The total investment in the entire high-speed railway, the high-speed rail supporting the bearing capacity is not too large, but the Chinese domestic product gaps, enough to provide a broad market space for foreign giants.
According to incomplete statistics, nearly 80% of the bearings are produced by eight multinational companies, located in the United States, Japan, Europe, and China bearing companies registered about 6000, the top ten companies in total sales accounted for only bearing the full nearly 40% of the share trade, industry concentration is low.
February 6, 2009, the Japanese company NSK cooperation with China South Locomotive Group, Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed rail successfully signed 30 marshalling boxes, bearing orders.
March 2010, the Swedish SKF China Ministry of Railways announced on the basis of the original four-year contract to renew for four years.
October 2010, Japan NTN's largest production base in the territory settled in Nanjing, China, with an investment of $ 100 million, for the construction of high-speed railways, subways and wind power production base used in bearing.
SKF Huang, deputy general manager of China Railway Business Unit said: "Bearing in whole vehicle configuration, although only a small one, but the high-speed rail projects such products should not be any room for error that the main bearing reliability, safety is first. . "he also admitted that the Chinese market due to lack of high-speed rail bearing owned products, and foreign manufacturers to leave a larger space," enough to last until 2020. "