LED industry market size is expected to double in three years

In the global energy shortage, environmental protection requirements continue to improve the situation, have been the end of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the upcoming 2010 Shanghai World Expo all in green energy as the theme, which brought a great historical opportunity to the development of LED lighting industry China.

According to the relevant domestic institutions predict that in the Olympic Games, the strong power of the Expo, China LED lighting market will grow rapidly from 4 billion 850 million yuan in 2007 to $9 billion 810 million in 2010.

Not long ago, the end of the Beijing Olympic Games, LED lighting technology in the history of the Olympic Games for the first time large-scale use and success. According to official statistics, the Beijing Olympic Games, including a total of 36 venues, the demand for lighting products will reach about $500 million, which does not include the Olympic Village, Olympic Gardens and other public lighting market.

LED lighting in addition to the use of conventional lighting at least 60% energy saving, but also has a long life, easy integration, rapid response, environmental benefits, easy to control the distribution of light, rich colors and other advantages. In the water cube, for example, only the use of LED lights, water cube landscape lighting project, is expected to be able to save 745 thousand kwh of energy than traditional fluorescent lamps, energy saving of more than 70%. Believe that the Olympic Games opening ceremony of the "long dream" and "dream rings" we also remember it is displayed in the huge LED screen of a 4564 square metre, this is by far the world's largest single full color large screen, rose into the air "fantasy rings", is made up of 45 thousand LED a lamp arrangement.

The preparation of World Expo in 2010 ushered in the climax of the new round of urban infrastructure, venue construction and transformation in which Shanghai was the center. As a new kind of "green" lighting source, the semiconductor LED lighting has been highly valued by the relevant departments of the municipal government and the leadership of the World Expo Bureau of Shanghai affairs coordination.

In addition, the Shanghai municipal government has also developed to promote the development of semiconductor lighting industry, promote the development of semiconductor lighting applications related policies and measures, is listed as "semiconductor lighting technology Expo special focus areas; support LED lighting is widely used in World Expo. 2010 World Expo will be a major opportunity for China's LED lighting industry development.

LED lighting in the Olympic Games and the use of World Expo, its role is not only to promote the rapid growth of its own city LED lighting industry, more importantly, its exemplary role. LED lighting in the Olympic venues, urban landscape lighting on the outstanding performance, will dispel the concerns of other cities for the use of LED lighting. Experts believe that China's LED lighting industry will usher in a new peak in 2010 before and after the development.

Source: EDN CHINA