According to the monthly report of China Internal Combustion Engine Industry Sales issued by China Internal Combustion Engine Industry Association, the sales volume of internal combustion engines in April of this year decreased rapidly, and the diesel engine declined obviously; compared with the same period last year, the diesel engine declined slightly. As far as the sales of single-cylinder diesel engines for agricultural machinery are concerned, the sales of single-cylinder diesel engines in April showed a sharp decline compared with the same period of last year and the ring ratio. The sales of single-cylinder diesel engines dropped by 12.77% and increased by 12.28% compared with the same period of last year. The cumulative sales of 339.2 million diesel engines increased by 8.00% compared with the same period of last year.

According to statistics, from January to April this year, the cumulative sales of diesel engines totalled 196.4 million units, an increase of -2.06% over the same period last year, while the cumulative sales of diesel engines for agricultural machinery totalled 123.68 million units. The single cylinder diesel engine, which is mainly used in agricultural machinery, showed a significant decrease in sales in April compared with the same period of last year and the ring ratio. In April, 112,000 single cylinder diesel engines were sold, with a ring-to-ring growth of - 12.77% and a year-on-year growth of - 12.28%. The top five enterprises are Changchai, Intelligent Agriculture, Sanhuan, Golden Flying Fish and Quartet. Its sales of agricultural machinery in April were 88.4 million units, up - 12.95% annually, up - 10.45% year-on-year, cumulative sales of 330.1 million units, up - 7.19% year-on-year.

As a key component of agricultural machinery, engine sales can reflect the development trend of agricultural machinery market from the side. April should have been the peak season for sales of wheat harvesters and rice harvesters. However, due to the gradual saturation of the agricultural machinery market, especially the higher degree of saturation of wheat harvesters, the small pull on the market, the decrease of purchasing power of users, and the adjustment of subsidies policy, the mode of early purchase of machines in previous years has become a history. Therefore, this year's agricultural machinery sales are booming. The season did not usher in "prosperity".

Just as the China Agricultural Machinery Circulation Association recently released the China Agricultural Machinery Market Prosperity Index in April 2019, it was 47.2%, down 10.0 percentage points annually, down 9.9 percentage points from the same period last year. Among them, the sales ability index declined the most, down 12.9 percentage points from the same period last year, which just confirms the above statement. Zhang Huaguang, a special analyst, believes that March became the turning point of the agricultural machinery market from prosperity to decline, and April started the downward phase. The year-on-year decline means that this year's market is still depressed compared with last year. He predicted that the agricultural machinery market in May would still be difficult to improve due to the combination of mechanization of wheat, rice and maize crop cultivation and harvesting links, weak rigid demand, low contribution rate of animal husbandry, plant protection and other markets, which are still in the growth stage and difficult to support the current market, and the reduction of subsidies for single farm machinery this year.

Facing the contraction of agricultural machinery market for many years, every downturn of the market is to prepare for the future accumulation. We believe that many agricultural machinery enterprises will steadily step up, improve quality, innovate and develop, showing a different charm.