Visible hand leveraging Guangdong LED industry into a virtuous circle

Guangdong's autumn is very beautiful. From the remote mountainous areas of Deqin to Shenzhen, Dongguan and other developed areas, 800 thousand LED street lights lit up the 20 thousand km road, the about 2000000 LED indoor lights lit thousands of households.

As the domestic LED industry leader in the first half of this year, the total output value of Guangdong's LED industry exceeded 125 billion yuan, an increase of nearly 30%. Whether it is the size of the industry or the size of the application, continue to rank first in the country.

Green, energy saving, environmental protection LED industry, is one of the three major breakthroughs in the development of strategic emerging industries in Guangdong Province, but also an important means to promote energy saving and emission reduction in this province. We hope that through the exploration of LED, out of a strategic emerging industries with Guangdong characteristics of the road. Deputy director of the Guangdong provincial science and Technology Bureau, said Ye jing.

The visible hand

The day before, released by the semiconductor lighting industry in Guangdong Province joint innovation center on the "2013 2 quarter LED industry of Guangdong province monitoring report". The report shows that the first half of the Guangdong LED industry output value exceeded 125 billion yuan, exports, and other indicators of patent eye-catching performance: LED exports over 50 billion yuan; the number of patent applications over 40 thousand, accounting for 1/4; more than 3/4 leading enterprises to maintain rapid growth, improve the core competitiveness.

The development of LED industry is rapid, partly because Guangdong make full use of the country to promote independent innovation and cultivate new industries preferential policies, on the other hand because actively introduce new policies to support the development of LED industry. Innovation Center Director Gui Shirong said.

"Visible hand" leveraging is an important factor in the outbreak of the LED industry in Guangdong. Ye Jingtu introduced, in recent years, Guangdong province science and technology department is not behind the scenes, but the front catch LED industry, the core technology research and demonstration application "ends of breakthrough", in the upstream, key breakthrough MOCVD core equipment and key supporting materials, acquire independent intellectual property rights, to seize the commanding heights of industry; in the market application link the key to expand the public lighting field of LED products to promote the application of the scale, stimulating the rapid growth of the market.

It was also questioned, engage in emerging industries is a matter of the market, why the government to worry about? South Korea's emerging industries, for example, it is booming from the big consortium, the government initiative to promote the start. If there is no need for guidance and strong impetus, the market can so quickly accept LED products? People willing to use it? The fact that the development of new industries at home and abroad has proved that the hand of the government is indispensable. Chen Zhixiang, executive vice president of Guangdong light industry association.

It is in the visible hand of the push, from 39 billion in 2009, in recent years, the compound growth rate of Guangdong LED output value of more than 35%. Along with the further maturity of the industry, the future development of the overall development of the LED industry in Guangdong by the explosive growth in the past to the stage of rational growth, the quality of the development is expected to continue to improve. Chen Zhixiang said.

Collaborative innovation

In Guangdong LED Industry Development Summit Forum held recently, a number of LED in the field of major scientific research achievements focus on the release: TCL group, intelligent LCD TV R & D projects, make LED backlight life more than 50 thousand hours; Crystal Electronics high-power high brightness and high reliability LED flip chip package technology, to meet the high power and high the impact of the current chip and module preparation requirements.

These include the LED core technology achievements of the whole industry chain link, and the role of the joint innovation center of Guangdong semiconductor lighting industry inseparable.

"In the rapid development of Guangdong LED industry at the same time, is also facing two problems, one is the core technology and key equipment two is the market application of heteronomy, difficulty. As soon as possible to break through these two bottlenecks, it is necessary to form a mechanism of collaborative innovation. Innovation Center Director Gui Shirong said. September 2011, by the leading enterprises in Guangdong Province, universities, research institutes jointly set up a joint innovation center for semiconductor lighting industry came into being, began to build the industry chain covering all aspects of the LED industry innovation platform.

Ye Jingtu said the center for innovation in Guangdong province LED industry to carry out collaborative innovation, promote innovation chain, service chain, capital chain and the integration of the industry chain to explore a new path.

Get rid of barriers to promotion

This year, the steady recovery of the LED market in Guangdong. Guangdong province through policy guidance, demonstration and promotion and commercial operation, contract energy management and other innovative models, stimulating the LED consumer market, has achieved remarkable results.

In early 2008, Guangdong is the first in China to launch LED lighting demonstration project, has accumulated more than 800 thousand application of LED street lamp, indoor LED lighting products more than 2 million 100 thousand units, the overall efficiency of 55%, the cumulative electricity saving nearly 1 billion kwh. In May last year, the Guangdong provincial government issued the Guangdong province to promote the use of LED lighting product implementation plan, requiring 3 years of comprehensive application of LED lighting products in the field of public lighting.

But the actual promotion is not so simple. As a new type of light source, the promotion process of LED is bound to encounter many barriers, such as consumption habits, interests and so on. For example, LED relatively high cost of ordinary lamps, to popularize 2 million LED street lamp, the transformation of funds will be more than 6 billion yuan, the money come from?

In order to get rid of a series of barriers, Guangdong has created a new promotion model - contract energy management model. The core of the model lies in the sharing of benefits: the contract energy management company first out of funds, technology, equipment and services, but