The hardware industry is ready to take off with a third party

The rapid growth of China’s hardware industry in the international arena has become increasingly important. China is becoming a world leader in hardware and hardware with a boundless vigor and vitality. From “hardware” to “big industry”, China is becoming a global player. Hardware manufacturing center, hardware industry is a traditional and emerging and modern industry. Hardware is widely used. In the past, people called it hardware, such as nails, scissors, wrenches, and knives. These small hardware products have now developed into a large industry with world influence.

According to statistics, since the reform and opening up in China, especially in the last 10 years, the hardware industry and enterprises have greatly shortened the world’s size, management, benefits, product variety, quality, grade, production equipment, technical means, and methods. The distance, even in some aspects, exceeds the international level. China's hardware industry grows at an annual rate of 20%, and the total annual output value reaches 400 billion yuan, which is higher than that of the household appliance industry. China's total light industry exports account for about 25% of the country's total exports, and the hardware industry's exports ranked first in the light industry. China's hardware products are almost everywhere in the world, and China is becoming a veritable hardware industry power.

China's hardware products have surged from the 40 kinds of products in the early 1980s to less than 500 varieties, and they have escalated to more than 10,000 varieties. The product categories have gone from the past to traditional daily hardware, architectural hardware, and tool hardware. Increased to include the shower room, gas appliances, fumes, kitchen equipment, cooking appliances and other 10 categories of products.

The number of hardware companies increased from more than 2,000 in the early 1980s to more than 50,000. Over a hundred million yuan of scale enterprises from the 1988 statistics of Sanhuan, Zhang Xiaoquan, Guli, Great Wall Precision, Wendeng Power, and other 14 companies have rapidly risen to more than 100 now. Today, hardware-scale companies have mostly modern factories.

In the coastal areas of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Shandong, many special economic and industrial bases have been formed. The hardware industry has become a pillar industry or a key development industry in the region, and it occupies an important position in the national hardware industry.

The advantages of economic facilities, industrial development maturity, and labor costs make China increasingly the center of global hardware manufacturing: the growth rate of export of major hardware products is higher than the growth rate of output, and higher than the growth rate of sales in the domestic market; The traditional export products such as tools, hand tools, and architectural hardware products have a very high growth rate. - Leading the industry, China's hardware industry from "Made in China" to "Created in China."

China's hardware industry has moved from "hardware" to modern hardware. It faces several intrinsic areas including tool hardware, architectural hardware, lock security, kitchen and toilet products, daily-use hardware, etc., and its annual trade volume amounts to US$100 billion in international markets. . Since 1996, China has established 14 technical development centers, including zippers, electric shavers, stainless steel vessels, iron pans, blades, bicycle locks, and 16 product centers such as pressure cookers, electric shavers, and lighters. These centers have successively developed products such as biometric fingerprint locks, explosion-proof composite stainless steel kitchen knives, scissors, fireproof zippers, remote-controlled electric pressure cookers, etc. to fill gaps in the domestic market, greatly increasing the competitiveness of enterprises.

The number of independent intellectual property rights in the hardware industry has continued to expand, and technological innovation products have continued to increase. Only self-innovation products owned by large-scale enterprises each have at least several, and some even reach more than 10.

Gas water heaters, gas stoves, cooking appliances, faucets, range hoods, razors, and other industrial products have been listed in the "China Top Brand" evaluation list. The hardware industry has produced nearly 50 "Chinese famous brands". These Chinese brand-name companies and products have become a real “lead geese” in the hardware industry. China National Hardware Association closely cooperates with local governments and actively cultivates and builds industrial clusters with professional subdivision and a close industrial chain. It has cultivated 23 national-level hardware product production and export bases nationwide. The professional subdivision and the development of industrial clusters are a brand-new feature of China's hardware industry in recent years, which has produced an accumulation effect. - The outlook for the hardware industry is promising, and the industrial structure still needs to be adjusted.

