Due to historical reasons for the formation of closed, "big and complete" enterprise features, most enterprises in China are equipped with mold workshop, in factory matching status since the late 70s have a mold the concept of industrialization and specialization of production. Production efficiency is not high, poor economic returns. Mold production industry is small and scattered, cross-industry, capital-intensive, professional, commercial and technical management level are relatively low.
According to incomplete statistics, there are now specialized in manufacturing mold, the product supporting mold factory workshop (factory) near 17 000, about 600 000 employees, annual output value reached 20 billion yuan mold. However, the existing capacity of the mold and die industry can only meet the demand of 60%, still can not meet the needs of national economic development. At present, the domestic needs of large, sophisticated, complex and long life of the mold also rely mainly


由于歷史原因形成的封閉式、“大而全”的企業(yè)特征，我國大部分企業(yè)均設(shè)有模具車間，處于本廠的配套地位，自70年代末才有了模具工業(yè)化和生產(chǎn)專業(yè)化這個概念。生產(chǎn)效率不高，經(jīng)濟效益較差。模具行業(yè)的生產(chǎn)小而散亂，跨行業(yè)、投資密集，專業(yè)化、商品化和技術(shù)管理水平都比較低。
據(jù)不完全統(tǒng)計，全國現(xiàn)有模具專業(yè)生產(chǎn)廠、產(chǎn)品廠配套的模具車間（分廠）近17000家，約60萬從業(yè)人員，年模具總產(chǎn)值達(dá)200億元人民幣。但是，我國模具工業(yè)現(xiàn)有能力只能滿足需求量的60％左右，還不能適應(yīng)國民經(jīng)濟發(fā)展的需要。目前，國內(nèi)需要的大型、精密、復(fù)雜和長壽命的模具還主要依靠進(jìn)口。據(jù)海關(guān)統(tǒng)計，1997年進(jìn)口模具價值6.3億美元，這還不包括隨設(shè)備一起進(jìn)口的模具；1997年出口模具僅為7800萬美元。目前我國模具工業(yè)的技術(shù)水平和制造能力，是我國國民經(jīng)濟建設(shè)中的薄弱環(huán)節(jié)和制約經(jīng)濟持續(xù)發(fā)展的瓶頸。