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According to the established goals of the "Thirteenth Five Year Plan for the Development of the Lighting Appliance Industry", effectively promote the transformation of industry production, deepen supply side reform, and promote the stable and healthy development of China's lighting appliance industry. At the same time, it has also made due contributions to the solid implementation of the "six stability" work and the comprehensive implementation of the "six guarantees" task by the end of the 13th Five Year Plan period. In 2020, great historical achievements were made in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and a decisive victory was achieved in the battle against poverty. Now, we are standing at the historical intersection of the two centenary goals, and a new journey of comprehensively building a socialist modernized country is about to begin. Recalling the past, realizing grand plans. This article provides a brief review of the development achievements of the lighting appliance industry during the 13th Five Year Plan period.

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The scale of the industry continues to expand

In 2020, the sales revenue of China's lighting appliance industry was approximately 602.5 billion yuan. Over the past five years, the cumulative sales revenue of the entire industry has been about 2.9 trillion yuan, an increase of 25.59% compared to the 12th Five Year Plan period. From the changes in industry revenue from 2010 to 2020, it can be seen that the entire industry was still in a period of medium to high growth during the 12th Five Year Plan period, and the growth rate tended to be flat during the 13th Five Year Plan period, entering a period of stable development. In the future, more emphasis will be placed on high-quality development.

In 2020, the entire industry achieved exports of 52.6 billion US dollars, setting a new historical high. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the cumulative export value of the entire industry was about 220 billion US dollars, an increase of 27.09% compared to the 12th Five Year Plan period. The lighting appliance industry continued to develop steadily during the 13th Five Year Plan period.

In the past five years, the transformation and upgrading of traditional production areas in the lighting industry such as Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Fujian have achieved significant results. The production and export strength of various LED lighting products continues to increase, while new industrial clusters have also flourished. With the development of LED lighting technology, thousands of LED lighting enterprises have emerged in Shenzhen, becoming a new force in the lighting industry; Jiangxi Province continues to increase the cultivation of the LED industry, and a large number of LED upstream and midstream enterprises have settled in Jiangxi; Guangdong ancient towns, Jiangsu Gaoyou and other industry characteristic areas have grown vigorously, forming industry characteristic clusters such as lighting and street lamp manufacturing, expanding the overall strength of the industry.

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Structural adjustment yields results

Overall, during the 13th Five Year Plan period, the lighting appliance industry has achieved significant results in gradually phasing out low-end and energy consuming products and adjusting product structure.

LED lighting products have made significant progress, and the proportion of production and sales of various LED lighting products has further increased. LED lighting products such as LED tube lights, LED flat lights, and LED ceiling lights have experienced rapid development during the 13th Five Year Plan period. At the end of the 13th Five Year Plan period, the sales of LED lighting products in China exceeded 400 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of over 100% compared to the end of 2015; The sales proportion of LED lighting products has increased from 30% in 2015 to over 60% by the end of 2020; The export value of LED lighting products exceeded 30 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of about 178% compared to the end of 2015. The proportion of export value increased from about 25% at the end of 2015 to over 65% in 2020. By the end of the 13th Five Year Plan period, LED replacement light sources had accounted for over 50% of the total production of electric light sources and over 60% of the export volume of electric light sources.

With the rapid development of LED lighting products, the production and export volume of traditional electric light sources such as incandescent lamps and fluorescent lamps continue to decrease. Compared to the end of the 12th Five Year Plan, the production of incandescent lamps decreased by about 500 million units and the export volume decreased by more than 148 million units in the end of the 13th Five Year Plan; The production of fluorescent lamps decreased by more than 2 billion units year-on-year, and the export volume decreased by about 1.9 billion units year-on-year; The production of high-intensity gas discharge lamps decreased by about 150 million units year-on-year, and the export volume decreased by more than 50 million units year-on-year; The production of tungsten halogen lamps decreased by about 800 million units year-on-year, and the export volume decreased by more than 300 million units year-on-year.

During the 13th Five Year Plan period, China's lighting industry accelerated the adjustment of its industry structure, gradually transforming from a simple lighting product manufacturing industry to a comprehensive industry that integrates light sources, lamps, power supplies, supporting facilities, accessories, lighting design, engineering construction and installation, and cross-border integration.

