Research and Markets:2008-2009 China Lighting Industry Report

On the international and domestic markets, China's lighting industry has maintained a rapid and stable development. Driven by China and foreign consumer markets, in 2008, China's light bulb production has reached 15 billion 400 million, an increase of 3.5%. With the improvement of China's lighting product quality and technical standards, China's lighting industry, the production of light bulbs will be expected to achieve 9%-12% growth rate.

China's lighting products can be divided into incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps and special bulbs. 2008, China's incandescent lamp production has reached 3 billion 400 million, down by 23%, while the output of fluorescent lamps reached only 4 billion 800 million, an increase of 14%. Since 2007, the central government has issued a series of policies to promote the efficiency of electricity, is expected to continue to rise in China's incandescent lamp production, and optimize the lighting product portfolio.

As the lighting industry is an emerging industry, therefore, LED will enjoy a better future. In 2008, LED has reached 51 billion 500 million China yield components, the high brightness LED element output has more than 30 billion, the total yield of the LED element 58%; LED chip production reached 41 billion 500 million, among them, high brightness LED chips has reached 24 billion 500 million, an increase of 16.8%, and accounted for the total output of the LED chip 59%. With the rapid development of urban lighting and indoor and outdoor decorative lighting, LED industry in mainland China will be rapid development. (http://www.solidstatELighting.net/documents/view/cldoc.php? Id=117914#top)