Four core points of Chinese LED industrial structure

China's LED industry has begun to take shape, and entered a period of rapid development. LED industry annual sales revenue of more than 150 billion yuan, the output growth of nearly 50%, more than 8000 enterprises engaged in LED industry, has formed a wide range of epitaxial and chip manufacturing, packaging and application of industrial chain. At the same time, the industry is also facing the patent standard system is not complete, the grim pattern of industrial policy is not perfect, the key technology of heteronomy. If we do not take effective measures, we will miss the opportunity of development and lag behind the developed countries in the new round of industrial competition. China should speed up the improvement of the industrial environment and give full play to the guiding role of the government.

(1) to seize the key, vigorously develop the Patent Standard System

LED epitaxial wafer and chip is the core component of the LED industry, accounting for about 70% of the profits of the LED industry chain, but also the most concentrated patent competition, the most intense aspects. Chinese LED epitaxial chip lack of core patents, especially for high-power epitaxial chip used in LED lighting are CREE, OSRAM and other manufacturers monopoly, the patent problem has become the core problem of restricting the development of LED industry China. To achieve breakthroughs in core technologies, the need to strengthen top-level design, industry oriented common key technologies and key products, to the advantage of the unit for the trust, the establishment of an open, industry and research with a combination of technological innovation platform. To strengthen the construction of standardization of LED lighting products, give full play to all aspects of the relevant standards organizations, associations, research institutions such as the role of the formation of independent intellectual property rights technology innovation system and standard system.

(two) standardize the market, establish and improve the system of product supervision

On the current market, LED lighting products, false propaganda, index confusion, product safety issues, resulting in poor quality products through unfair competition, a large number of occupation of the market, there is an urgent need to establish effective supervision mechanism to regulate the market environment of products. This needs to play the role of departments in charge of industry, establish and improve the market access system, improve industry access standards, regularly released to the market performance and safety index of high quality LED lighting products, to promote the elimination of inferior products; construction of LED lighting products testing services to the public platform, provide standards, product testing, certification, brand promotion and other professional service; enhance the product standards compliance testing, accelerate the construction of national LED device, light source detection mechanism, improve the detection level and service ability.

(three) control costs, accelerate the upgrading of the core competitiveness of enterprises

Chinese LED enterprises are facing pressure to reduce costs and lower prices. Cost pressures from two aspects, one is difficult to compensate for the income gap between the cost of energy-saving products between LED lighting and traditional lighting; on the other hand the source of technology monopoly in foreign minority enterprises, most of the products profit by a few upstream manufacturers, and most of the downstream enterprises Chinese lacks the capacity to product pricing. It is suggested that the enterprise should establish a series of high value-added products by improving the investment, research and development, transformation and application mechanism of technological innovation, and establish a technological innovation system with the enterprise as the main body, the market as the guidance, and the combination of production, learning and research.

(four) reasonable guidance, beware of overheating investment and excess capacity

LED lighting products because of its price is too high, uneven quality and other factors, the market potential in the short term is difficult to completely broke out, and many investors, manufacturers have begun large-scale investment and expansion, and even some county government departments in the construction of LED industrial park. Investment overheating resulting in rapid expansion of production capacity, the industry chain upstream and downstream overcapacity. In the case of the current LED chip core patents are controlled by a small number of foreign manufacturers, the blind expansion of production capacity will fall into the homogenization of competition, leading to decline in profits or even large-scale losses. To solve these problems, we should optimize the government and the market mechanism of effective cooperation, as far as possible to reduce the risk of excess production capacity and negative effects. On the one hand to adjust the industry structure, and actively promote the excess industry structure adjustment and upgrade and eliminate backward production capacity; on the other hand, to speed up the upgrading of industry innovation capability, vigorously promote the construction of innovation system, improve the independent innovation system with enterprises as the main body.