The industry is developing towards segmented fields, intelligent products, and high added value products, striving to meet the people's demand for healthy lighting. In terms of application segmentation, we have focused on developing segmented markets for different application locations, such as landscape lighting, museum lighting, and industrial lighting; In terms of functional segmentation, technologies in intelligent lighting, agricultural lighting, automotive lighting, off grid lighting, and other fields have been deeply developed to meet the diverse needs of the lighting market; In addition, during the 13th Five Year Plan period, the lighting industry proposed the concept of developing "people-oriented lighting", which further meets the people's demand for a healthy lighting environment and has spurred the emergence of a series of healthy lighting products.

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The development strength of the enterprise has been enhanced

According to incomplete statistics, during the 13th Five Year Plan period, the number of lighting related enterprises in China exceeded 20000. The development momentum of enterprises is rapid, and their economic strength is increasing day by day. Through various means such as restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions, reorganizations, and the introduction of social capital, enterprises have made up for their shortcomings, expanded production capacity, expanded channels, and built brands, continuously enhancing their comprehensive strength. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the number of lighting companies listed on the stock market has significantly increased. As of 2020, the total number of lighting related companies listed on the A-share and Hong Kong stock markets is about 110. More than 10 lighting related production companies, such as OPPO, Xingyu, Mulinsen, Sanan, and Bull, have annual revenues close to or exceeding RMB 5 billion, and more than 60 lighting related companies have annual revenues exceeding RMB 1 billion. In the past five years, domestic lighting companies have completed the acquisition and integration of well-known foreign brands, further expanding the strength of China's lighting industry. At the same time, a group of small, unique, and sophisticated small giant enterprises have emerged in segmented markets and professional technologies. Enterprises attach great importance to and actively invest in the research and development activities of new products, and have made varying degrees of technological progress in product intelligence, equipment automation, production efficiency, original design, and other aspects. They have made significant progress in the automation level of lighting product production, product types, and lamp integration. Enterprises are transforming and upgrading from single product manufacturing to service-oriented manufacturing enterprises that can provide system solutions such as design, manufacturing, and installation. The industry focuses on brand building, and the strength of national brands is gradually strengthening.

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Further enhancement of technological innovation strength

During the 13th Five Year Plan period, industry enterprises will pay more attention to increasing research and development investment, with some large and medium-sized enterprises in the lighting industry investing more than 2% of their main business income in research and development. The innovation capability of the industry has been enhanced, and dozens of lighting companies have won various important honors such as the National Science and Technology Progress Award, China Patent Award, China Light Industry Federation Technology Invention Award, Science and Technology Progress Award, and China International Lighting Fixture Design Competition. Nearly 60 technologies from over 60 lighting related enterprises have been recognized with national level scientific and technological progress awards, patent awards, and other awards.

Under the macro background of the country actively promoting the integration of industrialization and industrialization, the lighting appliance industry cooperates with the Internet and the Internet of Things industry and actively practices cross-border integrated development. The application of products and technologies such as indoor intelligent lighting and multifunctional lamp posts promotes the extension and development of the lighting appliance industry in the field of the Internet of Things; The discovery of the third visual nerve in the biomedical field provides a new technological research direction for achieving "light health" through lighting products. Key technologies such as digitization, intelligence, and health are the main directions for cross industry innovation in the lighting appliance industry, practicing the development concept of "people-oriented".

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Progress has been made in quality and standardization work

During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the National Technical Committee for Standardization of Lighting Appliances completed and released 38 national standards, including 19 related to LED lighting; 10 industry standards, including 2 related to LED lighting. Based on the release and implementation of standards, combined with the fourth phase of the international cooperation project of the "China Green Lighting Project", the industry has focused on improving the quality of LED lighting products. The performance of the main LED lighting products has gradually improved, and the quality pass rate has continued to increase. The national lottery results show that the quality level of LED lighting products has increased from about 80% during the 12th Five Year Plan period to about 90% during the 13th Five Year Plan period.

With the progress of standardization work reform, the supply mode of standards has undergone profound changes after the introduction of the new Standardization Law. The standardization work of the lighting industry and related fields is very active. Several Chinese lighting industry experts from Shanghai Times Light Lighting Appliance Testing Co., Ltd., National Electric Light Source Quality Supervision and Inspection Center (Beijing) and other institutions have undertaken the drafting and formulation of relevant standards of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), laying the foundation for promoting innovative development, improving product quality, and enhancing international competitiveness.

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International influence is increasingly strengthening

During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the international exchange of China's lighting appliance industry has been further strengthened. Chinese lighting companies actively participate in overseas exhibitions, and the internationalization pace of the industry's "going global" is accelerating. More and more companies are strategically planning their global layout with a business perspective. Chinese companies have become an important exhibitor group in international lighting exhibitions held in countries such as the United States, Europe, India, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea. Especially at the Frankfurt International Lighting Exhibition, the world's largest and most influential professional lighting exhibition, the number and scale of Chinese companies participating in the exhibition have increased year by year during the 13th Five Year Plan period, making them the countries with the most participation in the exhibition.

