Hardware products are auxiliary and accessory products used in daily life and industrial production. In the early stage, it was made of gold, silver, copper, iron, tin and other metal materials. Now in addition to using a variety of metal materials, but also widely used plastic, glass fiber and other non-metallic materials. According to the data of "analysis report on development prospect and investment strategy planning of China's hardware industry", China's hardware industry experienced rapid recovery growth in 2010. On the whole, the import and export of the hardware industry has recovered to a high speed.

Hardware store market capacity or change trend

History into the modern industrial society, metal hardware products industry is rapid development, hardware industry in the development of the national economy has played an inestimable role, hardware products have become an indispensable part of industrial manufacturing.

But as a supporting product of industrial manufacturing, semi-finished products and tools used in the production process. Only a small part of daily hardware products are necessary tools for people's life.

In the National Bureau of statistics, the manufacturing industry is the third largest industry. These include: the production and manufacturing of means of living, such as agricultural and sideline products, food and beverage, tobacco, textile, clothing, leather, wood furniture, printing and sports goods and pharmaceutical manufacturing; The manufacturing of means of production, such as petrochemical industry, chemical fiber, rubber and plastics, non-metallic products manufacturing, metal smelting and processing, metal products manufacturing, general equipment manufacturing, industry-specific equipment manufacturing, transportation equipment manufacturing, electrical equipment, communication electronics, etc.

The metal products in the manufacturing industry and the general parts in the general equipment manufacturing and other related products in the classification constitute the "hardware" in the usual sense. It can be seen that "hardware" is not an existing industry category, but a cross combination of the above metal products hardware products. In the whole manufacturing industry, the responsibility of "hardware" is to provide manufacturing enterprises with parts and production tools, rather than as the final use of industry-specific equipment. However, we can not deny the important role of "hardware" in the social production process: "hardware" and manufacturing industry are intertwined and inseparable as a whole.

In areas where the hardware industry is concentrated, such as Yongkang in Zhejiang, Foshan in Guangdong, Zhongshan and other places, the traditional hardware production enterprises gradually realize forward and backward integration. Originally only producing hardware spare parts manufacturers also set foot in the manufacture of large-scale machinery and equipment. Generally, enterprises in a region have also realized the strategic integration from raw material processing to spare parts supply to finished product manufacturing. Hardware manufacturing enterprises also pay more attention to product R & D and technological innovation, which also promotes the industrial upgrading of hardware enterprises. "Big hardware manufacturing" has become a common practice in industrial concentration areas.

In fact, the transformation from small hardware to big hardware is the process from traditional hardware to modern hardware, and the only choice is to rely on the progress of science and technology, and take the road of prospering the park and industry with science and technology. How to integrate the hardware industry resources in the global economy.

The information integration function of the Internet provides the possibility for the industry alliance: the emergence of the industry e-commerce platform provides a business platform that can span the space for many enterprises, and it has become a fashion to sell their products through the Internet. Among the most valuable commercial websites in China in 2004, B2B industry accounted for the majority of the country, and hardware industry websites ranked the top.

China's hardware industry cluster development can be divided into three types. First, Daxin Town, Zhangjiagang City, has a long history and a typical representative. It is an industrial satellite town in southern Jiangsu Province where township enterprises started earlier. The second is the industrial agglomeration type. The typical representative is Yongkang City in Zhejiang Province, which has an annual sales revenue of more than 100 billion yuan, which has become the pillar industry of the local area. The third is the market development type. The typical representative is Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. After years of development, it has formed an industrial group with locks and gas appliances as the leader and complete upstream and downstream products and various accessories. These three types of industrial clusters have their own advantages and characteristics. They not only make great contributions to the local government, but also play an important role in supporting the development of China's hardware industry and going abroad.

Development status and Prospect Analysis of hardware industry in 2020

As the world's largest steel producer and the world's most populous country, China has the advantages of low cost of raw materials and labor to manufacture hardware products. In recent years, China's export of hardware products has maintained a stable growth trend. China has become one of the world's major exporters of hardware products. It is estimated that the annual export volume will maintain a growth rate of 10-15% in the future.

In 2010, China's hardware industry recovered rapidly throughout the year. On the whole, the hardware industry is running well, the domestic and foreign sales are growing rapidly, the import and export are growing at a high speed, various economic indicators are rising rapidly, and the industry as a whole has basically recovered to the level before the financial crisis.

According to statistics, in 2010, there were 8811 Enterprises above designated scale in China's hardware industry, with a total industrial output value of 635.234 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 29.43%. It is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shandong, Jiangsu and Hebei provinces, with a total industrial output value of 474.128 billion yuan, accounting for 74.64% of the total output value of the whole industry.

The hardware industry has played a positive role in improving people's living standards and quality of life, constantly meeting the growing needs of people's material and cultural life, expanding domestic and foreign market demand and absorbing labor employment, and has played a positive role in accelerating the pace of industrialization and urbanization. In the process of realizing the grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way, it shoulders an important historical mission. During the 12th Five Year Plan period, China will change the development mode of the hardware industry. On the premise of saving resources, reducing consumption, protecting the environment and improving the quality and efficiency of economic growth, China will continue to maintain orderly, healthy and rapid growth of the industry, and strive to transform China from a big hardware manufacturing country to a strong hardware manufacturing country. It is estimated that the total industrial output value and industrial added value will increase by 10-12% annually during the 12th Five Year Plan period, and the industrial output value in 2015 will double that in 2010.

From January to December 2017, China's hardware industry realized a total import and export volume of 128.020 billion US dollars, with a year-on-year growth of 9.43%. After experiencing the negative growth in 2016, the foreign trade of the industry rebounded significantly in 2017, increased by 16.41 percentage points compared with the same period of the previous year.

In the same period of 2016, the total foreign trade surplus increased by 20.04% to US $10.478 billion over the same period of 2016, with a positive growth rate of US $10.478 billion compared with the same period in 2016, and the total foreign trade surplus increased by 10.478% over the same period of 2016, which was significantly higher than that of 2016.

Import and export of China's hardware industry in 2016-2017 (US $100 million)

China is one of the largest hardware producing countries in the world, and has become a big hardware processing and export country in the world, with broad market and consumption potential. With the development of social economy, hardware industry in the new situation, cluster development also has obvious characteristics. Hardware industry needs to gradually establish its own independent technology innovation system. To develop new product projects, we must cross the stage of imitating foreign products. Only when we independently develop new hardware products that are not available at home and abroad, can we truly innovate our products and occupy the international market and strive to open up the domestic and international markets of hardware products.