Analysis: Status Quo of Market Competitiveness of China's Lock Industry

This year, the China National Hardware Association fundraising entrusted the National Quality Supervision and Inspection Center for Daily Use Metal Products to investigate the quality of the lock products sold in major cities across the country. 49 sets of samples were purchased in more than 20 markets in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Guangdong. The production areas include 30 in Guangdong, 16 in Zhejiang, 2 in Shanghai, and 1 in Shandong; the product categories include marble padlocks and marble inserts. Door locks, ball locks, bicycle locks, mechanical anti-theft locks. The association hopes to find some problems in the development of the lock industry through this survey.

According to Zhang Dongli, the chairman of the China Hardware Products Association, this is the first time the association conducted quality checks and "consultation". The survey results fully reflect the current level of quality and problems in the sale of lock products, and will also be in the hardware. Product industry systems conduct random inspections of major commodity systems to guide the industry to “focus on connotation and improve quality.” During the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, it will accelerate the “Five Transformations” target proposed by the association.

It is funded by industry associations and entrusted with authoritative professional organizations to conduct product quality surveys in the industry. In the current industrial sector, industry associations are still the first case. This not only embodies the service consciousness of the China Hardware Products Association that truly serves the industry, but also reflects the association's sense of social responsibility and the overall situation. It reflects the attitude of being responsible to consumers, responsible to the company, and promoting the sustainable development of the industry.

China's most important lock production base is concentrated in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shandong and other places. In the product category, padlocks, ball locks, handle locks, etc. still have a large market space, bicycle locks, motorcycle locks, car locks and special-purpose locks products are also changing with the development of upstream products, fingerprint locks, smart locks The building walkie-talkie has become an indispensable functional product in modern society.

At present, China's lock industry has annual sales of about 40 billion yuan and output of 1.9 billion. According to customs statistics, the average annual export growth rate of the lock industry in the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period reached 31%, which is 2 times the average growth rate of the hardware industry. In the first half of 2011, the value of locks exports was 2.082 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 15.9% year-on-year. Based on this calculation, the annual export value was about 4.6 billion U.S. dollars; the import value of locks was 273 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 16.2% year-on-year. It will reach 550 million U.S. dollars.

The increase in the import volume of the lock industry and the growing demand for high-end products in the domestic market have enabled more and more international brands to enter the Chinese market, which will bring enormous challenges to domestic companies. However, there is still a considerable gap between the overall level of processing equipment in China's lock industry and the international advanced level. Middle and low-grade mechanical locks are still the main products, and there is a lack of high-level scientific and technological talents and managerial talents. The ability of enterprises to resist risks is insufficient. To this end, China's lock-making enterprises should actively adopt new processes, new materials, new technologies, and new equipment to improve the overall level of the industry. We must pay attention to the quality of our products, make greater efforts in improving the management level of enterprises, eliminating outdated production techniques, and improving the quality of employees, and use hard products to meet the challenges.

The lock industry must increase its efforts in many aspects in order to improve its international competitiveness. With the increase in consumer demand for high-tech and intelligent lock products such as biometrics and electronic technologies, lock companies must seize opportunities, market-oriented, adjust and optimize product mix, and seize high-end lock product markets; , high value-added door locks and commercial locks as the focus of research and development, increase material, technology, and technical integration with international standards; vigorously carry out scientific and technological research, improve the lock intelligent, information, electronic, mechanical and electrical integration, Advanced technologies such as biometric computer technology are grafted onto lock products; they must work hard on independent intellectual property rights to form their own core technologies and patents; aim at international advanced level; accelerate new product development through integrated innovation and introduction, digestion, and absorption and innovation. Progress; refer to international advanced standards, support product standards that are compatible with new product development; adopt effective means and effective measures to speed up the conversion of scientific and technological achievements; implement brand strategy, further increase brand awareness, pay close attention to quality management, and cultivate a batch of Excellent quality, certain in domestic and foreign markets Influential brand locks.

Zhang Dongli, chairman of the China Hardware Products Association, stressed at the lock quality analysis demonstration meeting that the lock industry and enterprises should have a clear understanding of the problems found in the lock product quality survey. “Quality Industrial, Strong Quality Enterprise” should rise to the industry. The height of development strategy. The industry and enterprises must establish a fine idea, and implement the concept of fine arts production, fine management, quality win, and high quality and high price to each link of production, sales, and service. Through the production of high-quality lock products in the world, the impact and competitiveness of China's locks will be raised in an all-round manner, which in turn will promote China's transformation from a lock manufacturing giant to a manufacturing powerhouse.

According to the results of the market quality investigation and analysis, this meeting also selected and announced the list of “China Lock Product Quality Enterprise”. They are: Yantai Sanhuan Lock Group Co., Ltd., Guangdong Yajie Hardware Co., Ltd., Zhongshan Huafeng Lock Co., Ltd., Guangdong Guli Security Products Co., Ltd., Guangdong Mingmen Lock Industry Co., Ltd., Wenzhou Universal Lock Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Zhongli Group Co., Ltd.

These enterprises have grasped the management and internal skills, established a brand image with the outside world, continuously developed new products and new technologies, continuously expanded brand awareness and product reputation, and maintained strong competitiveness in the domestic and foreign markets. On many levels, many companies tend to take into account the immediate interests and neglect the long-term development. It is impossible to win international competition before they have strong power to formulate rules that are beneficial to them.

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