According to statistics compiled by China Construction Machinery Association, the number of loaders for various types of vehicles in 2017 is 97610 units (including exports), an increase of 30,235 units or 44.88% from the same period of last year. Among them, in December 2017 a total of 8,278 loader sales, an increase of 49.88%. In 2017, the average monthly sales of loaders in more than 8,000 units.
This is the first time since 2014 that loader sales have achieved positive growth and surpassed expectations of 85,000 units sold last year. The annual sales volume approached 100,000.

 
Data show that 2015 saw the largest decline in loader sales. In 2016, sales of 67.375 loaders hit the bottom (from 2011 onwards), less than 30% of total sales in 2011. Starting from October 2016, loader sales began to rebound, establishing a recovery trend. The company is located in:
Looking at the trend of loader sales in 2017, it is not difficult to find that year-on-year increases have been achieved in all other months, except for a 20.1% YoY decline in March, with the increase of 110.3% in February and a high growth since April.

Specific to the model, in 2017 5 tons of loaders sold 61455 units, an increase of 44.98%, accounting for 62.96% of total sales; 3 tons of models sold 20969 units, an increase of 44.75%, accounting for 21.48% of the total sales; 3 tons The following small loader sales 8,152 units, an increase of 26.58%, 8.35% of total sales.

In 2017, the cumulative export volume of various types of loaders was 19,559 units, accounting for 20% of the total sales volume, an increase of 38.46% over the 14,126 units in the same period of 2016. For the first time in five years, the export growth was positive with an average monthly increase of 35%.
In 2017, loader export models are still mainly 5t and 3t, with 9,523 and 6,746 respectively, accounting for 83.18% of the total. In addition, large, digging, skidding and ZL40 models in the export performance is more eye-catching, sales accounted for more than half of the total exports, of which 73.74% of large loaders sold overseas.
In contrast, in the domestic market in 2017 loader cumulative sales of 78051 units, compared with the same period in 2016 (53,249 units) increased 46.58%. In terms of geographical distribution, Shandong Province still tops sales of 4,799 units in 2017, followed by Henan, Hebei, Yunnan and Jiangsu in the top five sales.
 
Throughout the development of the loader market in recent years, it is not difficult to see that in 2017 the loader market has really started to rebound, achieving restorative growth and entering a new round of growth cycle. In the future, with the continued striving of national infrastructure to boost demand, together with the PPP project, the "One Belt and One Road" will be launched in depth and the construction machinery itself will continue to generate new demand. The loader market will surely achieve further growth. However, it may take a long time to recover to historic highs.