From behind closed doors to reform and opening up, from planned economy to market economy, from state owned enterprises, private and other non-public economic mess to flourish, for 30 years, China hardware industry has experienced from scratch, from the production site to blossom everywhere, from a difficult start to the rapid development of the road Teng fly. Whether it is private hardware start empty-handed manufacturing enterprises, or after entering the state-owned enterprise restructuring of private capital, the rapid development of the hardware are proved, the competitive labor intensive industry, only by combining with the market economic system, and the private system, can give their own improvement and development, to bring new.

Reform to the hardware industry to get new

According to the Secretary of the international mould and hardware plastic industry suppliers association chairman Luo Baihui estimates, from the initial industrial millions to scale production workers, now more than 20 million employees of enterprise 4, from 10 in 1988 sales of more than billion yuan enterprises to today's 8000 to 1 million, sales of 1 billion yuan enterprises reached more than 20...... Reform to China's hardware industry brought about by the change is to loosen the reins of restraint, the industry as a galloping horse, march forward courageously. Hardware industry enterprises are stronger and more specifically, do fine, in the adjustment of product, industry and ownership structure, promote technological innovation, the implementation of brand strategy, change the mode of economic growth, the establishment of regional characteristics, expand international cooperation and exchanges, all be not of the common sort achievements. At present, China's hardware industry sales of over 100 million yuan enterprises accounted for 20%, while in 1988 only, Zhang Xiaoquan, at the Great Wall, three Seiko, Wendeng power companies such as 14 sales of more than billion yuan; the varieties of products from 40 in 1984 to the present 10 thousand kinds of variety of surge.

According to statistics, hardware products in the 1984 of the last century, only 40 kinds of varieties less than 500. Today, the product has exploded to more than 10 thousand kinds of products, and product varieties to reach forty thousand or fifty thousand, is the past 20 times. Product categories, from the past traditional daily hardware, architectural hardware, hardware tools industry three nature, increased to 10 categories of products, added a new shower room, gas appliances, range hood, kitchen equipment, cooking utensils and other new products. Even the traditional tools, but also increased the number of modern life, there are many varieties of decoration, gardening tools.

At the same time, the hardware industry sales format substantial changes. In the eyes of Luo Baihui, today's hardware products market has been from the past planned economy period of a single hardware system evolves into a variety of sales channels: large-scale professional hardware market, brand franchise stores, also appeared in the new network marketing model. Hardware professional market, and even can be said to be a disruptive change, because both from the point of view of scale, or from the point of view, are not before the reform and opening up. These large-scale hardware professional market, located in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Wuhan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chengdu and other places. It should be said that the professional hardware market from the integrated market, the market is mature and development needs.

Rising international status

30 years of reform and opening up, especially in the last 20 years, Chinese hardware industry, enterprise scale, product variety, quality and management level and brand influence has been significantly improved, and the world in narrowing the gap, some products even more than the international level. According to statistics, in 1988 China's exports of hardware products is only $800 million, but now reached $30 billion to $40 billion, is 20 to 50 times a year ago.

As early as 1999, the industry China hardware security and technology progress based on the consideration of the first in the industry to start out straight line type gas water heater, thus promote the pace of industrial restructuring of the industry based on technology progress. Later, under the leadership of the China Hardware Products Association, pressure cooker, faucet, hood, tools, locks and other products through the development of new standards, have increased the pace of elimination of backward products. To lock as an example, a product from the initial to the padlock handle lock, electromechanical locks, electronic locks, remote control lock until the fingerprint lock changes. Since 2001, China International Hardware Fair has been successfully held 8 sessions. The exhibition area from 100 thousand square meters to 10 thousand square meters, 30 thousand square meters, 50 thousand square meters, 70 thousand square meters until 2008, scale year after year, the level of a year, has become Asia's first professional exhibition, second of the world. In the process of economic globalization, China's hardware industry in the world has become an indispensable important role.

China hardware for 30 years, is a bold creation 30 years, hardware industry has opened up a new world: the birth of a gas water heater is a creation; self negation, elimination of vertical type water heater is a creation; naming characteristics of the region, the regional economy for the first time to open the door is created by convention; the economic form, and the world of the real, to join the World Federation of hardware, and strive to the world hardware general assembly in China held, is a pioneering work......

Summing up the development of industry reform and opening up 30 years, China's hardware industry achievements, but some high-end products still rely heavily on imports. Next, the industry will be under the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, from the amount of expansion to the quality of the upgrade, to achieve the transformation of added value.