2014 China's LED industry will continue to rise last year ushered in a new round of growth momentum

Ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from both save energy and reduce environmental pollution, or from the point of view, LED as a new light source has a great potential to replace traditional lighting sources, countries also set off a wave of the promotion of LED lighting.

LED is a light emitting diode (LightEmittingDiode) of the English abbreviation, it is used as a luminescent material of semiconductor electronic components using solid semiconductor chip, known as the "revolutionary new era solid light source technology in twenty-first Century". Compared to incandescent lamps, energy-saving lamps and other traditional lighting products, its energy saving, environmental protection, long life, instant start, Gao Xian color and other advantages have been widely recognized around the world.

The United States, Japan, EU, South Korea and other countries have launched a national semiconductor lighting project, as early as in 1998, Japan launched the first "twenty-first Century lighting" plan, the federal government of the United States in 2002 also launched a "national semiconductor lighting project" or "next generation lighting plan (NGLl)", pushing LED lighting. The EU's rainbow project also started in July 2000, commissioned 6 large companies, 2 universities, through the EU grants to promote the application of white light-emitting diodes. At the same time, South Korea also invested $100 million in 2004-2008, the implementation of solid-state lighting program". In 2012 China also issued the "semiconductor lighting technology development" 12th Five-Year "special plan", put forward to the "12th Five-Year" at the end of the light emitting diode (LED) in the general lighting market share reached 30%, 500 billion yuan industrial scale target.

2014 China's LED industry will continue to rise last year ushered in a new round of growth momentum

Just past 2013 is the rapid development of China's LED industry in the year, according to the statistics of the CSA research and development department, in 2013 the overall size of China's semiconductor lighting applications has reached 206 billion 800 million yuan, an increase of 36%. The general lighting market value of 69 billion 600 million yuan, the growth rate of up to 65%, accounting for LED market share also increased from 28% in 2012 to 34% in 2013; because demand for the tablet computer and promote the permeability of LED backlight LCD TV backlight applications continues to improve, also maintained a rapid growth, the growth rate of about 35%, the output value reached 39 billion yuan. In addition, the application of LED automotive lighting, medical, agriculture and other emerging areas of lighting also increased significantly, an increase of more than 25%, at the same time, optical communication, wearable electronics and applications in aerospace and other fields in 2013 is also the highlight LED applications.

LED is the core material of gallium (Ga) and arsenic (AS), phosphorus (P), indium compounds made of semiconductor chip light-emitting materials. At present, the wide band gap semiconductor materials based on gallium nitride (GaN) and gallium indium nitride (InGaN) is one of the most commercially valuable LED light material. In 2013, China's chip sector output reached 10 billion 500 million yuan, an increase of 31.5%; the yield increase is as high as 61%, of which GaN chip production accounted for 65%, while four Yuan line chip with InGaAlP chip based production accounted for 25%, GaAs and other chips accounted for about 10%.

According to experts predict that in 2014 China's LED industry will continue to rise in 2013, ushered in a new round of growth, the growth rate is expected to reach about 40%. The rapid development of global LED lighting, will lead to the rapid growth of gallium and indium and other semiconductor metal demand, will drive more and more companies and individuals concerned about rare metals such as indium and gallium. As the world's indium, gallium and other rare metals trading volume and inventory of the largest spot exchange, the dominant position of the Pan Asian non-ferrous metals exchange in the rare metals industry will gradually highlight.