With further exchanges between China's lighting industry and the world's lighting industry, numerous important international collaborations and activities in the lighting industry continue to be carried out in China. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the international cooperation project launched by the National Development and Reform Commission, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Global Environment Facility in the field of green lighting - China's "Promoting the Conversion of Semiconductor Lighting Market and Promoting Energy saving and Environmental Protection New Light Source Project" - has ended as scheduled. This project has effectively promoted the widespread application of high-quality and efficient semiconductor lighting products in China by enhancing the market conversion capability of semiconductor lighting products, achieving energy conservation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and promoting energy conservation and emission reduction in the global lighting industry.

In 2019, the 83rd International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Congress was held in Shanghai. During the conference, various technical committees and sub technical committees related to lighting held relevant meetings. About 10 representatives from the Chinese lighting industry, including Shanghai Times Light Lighting Appliance Testing Co., Ltd., National Electric Light Source Quality Supervision and Inspection Center (Beijing), Xinnuofei (China) Investment Co., Ltd., OPPO Lighting Co., Ltd., Foshan Electric Lighting Co., Ltd., and Luchuan Jinyu Electronic Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., attended the lighting related technology sub conference and presented their opinions representing the Chinese lighting industry at the conference.

During the 13th Five Year Plan period, China's lighting industry held important positions in several international lighting organizations, undertaking corresponding international exchanges and communication work. Chen Yansheng, Chairman of the China Lighting Electrical Appliances Association, has been elected twice as Vice Chairman of the Global Lighting Association.

Ms. Hao Luoxi, a professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University, director of the Lighting Engineering Working Committee of the China Lighting Association, and vice chairman of the China Lighting Society, has been elected as the vice chairman of the Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage.

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Industry vitality is increasing day by day

In the past five years, with the continuous improvement of enterprise strength, the vitality of the industry has also been increasing. Local industry organizations, media, and architectural design and construction units actively carry out various academic, exhibition, and commercial activities, jointly promoting information exchange and cooperation between industry, academia, and research in product innovation, design application, cross-border integration, market expansion, talent cultivation, and other aspects.

The enterprise actively fulfills its social responsibilities and actively participates in social welfare activities by donating lighting products for teenagers to learn, transforming the lighting environment of classrooms in remote areas, caring for the visual health of the elderly, and assisting in the use of ultraviolet disinfection and sterilization supplies for epidemic prevention and control. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the China Lighting and Electrical Appliances Association called on and organized lighting companies to carry out classroom lighting renovation projects, with a total of over 10000 classrooms and tens of thousands of donated lighting products of various types.

Press Conference on the Demonstration Project of Lighting Improvement in Primary and Secondary School Buildings in the Central and Western Regions of China Photography Association

In 2020, the COVID-19 will break out in the global lighting industry and the whole industry will actively invest in epidemic prevention, actively carry out production recovery and actively donate. According to incomplete statistics, industry enterprises have provided assistance to domestic epidemic prevention and control through various forms, donated nearly 500000 pieces of various epidemic prevention materials, and provided cash and various donated materials totaling about 100 million yuan.

The professional and technical disciplines related to lighting have received attention from higher education and vocational colleges in various regions, with the addition of subject content, the expansion of enrollment ratios, and the cultivation of reserve forces for the industry. In addition, with the development of new media and self media, more industry organizations and experts are actively speaking out within and outside the industry, further enhancing the social awareness of the lighting appliance industry.

Only by showing great plans can one be full of ambition and carry forward the past to open up the future. The development and changes of the lighting industry during the 13th Five Year Plan period are the fruits of a series of practical measures taken by the industry to adjust its supply side structure from scale and speed to high-quality development. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the development of the lighting industry has shown sustained momentum. Looking ahead to the 14th Five Year Plan, China's lighting and electrical industry will aim to build a new development pattern of "dual circulation", characterized by high quality, excellent structure, significant benefits, and emphasis on safety, to construct a modern lighting power with high quality, and ultimately serve the second centenary goal to be achieved as scheduled.

Title: Reviewing the Development Achievements of China's Lighting Appliance Industry in the 13th Five Year Plan and Embarking on a New Journey in the 14th Five Year Plan

Article source: [WeChat official account: China Lighting Appliance Association]