Guangdong: Developing LEDs to Promote Applications

LED is a new generation of light source products with high efficiency, energy saving and environmental protection. As a promising emerging industry, it has quickly become the focus of international technological economic competition in recent years. The Guangdong provincial party committee and government attached great importance to the development of the LED industry and clearly defined the LED industry as one of the three strategic and emerging industries with a focus on nurturing and development. It also carried out a series of planning, investment, technical research, promotion and application. Advance deployment will promote the rapid growth of the LED industry. In 2010, the LED industry in Guangdong achieved an output value of 85.3 billion yuan. In 2011, it achieved an output value of 150 billion yuan, and the compound annual growth rate in the last three years was as high as 80%.

As early as in 2008, Guangdong actively responded to the call of the country and launched the demonstration project of “1000 Miles” LED street lamp. It has built a total mileage of 1500 kilometers and a scale of 100,000 miles in Guangzhou, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhongshan, Zhaoqing and Shantou. Street lamp demonstration promotion project. In 2011, Guangdong Province also initiated the construction of LED lighting demonstration projects for new expressways such as Guangzhou (Changzhou) Lechang (Chang) and Bo (Luo) Shenzhen (Shenzhen), etc., to promote the development of applications, and to create LED industry clusters in a systematic and planned way. .

Starting from application promotion, Guangdong Province has successively introduced and implemented a series of special policies to build a relatively sound semiconductor lighting industry policy support system. The “Guangdong Province LED Industry Development Plan” proposes that 30 million indoor LED lights will be promoted during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, and subsidies will be provided at a proportion of 30% to 50% in the community construction to guide residents to purchase LED lights and fully pull. LED industry development.

In terms of financial support, Guangdong Province’s “Opinions on Implementing the State Council’s Deployment to Accelerate the Cultivation and Development of Strategic Emerging Industries” pointed out that during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the Guangdong provincial government has invested 22 billion yuan to support the development of strategic emerging industries. Some funds set up strategic special funds for the development of emerging industries, focusing on supporting high-end new electronic information, new energy vehicles, semiconductor lighting three major industries.

In terms of technical research and standard formulation, the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Quality Supervision and the Provincial Department of Science and Technology jointly issued the first "LED Lighting Industry Standard System Planning and Roadmap" in 2011. Guangdong will take the lead in establishing more than 130 items of LED in 5 years. Local standards, including LED product classification and coding specifications, LED fluorescent tube product standards, etc.

In response to the rapid technological advances in emerging industries, the emergence of new high-tech LED products immediately establishes standards and seizes opportunities in the international market. At the same time, the Science and Technology Department of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Department also gave full play to the leverage of financial special funds and focused on supporting new key technologies such as solid micro-zone laser stripping equipment and metal-based vertical structure high-power LED chips to break through foreign blockades or fill domestic gaps. To seize the technological commanding heights of industrial development.

Li Xinghua, director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, frankly stated that there are still many common problems that have constrained the development of the LED industry in Guangdong. In the aspect of technological innovation, although the technological innovation points and breakthrough points in the upstream links such as epitaxial chips have increased year by year, the overall technological level of the industry has yet to be improved, and core equipment and key technologies need to accelerate breakthroughs. In the marketing segment, the business model of LED demonstration projects still needs to be improved, and the traditional pattern of interests needs to be broken. Regarding quality standards, it is necessary to further innovate ideas, explore new methods such as establishing benchmarking indices, and strengthen product quality control. In the next step, Guangdong should fully understand the confidence and determination to promote LED lighting products, do a good job in the overall design of industrial development, and focus on supporting the key technology of LED core with new technology routes, and vigorously promote the new "contract energy management + supply chain + finance" Business model to expand the LED market scale, and promote Guangdong from LED province to LED province.