Hardware is developing at home

The status and influence of the rapidly growing Chinese hardware industry in the world are increasingly strengthened. With infinite vigor and vitality, China is realizing the leap from a big hardware country to a powerful hardware country. From "small hardware" to "big industry", China is becoming a global hardware manufacturing center. Hardware products are widely used, in the past, people called it hardware, such as nails, scissors, wrench, knives. These little hardware products have now grown into big industries with worldwide influence.

Data show that since China's reform and opening up, especially in the past 10 years, the hardware industry and enterprises have greatly shortened the distance with the world in terms of scale, management, efficiency, product variety, quality, grade, production equipment and technical means and methods, and even exceeded the international level in some aspects. In 2005, the total import and export volume of China's hardware products reached 385. $9.7 billion, up 23 percent from a year earlier. 63%. Of these, the total amount of exports was 305. $1.2 billion, up 26 percent from a year earlier. 44%. China's hardware industry is growing at an annual rate of 20%, with an annual output value of 400 billion yuan, higher than that of home appliances. The export volume of China's whole light industry accounts for about 25% of the country's total export volume, and the export volume of hardware industry ranks the top three in the light industry. China's hardware products almost everywhere in the world, China is becoming a truly large hardware industry.

The number of Chinese hardware products has soared from 40 kinds of products in the early 1980s to less than 500 varieties to more than 10,000 varieties. Product categories have also been increased from the traditional daily hardware, building hardware, tool hardware three categories, including shower room, gas appliances, smoke smoke, kitchen equipment, cooking utensils and other 10 categories of products.

In coastal areas such as zhejiang, guangdong, jiangsu, Shanghai and shandong, many characteristic economic industrial bases have been formed, and the hardware industry has become the pillar industry or key development industry in the local area, and occupies an important position in the national hardware industry.

With the advantages of supporting economic facilities, industrial development maturity and labor cost, China is increasingly becoming the center of global hardware manufacturing. Power tools, hand tools, building hardware products and other traditional export categories of products increased very high. -- driven by industry leaders, China's hardware industry has moved from "made in China" to "created in China".

China's hardware industry from "hardware" to modern hardware, including tools hardware, building hardware, lock security, kitchen products, daily hardware and other internal areas, the total annual trade volume of the international market reached $1 trillion. Since 1996, China has set up 14 technology development centers for zippers, electric shavers, stainless steel vessels, iron POTS, blades and bicycle locks, and 16 product centers for pressure cookers, electric shavers and lighters. These centers have developed biological fingerprint lock, explosion composite stainless steel kitchen knife, scissors, fire zipper, remote control electric pressure cooker and other products to fill the gap in the domestic market, greatly enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises.

The possession of independent intellectual property rights in hardware industry has been expanding, and the number of technological innovation products has been increasing. There are at least a few independent innovation products in each enterprise, and some even reach more than 10.

Gas water heater, gas stove, cooking appliance, faucet, lampblack machine, razor and other industrial products have been included in "China famous brand" evaluation catalogue, hardware industry has been born nearly 50 "China famous brand". These Chinese famous brand enterprises and products become the real "leading geese" in the hardware industry. China hardware products association, in close cooperation with local governments, actively cultivates and builds industrial clusters with specialized segments and tight industrial chains, and has cultivated 23 national-level production and export bases of hardware products throughout the country. The development of specialized subdivision and industrial cluster is a new characteristic of Chinese hardware industry, which has accumulated effect. -- the prospect of hardware industry is promising, and the industrial structure still needs to be adjusted.

Hardware products to the people's lives to bring great changes reflected in the people's lives in all aspects. Just take the small locks as an example of how the industry has changed. Lock is familial only before general family expenses lock, bicycle USES the lock, but as the development of industry of motorbike, car, high-grade residence, a few enterprises develop subsequently the lock of all sorts of motorbike lock that suits contemporary traffic vehicle, car, guard against theft safe lock. Not only the variety of lock increased, and traditional products also show the charm of high-tech, electronic lock, fingerprint lock is a powerful proof. The traditional tool hardware has also quietly changed. Garden tools began to extend in depth. Clippers for pruning branches were no longer simple, but gradually replaced by newly developed hand, power tools and lawn mowers suitable for family and community construction.

Although China's hardware industry has made great progress by leaps and bounds, it still has a thin industrial foundation and many gaps compared with foreign advanced enterprises. High-end technology, independent intellectual property rights, brand awareness, modern enterprise management, logistics and other aspects need to be strengthened and improved. Many products of Chinese enterprises still belong to OEM production of foreign enterprises. At the same time, many products of domestic enterprises still stay in the low price competition in the low market.

Hardware industry is promoting industrial structural adjustment. First, we will adjust the structure of industries and enterprises, guide the establishment of a modern enterprise system, and foster large and medium-sized enterprises and "small giants" with high-quality products, high technological content, high brand awareness, high market share and good economic returns. Second, we will adjust the ownership structure so that the proportion of state-owned, private and privately owned enterprises in the industry is more reasonable. Third, adjust the product structure, so that enterprises gradually establish a product development mechanism and technological innovation mechanism, and increase the use of new and high technology to transform traditional industries; Fourth, adjust the layout of the hardware industry nationwide, make it more reasonable and improve the overall level.