Guangdong LED Industry Development Trend Analysis

In March, the Guangdong Provincial Government decided to include the LED industry as one of the three strategically emerging industries with a focus on development. Some industry professionals proposed to speed up the development of the LED industry development plan at the two sessions this year. At present, the plan has been included in the 2013 key issues.

Trend: LED lamps will replace energy-saving lamps According to statistics, by 2012, there were more than 1,200 LED companies in Zhongshan City, of which nearly 100 were above-scale enterprises and employed more than 70,000 people. In 2012, the output value reached 35.65 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 55. %.

Since 2011, the municipal government has established a special fund for LED industry development of 10 million yuan, which is specifically designed to support the R&D and industrialization of the LED industry, the construction of a common technology platform, support plans for strong science and technology enterprises, and demonstration projects.

This week, the Zhongshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau announced that export batches and value of LED lamps in the first half of Zhongshan increased by 136.2% and 119.8% respectively year-on-year. According to reports, from the second half of last year to this year, the export of energy-saving lamps has been declining. It can be seen that LED lamps will further replace energy-saving lamps.

Crisis: Zhongshan faces competition from brother cities It is understood that there are many rapidly growing LED lighting companies in Zhongshan. Among them, Mulinsen Electronics Co., Ltd. has grown into the largest LED package company in China. In 2012, the company’s output value was nearly 2 billion yuan, profits and taxes exceeded 200 million yuan, and the market share of Christmas LED lamps in Europe and the United States was more than 60%. The Hongbao Electric Industry, driven by popularization of LED lighting policies in the public lighting sector, the annual output value has rapidly increased from 20 million yuan in 2009 to nearly 100 million yuan in 2012.

At present, Zhongshan has a number of LED entrepreneurship incubation and R & D bases and commercial logistics platforms are under construction. Xiaolan Town is also building China's largest LED market, LED China Jiuzhou City. At present, the first phase of Jiuzhou City is basically completed. After the market is completed, Zhongshan will become the national LED product trade logistics hub.

According to industry insiders, Zhongshan LED is currently facing some problems. The entire LED industry is faced with the problem that most upstream core technology patents are controlled by foreign manufacturers, lack of complete industry standardization standards, and the quality of products is uneven. At the same time, Zhongshan also faces competitive pressures from sister cities such as Dongguan, Jiangmen and Huizhou.

Municipal Development and Reform Bureau: planning into the city's key research topics It is understood that in order to coordinate the industrial layout, integration of various resources, and promote the development of the LED industry, the relevant departments have proposed to the municipal government to prepare the "Zhongshan City LED industry development plan" application. At present, this topic has been approved by the municipal government and has been included in the key research topics of Zhongshan City in 2013.

The relevant departments of the municipal government stated that the next step is to conduct a comprehensive and systematic analysis and research on the LED industry development situation in Zhongshan City, comprehensively consider and analyze the future development trend of LED industry in Zhongshan City, and refer to and learn from the experience of advanced LED lighting industry in advanced countries and regions. Forward-looking policy recommendations for the development of Zhongshan LED industry.