5 years of incubation tens of billions of dollars in LED industry is expected to fully replace incandescent lamps

LED is expected to fully replace the incandescent lamp, a year out of the Three Gorges power generation

Sun NBD reports from Shanghai

"I'm in combat for 24 hours." Tang Guoqing these days appear tired and excited, his identity is the general manager of Shanghai Jinqiao morning Photoelectric Technology Co., ltd..

He in a hurry to form a project -- Luoshan Road overpass landscape lighting project, the project must be developed before the completion of the 15 anniversary of Pudong in April 18th. This project invested 6 million 500 thousand yuan, the cost comparable to the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in 2004, when the anniversary of the 10 lighting project".

Another title of Tang Guoqing is the Secretary General of Shanghai optoelectronics industry association. He said with a smile, "get this project, not because of my title, because LED lights."

Tang Guoqing mouth of the LED lamp, the full name of semiconductor light-emitting diodes, is a new type of efficient solid-state light source, is expected to replace incandescent lamps in the future.

It has been 100 years since Edison invented the incandescent lamp. Shanghai communications technology development Limited by Share Ltd deputy general manager Gao Qing said, LED is the incandescent lamp as a gravedigger, transistors replaced vacuum tubes as semiconductor lamps to replace incandescent lamp and fluorescent lamp is represent the general trend. Shanghai technology is the implementation of the Oriental Pearl "lighting project" one of the manufacturers.

"Now the traffic lights in Shanghai, if necessary, the use of LED lights." Tang Guoqing said, not only in Shanghai, the country is basically the case, even on the train car lights, are now actively applying LED lighting.

LED is currently mainly used for landscape and public utilities, into the family also need policy support. A common LED family lamp is several times more expensive than incandescent lamp. Countries have long called for the promotion of green lighting, LED in a variety of energy-saving light source advantages. LED light source has a long life, energy saving, environmental protection and other characteristics, in the same brightness, LED lamp power consumption is only ordinary incandescent lamp 1/10, life can be extended 100 times.

Experts believe that the current shortage of energy in China, LED lighting can achieve the purpose of saving electricity, is expected in 2010 China's electricity consumption will reach 2 trillion and 700 billion degrees, lighting power consumption of more than 300 billion degrees. As long as the 1/3 incandescent lamp is replaced by the LED lamp, can save electricity for the country nearly 100 billion degrees per year, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of a Three Gorges project.

Last year, Shanghai, Dalian, Xiamen, Nanchang, 4 cities have been set up as a national semiconductor lighting industrial base, Shanghai has been the core of semiconductor lighting as a pillar industry.

At the same time, general electric, PHILPS, Rahm and other three world's largest lighting industry giant, has launched a large-scale commercial development plan, cooperation with semiconductor companies or mergers and acquisitions, the establishment of semiconductor lighting companies. They also suggested that in 2010 to make the luminous efficiency of the semiconductor lamp 8 times higher, the price is reduced to the current price of 1/100.

Under the support of the national industry, Taiwan businessmen and the three party to promote the international giants, China's LED industry has been initially formed, the mainland is currently on the downstream LED manufacturers have reached about 150, after strong. According to ITIS statistics, last year China's mainland enterprises to produce LED output value of about $800 million, China's Taiwan LED output value of $30 billion.

With the Beijing Olympic Games and Shanghai close to World Expo, the application of LED in the display board, traffic lights, lights and other needs continue to grow, not only to light the landmark, lit up a window to tens of thousands, tens of billions of dollars in industry.