Hardware Industry Prospects, Still Need To Adjust The Industrial Structure

The rapid growth of hardware industry in ourbio-fingerprint lock, explosive compound stainless
country's international status and influence tosteel kitchen knives, scissors, fire zipper, remote
strengthen, China is now unlimited vigor and vitality tocontrol electric pressure cooker, etc. fill the gaps of
achieve the hardware from the hardware powersthe product, greatly enhanced the competitiveness
made a leap in power.of enterprises.
- From "hardware" to "big industry", China is becomingHardware industry, intellectual property ownership is
a global manufacturing center hardwareconstantly expanding, technological innovation is
Hardware industry is a traditional and new andincreasing. Just scale enterprises have their own
modern industries. Hardware products widely used ininnovative products, each at least a few, and some
the past, people call it hardware, such as nails,even up to more than 10. Gas water heater, gas
scissors, wrenches, knives. These small metalstove, cooking utensils, faucets, smoke machines,
products, and now has developed into a worldrazor, etc. Products have been included in the "China
influence of the largest industry.Famous Brand" rating directory, hardware, the birth
Statistics show that China's reform and opening up,of the industry has a total of nearly 50 "Chinese
especially in the last 10 years, the metal industriesfamous brand."
and enterprises in terms of scale, management,These Chinese famous enterprises and products
efficiency, product variety, quality, grade, productionbecome the hardware industry, a veritable "lead
equipment and technical means, methods, etc., havegoose." China National Hardware Association, in close
greatly shortened and the World distance, and evencooperation with local governments, and actively
in some respects than the international standard.foster and build professional segments, has close
2005, China's total import and export of metalindustrial chain of industrial clusters in the country to
products 38.597 billion U.S. dollars, an increase ofcultivate the 23 state-level hardware production and
23.63%. Among them, exports amounted to 30.512export base. Professional segments, industry cluster
billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 26.44%. China'sdevelopment, in recent years, China's hardware
hardware industry to 20% annual growth rate of theindustry, presented a new feature, resulting in the
development, the annual output value of 4,000 billionaccumulation effect.
yuan, higher than the household appliances industry.- Hardware industry prospects, still need to adjust
China's exports of light industry as a whole accountsthe industrial structure
for about 25% of the country's total exports,Hardware products to the tremendous changes in
hardware industry, light industry exports ranked thepeople's lives is reflected in all aspects of people's
top three. China's hardware products are almost alllives. Only a small lock, for example, is enough to
over the world, every corner of China's hardwareexplain the industry changes. Lock family past is just
industry is becoming a real power.general household locks, bicycle locks, but with the
China's hardware products from the early 80s of lastmotorcycle, automobile industry, high-end residential
century, 40 kinds of products, less than 500 varieties,development, a number of companies followed the
surge to the present more than 10,000 species;development of modern means of transport suitable
product categories have also been from the past thefor all kinds of motorcycle locks, car locks, anti-theft
traditional daily-use hardware, architectural hardware,security lock. Not only lock varieties has increased,
tools, hardware three categories, increased to includeand the traditional products also showed high-tech
the shower room, gas appliances, range hood, kitchencharm, electronic lock, fingerprint lock is proof that
equipment, cooking utensils and other 10 products.came one after another. Traditional tools hardware
Hardware number of enterprises from the early 80shas also quietly changed. Began to in-depth extension
of last century more than 2,000 to more than 50000.of garden tools, pruning twig scissors are no longer
Ultra-billion-scale enterprises from the ring in 1988simple, and gradually by the new development of
when the statistics, Zhang Koizumi, solid power, thefamily-and community-building manual, power tools,
Great Wall Seiko, Wen Deng Wei Li, 14 enterprises,weeding machine, etc. replaced.
the rapid rise to the present more than 100. Today,While China's hardware industry to be leaps and
the hardware scale enterprises are mostly owned bybounds, with no small progress, but after all industries
a modern factory.weak economic foundation, as compared with foreign
In the coastal areas of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu,advanced enterprises there is a wide range of
Shanghai, Shandong and other places, has formed adisparities. In the high-end technology and
number of characteristics of the economic industrialindependent intellectual property rights, brand
base, metal industry has become a pillar of the localawareness, enterprise modern management, logistics,
industries or focus on the development industry, andYe Tai and many other aspects need to be
National Hardware industry occupies an importantstrengthened and enhanced. Many enterprises in our
position.country's products also are the OEM for foreign
Economic facilities, industry maturity and the laborenterprises to OEM production, at the same time, the
cost advantage, so that our country is increasinglydomestic product of many enterprises still remain in
becoming a global hardware manufacturing center:the low-end market, low-cost competition.
the main hardware products, export growth is higherAt present, the hardware industry is the promotion
than output growth, higher sales growth in theof industrial structural adjustment. First, adjust the
domestic market; electric tools, hand tools,industry, enterprise structure, and guide the
architectural hardware products such as traditionalestablishment of modern enterprise system,
export product categories increased very high.cultivating a number of high-grade products, high
- Industry leading driven, China's metals industry fromtechnology, high brand awareness, market share,
the "Made in China" to "Created in China"good economic returns and medium-sized enterprises
China's hardware industry from the "hardware"and the "little giant" enterprises; second is to adjust
Towards a modern hardware, are faced withthe ownership structure so that the entire industry,
including tools hardware, architectural hardware, lockthe state-owned, private, private enterprises such as
security, kitchen and bath products, daily-usethe proportion of different components is more
hardware such as the internal areas of several majorreasonable; third is the adjustment of product
annual trade volume reached 1 trillion U.S. dollars instructure to enable enterprises to gradually establish
international market. From 1996 to the present, Chinaa mechanism for product development and
has established a zipper, electric shaving device,technological innovation mechanism and increase the
stainless steel utensils, wok, razor blades, bicycle lockuse of high technology to transform traditional
14 technology development centers, pressureindustries of the intensity; National Hardware 4 is to
cooker, electric shaving devices, lighters and other 16adjust industrial layout to make it more reasonable,
production center. These centers have developed athe overall level has been upgraded.