At present, the larger markets in the hardware industry are mainly concentrated in mechanical hardware, construction hardware, decorative hardware, daily hardware and other large pieces. Experts predict that by 2020, the proportion of China's industrial added value in global industrial added value will increase from 5.72% in 2000 to more than 10%; The proportion of finished product exports in the global manufactured goods export is from the
current hardware industry in 2000 The larger markets are mainly concentrated in mechanical hardware, construction hardware, decorative hardware, daily hardware and other large pieces. Experts predict that by 2020, the proportion of China's industrial added value in global industrial added value will increase from 5.72% in 2000 to more than 10%; The proportion of manufactured goods exports in global manufactured goods exports should increase from 5.22% in 2000 to more than 10%. At that time, China will have a number of strong hardware manufacturing groups and form several distinctive and internationally renowned hardware manufacturing concentrations.
After decades of accumulation and steady improvement, our country's hardware industry is now the world's largest country in terms of output, and exports are steadily increasing every year. Among them, the larger export amount is tool products, reaching 5.34 billion US dollars; This was followed by construction hardware at $4.34 billion. Faucets exported $2.23 billion and locks $680 million. The countries with the largest export value are the United States, Japan, Europe, and South Korea. The annual exports of our country's hardware industry are growing at a rate of about 8%. Last year, the export value of hardware products exceeded 5 billion US dollars, ranking third in the light industry export ranking. Due to the improvement of China's hardware manufacturing level and the expansion of production capacity, it is expected that in the next 5 years, China's hardware products will maintain a steady growth of more than 10% per year. In the first 10 months, our country's import and export volume of hardware and electrical products exceeded 500 billion US dollars. The surplus further expanded, reaching US$7.06 billion, accounting for 64% of the national trade surplus in the same period.
Luo Baihui, head of the International Mould and Plastic Hardware Industry Suppliers Association, pointed out that the current development characteristics of our country's hardware industry show six major trends: exports are surging, and the comparative advantage is obvious; the operation of capital is active, driving the sharing of resources between enterprises; the polarization of enterprises brings market rationality; The increase in high-tech content and the enhancement of the market competitiveness of products, "internationalization of domestic competition, localization of international competition" will be the characteristics of the development of our country's hardware industry in the next few years.
1. The position as a global hardware manufacturing center will be further stabilized.
China's economic facilities are relatively perfect, the industrial development is relatively mature and the labor cost is low, and it has the comparative advantage of becoming a global hardware manufacturing center, and the export-oriented development characteristics of the hardware manufacturing industry are obvious. The strengthening of the central position is first manifested in the overall growth of the export of hardware products in recent years: the export growth rate of major hardware products is higher than the growth rate of output and higher than the growth rate of domestic market sales; The main hardware and electrical products are in full bloom, and the traditional export categories of power tools, hand tools, and construction hardware products have increased very highly. The huge market and centrality gravity will further attract the shift of hardware multinational manufacturing centers to China.
2. The capital operation in the industry will tend to be active, and the cooperation between enterprises will be significantly strengthened.
In the environment of global competition, in order to obtain a favorable competitive position and improve competitiveness, industrial capital is another theme of industry operation. In 2004, Supor and Vantage were listed successively, and Hongbao is also actively working hard for listing, and Wanhe's capital market operation will not stop due to the failure of the restructuring with Yuemeiya. From the perspective of capital, the main feature of the current situation is that the expansion of capital is intensifying. From the perspective of competitive behavior, the cooperation between enterprises in resource sharing is increasing.
3. The polarization of enterprises will be further intensified.
The next few years will be a period of high-speed shock in the hardware industry, and the direct consequence of this high-speed shock is to lead to the expansion of the polarization trend in the current hardware kitchen and bathroom brand camp. It is expected that there will not be so many hardware companies that can really survive in the market in the next few years. But this high-speed shock in the hardware industry will bring huge opportunities, and the results of the shock will make the market operation more rational.
4. Sales channels will undergo profound changes, and the competition between channels will become increasingly fierce.
With their broad market coverage, procurement scale and cost advantages, large retailers will increasingly have more control over production enterprises in terms of product pricing and payment delivery. At the same time, the requirements of the international market for our country's hardware products will gradually develop and change, and there will be higher requirements for the quality, packaging, and supply period of Chinese products, and even gradually extend to the production process and product research and development, combining products with environmental protection, energy resources, and human environment.
5. Market competition will shift from price-based to high-quality and high-tech products.
With the deepening of competition, the profit margins of all stages of the hardware industry chain are compressed, and the space for price reduction is decreasing. More and more enterprises realize that price competition alone cannot establish core competitiveness and is not the direction of long-term development, so they strive to explore new development paths. Many hardware companies have increased investment in technology, developed new products with high technology content, took product differentiation as a long-term plan for enterprise development, sought new market demand, and established new economic growth points (such as small household appliances and other similar industries) to achieve sustainable development of enterprises.
6. The integration of domestic and foreign enterprises will be further accelerated.
In order to improve their own strength and expand the international market faster, domestic hardware enterprises will accelerate the integration with foreign enterprises through a variety of means to improve product quality and improve competitiveness. While continuing to expand the markets of traditional countries such as the United States and Japan, it will also bloom in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Russia, Europe, Africa, etc.