From closed doors to reform and opening up, from planned economy to market economy, from state-owned, big pot rice to private and other non-public ownership economies have flourished. Over the past 40 years, China's hardware products industry has experienced growth from nothing, from fixed-point production to blooming everywhere, from a difficult start. to the road of rapid development. Whether it is a self-made private hardware manufacturing enterprise or a private capital entered after the restructuring of a state-owned enterprise, its rapid development has proved that hardware , a labor-intensive industry with sufficient competition, can only be achieved through close integration with the market economic system and the private system. Bring new life to your own take-off and development.

Reform brings new life to the hardware industry

According to estimates by Luo Baihui, Secretary General of the International Mould , Hardware and Plastic Industry Suppliers Association, from the initial industry "Million Army" to today's more than 20 million production employees and 40,000 enterprises above designated size, from more than 10 sales in 1988. There are now 8,000 to 10,000 companies with 100 million yuan in sales, and more than 20 companies with sales of 1 billion yuan... The changes brought by the reform to China's hardware industry are tantamount to loosening the reins, and the development of the industry is the same A galloping horse, moving forward bravely. Enterprises in the hardware industry are becoming stronger, bigger, specialized and refined. In adjusting products, industries and ownership structures, promoting technological innovation, implementing brand strategies, transforming economic growth patterns, establishing characteristic areas, and expanding international cooperation and exchanges, All have extraordinary achievements. At present, 20% of the enterprises in my country's hardware products industry have sales of over 100 million yuan, while in 1988, only 14 companies including Sanhuan, Zhang Xiaoquan, Guli, Great Wall Seiko and Wendeng Weili had sales of more than 100 million yuan; The variety of products has surged from more than 40 in 1984 to more than 10,000 now.

The reform of China's hardware international status has brought new life to the hardware industry

According to statistics, there were only more than 40 kinds of hardware products and less than 500 varieties in 1984 of the last century. Today, the number of products has exploded to more than 10,000 products, and the variety of products has reached 40,000 or 50,000, which is 20 times that of the past. The product categories have been increased from the traditional three natural industries of daily hardware , construction hardware and tool hardware to 10 categories of products, and new categories such as shower rooms , gas appliances, oil fume extraction, kitchen equipment , and cooking utensils have been added. Even traditional tools have added many varieties of decoration and gardening tools that are only available in modern life.

At the same time, the sales format of the hardware industry has undergone substantial changes. In Luo Baihui's view, today's hardware product market has evolved from the single Wujinjiaodian system in the past planned economy period to a variety of sales channels: a large-scale hardware professional market, enterprise brand franchise stores, and new networks. marketing model. For the hardware professional market, it can even be said to be a subversive change, because both in terms of scale and scope, it has never happened before the reform and opening up. These large-scale hardware professional markets are distributed in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Wuhan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chengdu and other places. It should be said that the separation of the professional hardware market from the comprehensive market is the need for market maturity and development.

Growing international status

In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, especially in the past 20 years, the number, scale, product variety, management and quality level and brand influence of China's hardware products industry have been significantly improved, and the gap with the world is also shrinking. Products even exceed the international level. According to statistics, in 1988, the export value of my country's hardware products was only 800 million US dollars, but now it has reached 30 billion to 40 billion US dollars, which is 40 to 50 times that of 20 years ago.

As early as 1999, based on the consideration of safety and technological progress, China's hardware industry took the lead in launching the elimination of direct-exhaust gas water heaters in the industry, thus promoting the adjustment of the entire industry's industrial structure based on technological progress. After that, under the leadership of the China Hardware Association, pressure cookers, range hoods, tools, locks and other products have stepped up the pace of eliminating outdated products through the formulation of new standards. Taking locks as an example, the product has changed from the original padlock to the handle door lock, and realized the transition from electromechanical locks, electronic locks to fingerprint locks and remote control locks.

Since 2001, China International Hardware Fair has been successfully held for 8 sessions. The exhibition area has also increased from 10,000 square meters, 30,000 square meters, 50,000 square meters, and 70,000 square meters to 100,000 square meters in 2008. It has become the second largest professional exhibition in the world. In the process of economic globalization, Chinese hardware has become an indispensable and important role in the world hardware industry.

The 40 years of China's hardware is the 40 years of bold creation. The hardware industry has opened up one new world after another: the creation of gas water heaters is a creation; the courage to self-denial and the elimination of in-line water heaters is a creation; naming the characteristic area, opening the area for the first time The door to the economy is creation; it is a pioneering work to join the World Hardware Federation and win the World Hardware Conference to be held in China by taking the form of the exhibition economy and connecting with the world...

Summarizing the development of the industry in the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China's hardware products industry has achieved remarkable results, but some high-end products still rely on a large number of imports. In the next step, under the guidance of the scientific development concept, the industry will realize the transformation from quantitative expansion to qualitative improvement, and realize the increase of added value.