated in the medium and low-grade mold market, resulting in the continuous growth of the import of plastic mold products required in China in recent years. Although China's plastic mold industry has maintained the pattern of import and export surplus on the whole, the large, precision, complex and long-life high-grade mold products required in China still need to be imported every year, which has a certain adverse impact on the long-term development of China's automobile, home appliance and other host industries.