The time for the hardware industry to enhance its core competitiveness

According to reliable data, most of the global tools are produced by enterprises in China, the United States, and Germany. After 30 years of rapid development, China has become the world’s leading tool manufacturing center and consumer market. In addition to fully satisfying the domestic market demand, China’s hand tools and power tools have also been exported to many countries around the world. China's tool manufacturing plays an important role in the global industrial chain.

At present, China’s tool hardware industry is in a critical period of improving its core competitiveness. The mainstream companies in the industry are increasing investment in technological equipment and transformation to take the path of healthy development with low carbon, environmental protection, and energy conservation. The domestic tools have determined the development goals for the next five years, and strive to achieve a transformation from qualitative change to qualitative change through the joint efforts of the entire industry. Shi Lanlan, executive vice president and chairman of the China Association of China Hardware Products Association, said in an interview.

Statistics from the customs show that during the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan period, the growth rate of China’s tool exports has exceeded 20 per year. In 2010, the total value of China’s exports of various tools exceeded 8 billion U.S. dollars; in January-June this year, the export value was 4.904 billion U.S. dollars. The year-on-year increase of 25.4. At present, more than 160 countries in the world have Chinese tool products.

If a manufacturing industry wants to cast a world brand, it must not only improve product quality and technical level, but also have persistent and innovative spirit. It is reported that in the next five years, domestic tools will strive to achieve new breakthroughs in product development, standard setting, and market development. There are five specific development goals: First, the whole industry will strive to achieve export volume of US$10 billion by 2015 on the basis of steady growth, of which the export of self-owned brands will reach 10-15. The second is to guide the Dragon Skull Dry Enterprise through equity optimization. Such as forming a joint force to participate in international market competition. In this process, we must basically eliminate high energy consumption and high pollution companies. The third is to introduce advanced management systems, increase research and innovation, and strive to establish one or two provincial or national engineering technology centers to ensure that the funds used for R&D and innovation are not less than 5 percent of the sales revenue, and half of the patents declared or obtained Put into practical use. Fourth, large enterprises should be encouraged to do a good job of quality management, establish a high-level laboratory equipped with advanced professional testing instruments, and be used for daily quality supervision. Fifth, we must increase the popularity of Chinese brands in the international market, and strive to make more Chinese-made tool products into foreign high-end markets; at the same time, increase the share of domestic high-end products.

To achieve the above goals, we must first vigorously develop the cultivation of China's tool brands, in particular to increase and expand the awareness of China's own brand of tools in the domestic and foreign markets, so that enterprises can constantly improve their competitiveness in the process of nurturing and creating brands. Large-scale investment in technology and equipment, in the next 5 to 10 years and strive to form a group of enterprises with an annual output value of 1 billion yuan, and nurtured 3 to 5 world-renowned tool brands and a large number of well-known brands of domestic tools.

Zhang Dongli, chairman of the China Hardware Products Association, added that during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the domestic tool industry should step up the pace of transformation and upgrading. Manufacturers should pay more attention to quality safety and technological innovation. Only in this way can the Chinese tool industry realize the advancement from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power. At the same time, the entire industry can not carry out vicious competition, peers should join hands together, and through cooperation with international counterparts to promote their own and global hardware industry development.

A number of well-known companies have emerged in the tool industry in China. The heads of these companies have also expressed their own views on the development direction of the industry in the next five years and the company's development priorities. On behalf of companies, the rapid economic growth and substantial increase in income have led to an increasing demand for high-end and branded tools in the market. This is also the key to making domestic tools more competitive in the future. Like other manufacturing industries in China, at present, domestic tools face the challenges of rising labor costs, shortages of ancillary products, insufficient power resources, and increasingly stringent environmental protection requirements. Faced with these challenges, we must achieve sound development in the face of these difficulties. The production line will intensify the transformation to ensure high efficiency and high quality.