Lock industry, the metal products industry in both traditional and emerging industries, said it traditional lock products have a long history of manufacturing and the use of time; said it emerging, lock products innovation, absorbing the use of new technologies to meet the new era consumer lock products use the function, appearance, design requirements, to protect people's lives and property as well as the people of the normal order of life has played the role of escort.

In recent years, the lock industry showed rapid growth momentum especially concern. Currently, industry sales of about 40 billion yuan, the production of 1.9 billion. According to customs statistics, the lock industry in the "Eleventh Five-Year" period, the average annual export growth of 31%, twice the speed of the hardware industry average. From 2006 to 2008, that is, before the financial crisis, the total export of lock products were $ 1.516 billion, $ 1.963 billion and $ 3.589 billion, the growth rate reached 27.3%, 29.5% and 82.2%. This can be seen, the the lock industry exports reached a new peak in 2008. But in 2009, due to the impact of the global financial crisis, locks exports also appear a certain degree of decline, locks in 2009 exports of $ 2.995 billion, down 16.6%. In 2010, with the foreign financial situation improved, locks exports reached $ 4.003 billion, and only restored to pre-crisis level of exports, but also growth. In the first half of 2011, the locks exports of $ 2.082 billion, a year-on-year growth of 15.9%, basis of this calculation, the annual export volume is expected to exceed the overall level of the previous year. Only five years, lock products exports increased by $ 1.516 billion to over 40 billion U.S. dollars, and still maintained a momentum of rapid growth, we have reason to have a high degree of confidence in the future development of the industry, locks the market is still huge room for development.

However, due to the lack of brand and channel, domestic enterprises only orders production delivery products sell to do not know, do not know how much to sell, sell what I do not know. Do not understand the end-market demand, led to the the passive production and low efficiency. So this kind of malpractice, we must change. Import side, imports of lock products from 2006 to 2008, respectively, to reach $ 321 million, $ 340 million, $ 393 million, the growth rate was 34.9%, 5.92% and 15.6%, respectively. In 2009, locks imports by the impact of the financial crisis, imports amounted to $ 369 million, down 6.1%. Locks imports amounted to $ 504 million, an increase of 36.6% in 2010. In the first half of 2011, locks imports $ 273 million, a year-on-year growth of 16.2%, the annual import volume is expected to reach $ 550 million. Speed ​​of imports on the rise, more and more Chinese high-end market products abroad, domestic products because of the brand can not enter the domestic high-end market.

Lock industry, hardware industry as a whole is also faced with the following problem:

The extensive mode of development, backward technology, the product of serious excess capacity, low-end products, less high-end products, product quality is unstable and is still a gap with the developed countries, the lack of a high standard, high efficiency, lack of core technology and independent intellectual property rights, the lack of well-known brand in the world, in short, the lack of core competitiveness and international market-driven capabilities.

Number of small-scale enterprises, the corporate structure is irrational, unreasonable product structure, did not fully play an exemplary role in the lead role. This phenomenon does not change, the future will not be sustainable development. Before the meeting, I visited Plum Suochang. Plum transformation through the automatic assembly line, so that labor productivity increased by 600%.

Equipment investment of 180,000 yuan a year to a year and a half, will be able to recover the cost of investment in equipment. At the same time, the introduction of automation equipment, also brings a stable improvement of product quality.
Need to adjust the product structure. Padlock technical content, process and product prices are not high, should enrich the product line, the production of high value-added lock products.
To solve these problems, the China National Hardware Association in 2012 asked the following priorities:

A product quality, increase the intensity of technological transformation. Good product quality must rely on state-of-the-art equipment, which is the necessary condition to ensure the quality of the product;

Second, the brand-building. The lock industry, but also to carry out the assessment work of the top ten lock king "of the lock industry, to promote the visibility of enterprise and industry, to do a bit of foreshadowing role for our brand building, channel construction, the aim is to improve their visibility;

Third, technological innovation;

Fourth, efforts to foster industrial clusters increase. So that the development of our industry through the development of industrial clusters, increase internal connotation of industrial clusters to enhance to promote the development of our industry, so that you can enjoy the benefits of development of industrial clusters;

, Construction sales platform, and expand domestic and foreign markets, to be walking on two legs, balanced development.