According to customs data, in October 2023, China's import and export trade volume of construction machinery was 3.898 billion US dollars, down 5.53% year-on-year. Among them, the amount of imports in October was 175 million US dollars, down 4.6% year-on-year; The export value in October was 3.723 billion US dollars, down 5.57% year on year. The volume of import and export from January to October was 42.936 billion US dollars, up 10.6% year-on-year. Among them, the cumulative import of 2.119 billion US dollars, down 8.26%; Total exports reached 40.817 billion US dollars, up 11.8% year on year.

In terms of exports denominated in RMB, exports in October were 26.754 billion yuan, down 1.49% year on year; The cumulative export volume from January to October was 285.975 billion yuan, up 19% year-on-year.

Compared with developed countries such as Europe and the United States, China's aerial work platform industry started late, but China's construction and manufacturing markets are huge, stimulating the rapid development of China's aerial work platform industry, aerial work platform has become one of the rare "blue ocean market" in China's construction machinery sub-industry, and the output of China's aerial work platform is about 251,900 units in 2022. The number of units is about 519,000 units, and the sales volume is 187,100 units, of which, the shear fork aerial working platform accounts for about 64.8%, and the arm aerial working platform accounts for about 26.7%. While meeting domestic demand, some products are also exported to foreign markets in large quantities.