The tremendous changes that hardware products bring to people's lives are reflected in all aspects of people's lives. Just taking the small locks as an example, it is enough to explain the great changes in the industry. In the past, the family of locks was just ordinary home locks and bicycle locks. However, with the development of motorcycles, automobile industry, and high-end housing, some companies have developed various types of motorcycle locks, car locks, and anti-theft locks suitable for modern transportation. . Not only has the variety of locks increased, but traditional products have also demonstrated high-tech charm. Electronic locks, fingerprint locks, and others have been proven. The traditional tool hardware has also quietly changed. The garden tools began to extend in depth, and the scissors for cutting the branches were no longer simple, but were gradually replaced by newly developed manual, power tools, and rakes that were suitable for home and community construction.

Although China's hardware industry has achieved leaps and bounds, there has been no small improvement, but after all, the industrial foundation is thin, and there are many differences compared with foreign advanced enterprises. In many aspects such as high-end technology, independent intellectual property rights, brand awareness, modern enterprise management, and logistics business, all need to be strengthened and improved. Many of the products of Chinese companies still belong to the OEM production of OEMs for foreign companies. At the same time, the products of many domestic enterprises still remain at the low-price competition in the low-end market.

At present, the hardware industry is advancing the structural adjustment of the industry. First, adjust the industry and enterprise structure, guide the establishment of a modern enterprise system, and cultivate a group of large and medium-sized enterprises and “little giant” companies with high product quality, high technology content, high brand awareness, high market share, and good economic returns; Adjust the ownership structure so that the proportion of state-owned, private, private and other companies with different components in the industry is more reasonable; Third, adjust the product structure so that the company will gradually establish product development mechanisms and technological innovation mechanisms, and increase the use of high technology to transform traditional industries; The fourth is to adjust the layout of the national hardware industry to make it more reasonable and improve the overall level.

How to make the company have sustainable competitiveness is a subject that many hardware companies are thinking about. As a result, the concept of "big hardware manufacturing" was gradually mentioned by various companies and experts in the hardware industry on various occasions, and the demand for integrated hardware-manufacturing industry was also increasing. The hardware industry is mainly through the changes in the physical shape of metal raw materials, processing and assembly into products. As long as it is based on a single metal assembly as the main process of industrial areas are all belong to the hardware industry. If we extend the concept of hardware manufacturing to the entire manufacturing field, and consider the development of the hardware industry from the height of the manufacturing industry, the concept of "big hardware manufacturing" arises from the processing of metal materials to the manufacture of primary metal products. The production of general-purpose production equipment is extended to the manufacture of special equipment for all sectors of the national economy. This entire production chain can be referred to as "big hardware manufacturing."

In recent years, in areas where the hardware industry is concentrated, such as Zhejiang Yongkang and Guangdong Foshan, traditional hardware manufacturers have gradually achieved forward and backward integration. Manufacturers that originally produced only hardware spare parts were also involved in the manufacture of large-scale mechanical equipment. Usually a company in a region also realizes the strategic integration of enterprises from raw material processing to spare parts supply to finished product manufacturing. Hardware manufacturing companies also attach more importance to product research and development and technological innovation. Technological R&D also promotes the upgrading of hardware companies. "Major hardware manufacturing" has become a common practice in the industrial concentration areas.

In fact, the transition from hardware to hardware is the process of transformation from traditional hardware to modern hardware. The only choice is to rely on scientific and technological advancement, take advantage of science and technology, and science and technology. How to integrate all resources in the hardware industry to make the hardware manufacturing industry more adaptable to the development trend of economic globalization? The information integration function of the Internet has provided the industry's alliance with the possibility that the emergence of the industry e-commerce platform has provided a platform for sales and trading across a large number of companies. The use of the Internet to sell its own products has become a trend. Among the commercial websites with the most commercial value in China in 2004, the industry B2B accounted for more than half of the country, and the hardware industry websites ranked first. Hope that the public hardware companies can flex their muscles in the era of e-commerce.