LED industry immature bring worries

Introduction: LED in the international high-end products are mostly produced in Taiwan, China and Japan, Europe and the United States and other places, and many of China's small and medium enterprises can only engage in LED applications, the lowest in the industrial chain. In addition to a small number of large enterprises, many small and medium enterprises can only produce a large number of rainbow tubes and other quality requirements are not high.

Although China's exports of LED lamps are good, but the industry is not mature enough to come along with some of the problems have gradually highlighted, there are many worries, mainly in the following areas:

Lack of breakthrough in the core competitiveness of enterprises

All along, the LED industry in China is only in terms of product packaging, and in product development and chip manufacturing and other aspects of their own core technology and patents. Most of the international high-end products in the world are produced in China's Taiwan region and Japan, Europe and the United States and other places, and many small and medium enterprises in China can only engage in LED applications, the lowest in the industrial chain of the LED. In addition to a small number of large enterprises, many small and medium-sized enterprises can only produce large amounts of rainbow tube does not require high quality products to enterprises in the Pearl River Delta as an example, even many companies to produce in line with Europe and other developed countries certified products, only exports to Africa, India, Arabia and other countries and regions, made a profit of low-cost advantage to.

Technical barriers to trade issues outstanding

Since the second half of 2012, the United States, Japan, Mexico and the European Union and other countries and regions have increased the threshold of technology import LED lamps, energy saving and environmental protection, put forward covering ecological design, energy efficiency labeling, testing, performance, safety, size, weight, shape and other aspects of the higher, more stringent requirements for entering the country's orientation lights and LED lighting products, can be said that the technical barriers to trade has become China's major problems facing LED lamps can maintain export growth momentum.

LED industry immature bring worries

Product quality problems

Due to the lack of appropriate standards, the domestic LED companies in order to sacrifice the quality of products to seize the market phenomenon is common, resulting in product quality problems and frequency on the black list. According to incomplete statistics, since 2012, the EU non food rapid alert system (RAPEX) Bulletin of China's export of LED lighting products up to hundreds of times, among them, the vast majority is caused by creepage distance or clearance due to insufficient quality problems such as poor insulation performance. Thus, product quality has become an obstacle to the development of foreign markets in the LED industry. Increasing patent disputes. Due to the lack of LED core technology patents and product brands, the homogenization of domestic LED product competition is becoming increasingly serious, resulting in the export of goods trade friction. In recent years, the United States has repeatedly used 337 terms to prevent China's LED products into the U.S. market. If not properly handled, LED intellectual property rights will also form a long-term risk of trade friction.

Industry concentration is low

According to statistics, epitaxial chip link of China's LED industry industry concentration is more than 50%, but part of the package concentration is only 16.8%, especially LED lighting applications a large number of enterprises to enter the concentration is only 5.7%. In 2013, China's enterprises operating a total of nearly 9000 LED lamps, compared with last year, an increase of more than 1000, the total exports of the top 100 companies accounted for 40% of total exports, the proportion of last year also decreased by 3.5 percentage points. A large number of enterprises and the market supply is relatively dispersed, the pattern of business focus in the fierce market competition, especially in the low-end products of similar function and single, prices become the main means of competition among enterprises, led directly to the meager profits, thus restricting the overall export competitiveness and enterprise innovation ability promotion.