Review of China's lighting industry LED products market

Compared with the traditional lighting tools, LED lighting products, especially the gallium nitride (GaN) white LED light source of small size and light weight, good direction and resistant to all kinds of harsh conditions, advantages in power consumption, life and other aspects of environmental protection are incomparable, enough to cause a huge impact on the market of traditional light source. With the advent of the third generation of gallium nitride semiconductor materials and the advent of blue, green, white LED, LED lighting will gradually replace the incandescent and fluorescent lamps, lighting industry has become the mainstream products. The difficulty and risk of LED lighting industry is much lower than that of microelectronics industry, which can give play to the comparative advantage of our country.

In June 2003, in the field of lighting in China by the Ministry of science and technology in the "863" program support, promptly launched a "national semiconductor lighting project". April 2004, the Ministry of science and technology to determine the focus of the development of new lighting industry, and to determine Fujian, Shanghai, Nanchang, Dalian and Jiangxi, the first batch of four national semiconductor lighting industry base. Through the support of "863" program and other scientific and technological projects, China has initially formed a relatively complete industrial chain from the epitaxial wafer production, chip preparation, device packaging integration applications.

Currently engaged in LED industry, the domestic unit of more than 400 (excluding foreign), employing more than 50 thousand people, of which more than 5000 technical personnel. In 2002 our country light emitting diode (LED) production enterprises amounted to 420, more than 3 employees, production of about 15000000000, the output value of about 8000000000 yuan; 2003 production reached 20 billion, the output value of about 10000000000 yuan, the growth rate of more than 30%, the super high brightness light-emitting diode output growth over 50% billions. China's lighting industry LED industry has a certain technical and industrial base, the blue chip index reaches the mid-range level of foreign products, LED packaging technology gap with foreign countries, has a large share in the international market, there may be a breakthrough in key technologies, the formation of independent intellectual property rights; in addition, located in the lower reaches of the industrial chain chip package and lighting industry, is a technology intensive industries, and labor-intensive industries, China has the comparative advantage of labor force, therefore has the ability to undertake the transfer of the international semiconductor lighting industry.

LED lighting mainly in the field of signal lamp, landscape lighting, decorative lighting, automotive lamps and other Home Furnishing. Many cities in China, only Beijing has nearly twenty thousand of traffic lights, to replace the existing traffic lights with LED, its market prospects are very broad. Decorative landscape lighting is the main application of LED lighting market, in China's development is also more mature, some cities have been in the city lighting engineering using LED lighting products. With the preparation of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the construction of the city of Shanghai in the year of 2010, the application of the LED lamp in the urban landscape lighting will be further expanded, and the demand will also rise further in the future. There are 300 million families in our country, if the LED lighting is widely used in home lighting, the market will be very huge. Is a big market for LED car lamp, some high-grade car the United States, Japan and Europe have been part of the use of LED lighting, with the development of China economy, automobile and motorcycle industry in the rapid development in recent years, the accessory products of automobile and motorcycle lamp lights the demand is also rising. But the field of automotive access and higher threshold, in China also need a process.

But LED's price is generally higher than ordinary incandescent lamp and fluorescent lamp, still need to rely on technological innovation and scale to reduce production costs. In the long run, general lighting LED lighting market is the largest tool, in order to let the LED light to enter thousands of households, the development of low cost, high power, high brightness white LED and lighting system into a more prominent position, pay close attention to the deployment.