Ministry data shows that in 2013 imports of integrated circuits of up to $ 231.3 billion , an increase of 20.5 %, while the General Administration of Customs data showed China's crude oil imports over the same period total approximately $ 219.6 billion . In fact, China has more than ten years of IC imports of oil , ranking first in the long-term types of imported products. All along , China's chip industry controlled by others , " the core of China's IC industry in terms of technology, design , manufacturing processes, industrial scale, leading enterprises , compared with the world advanced level there is a big gap , a large number of high-end and mainstream products rely on imports. " repeated suggestions chip industrial development of the CPPCC National Committee, CPPCC Chairman Wuhan Wu Chao said. "Compared with the international situation is not optimistic , we are very hard to catch up ." China Semiconductor Industry Association , vice chairman of the National Science and Technology Major Project 01 ,special technical chief engineer, Wei Shaojun said that currently China's semiconductor industry, chip design and international level roughly equal , level packaging technology have 4-5 years gap, the gap in the manufacturing process for three years and a half or so. In promoting the development of the chip industry , China's investment is quite substantial. Deng said that the country 's support for the introduction of chip development of major projects, there are many levels of investment are ten billion yuan . Chipmakers Beijing , Shanghai , Wuhan, Xi'an and other places in support of state-owned banks and the local government has invested heavily in the semiconductor industry .However, after years of efforts, the local chip manufacturer is still in its infancy, the most representative SMIC and other companies , compared with rival Intel , Samsung, TSMC and other international semiconductor giants , there is still a huge gap . " The core technology is not buy ." Deng said , because of funding , technology, management and other aspects of disadvantage, Chinese enterprises are still very difficult to compete with foreign giants . On the one hand , compared with other countries, China 's chip industry started late, the core technology controlled by others ; on the other hand , compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investment , China's investment is still relatively small. MIIT 12 released " 2013 IC Industry Development Review and Prospects " , pointed out that in 2013 the overall trend of strong recovery of China's IC industry , significantly improved operating efficiency . The report predicts that in 2014 China's IC industry overall situation is better than in 2013 , IC design industry will continue to grow highlights, industry growth is expected to improve in 2013 than 5-10 percentage points , reaching more than 15%. Data shows that the global semiconductor market in 2013 to restore growth. China's IC industry to seize market opportunities , accelerate national policies to support the development of the integrated circuit industry , the full-year sales value of 269.3 billion yuan , an increase of 7.9% , 2.9 percentage points higher than the previous year ; cumulative production of integrated circuits 86.65 billion , an increase of 5.3%.