From closed-door manufacturing to reform and opening up, from the planned economy to the market economy, the non-state-owned economy from the state-owned system, the pan-rice, to the private sector has flourished. In the past 30 years, the Chinese hardware industry has gone from scratch, from fixed-point production to everywhere, starting from a difficult time. To the rapid development of the road to development. No matter whether it is a privately-owned hardware manufacturing enterprise that started from scratch or a private capital that is entered after the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, its rapid development has proved that hardware, a highly competitive and labor-intensive industry, can only be achieved through close integration with the market economy system and the private system. Bring new life to your own soaring and development.

Reform Brings New Life to Hardware Industry

According to estimates of Luo Baihui, secretary-general of the International Die & Metals & Plastics Industry Suppliers Association, from the initial industry “Millions of Armies to today’s more than 20 million production employees, over 40,000 enterprises above designated size, and more than 10 sales from 1988. From 8,000 companies to 10,000 companies today, more than 20 companies have achieved sales of 1 billion yuan.... The changes brought to the Chinese hardware industry are tantamount to loosening the bondage of the shackles, and the development of the industry is the same. The galloping horses are brave enough to move forward.The hardware industry companies are becoming stronger, bigger, specialized, and refined, adjusting product, industry and ownership structure, promoting technological innovation, implementing brand strategy, transforming the mode of economic growth, establishing distinctive regions, and expanding international Cooperation, communication, etc., have made remarkable achievements. At present, China's hardware products industry accounted for 20% of sales exceeding 100 million yuan, while in 1988 only Sanhuan, Zhang Xiaoquan, Guli, Great Wall Precision, Wendeng The sales of 14 companies such as Wei Li exceeded 100 million yuan; the product variety also increased from more than 40 kinds in 1984 to more than 10,000 kinds now.

According to statistics, in the 1984 of last century, there were only 40 kinds of hardware products and less than 500 varieties. Today, products have exploded explosively to more than 10,000 products, while product varieties have reached 40,000 species, which is 20 times the past. The product categories have been increased from the traditional natural hardware, construction hardware, and tool hardware of the past to the 10 major categories of products. New types of shower rooms, gas appliances, smoke-absorbing fumes, kitchen equipment, and cooking appliances have been newly added. Even traditional tools have added many varieties of decorations, gardening tools, etc. that are only found in modern life.

At the same time, there has been a substantial change in sales patterns in the hardware industry. In Luo Baihui's view, today's hardware product market has evolved from a single hardware distribution system during the planned economy to a variety of sales channels: large-scale hardware professional markets, corporate brand franchise stores, and the latest network Marketing model. The hardware specialty market can even be said to be a subversive change because no matter from the perspective of scale or scope, it has never been done before the reform and opening up. These large-scale professional hardware markets are located in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Wuhan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Chengdu. It should be said that the professional hardware market is separated from the integrated market and it is the market's maturity and development needs.

International status is increasing

Over the past 30 years of reform and opening up, especially in the last 20 years, the number, scale, product variety, management, and quality of brands in China's hardware products industry, as well as brand influence, have all significantly increased, and the gap with the world has continued to narrow. Products even exceed international standards. According to statistics, in 1988, the export value of China's hardware products was only 800 million U.S. dollars, but today it has reached 30 to 40 billion U.S. dollars, 40 to 50 times that of 20 years ago.

As early as 1999, based on considerations of safety and technological progress, the Chinese hardware industry pioneered the elimination of in-line gas water heaters in the industry, thereby advancing the pace of industrial restructuring of the entire industry with technological advancements. Later, under the leadership of the China Hardware Products Association, pressure cookers, faucets, range hoods, tools, locks, and other products have gradually increased the elimination of backward products by adopting new standards. Take the lock as an example, the product realizes the transition from the initial padlock to the handle door lock to the mechanical and electronic integrated lock, the electronic lock to the fingerprint lock and the remote-controlled lock. Since 2001, China International Hardware Exhibition has successfully held 8 sessions. The exhibition area also extends 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 first professional exhibition in Asia and the second in the world. In the process of economic globalization, Chinese hardware has become an indispensable and important role in the world of hardware.

30 years of Chinese hardware, is boldly created for 30 years, the hardware industry has opened up a new world after another: the birth of gas water heater is a creation; the courage to self-denial, eliminate in-line water heater is a creation; named characteristics of the region, the first time to open the area The economic gate is creation; by taking shape of the convention and exhibition economy, it is in line with the world, joining the World Hardware Federation, and securing the World Hardware Conference in China, which is a pioneering move...

Summarizing the development of the industry during the past 30 years of reform and opening up, the Chinese hardware industry has made remarkable achievements, but some high-end products still rely heavily on imports. In the next step, under the guidance of the scientific concept of development, the industry will achieve quantitative expansion and qualitative improvement, and realize the transformation of added value.