The development history of China's LED lighting industry is only more than 20 years, but the speed of development is amazing, whether it is industrial scale, international status or product exports have undergone earth-shaking changes. In the first eight months of 2012, the total export volume of LED lighting lamps in China has reached 5163.896 million yuan, the highest in history.

At present, affected by the fact that domestic lighting lamps have not yet formally established a completely unified and standardized industry standard, there will always be problems and embarrassments in export business. One is the phenomenon of return and exchange caused by poor product quality, the other is patent disputes caused by intellectual property rights, and the other is unnecessary troubles caused by different business concepts.

It is worth affirming that with the steady development of the LED lighting industry, the proportion of exports will gradually increase, at the same time, high-end LED lighting will expand the proportion of export business, made in China and even China's original LED lighting will shine around the world.

China's LED lighting export development probably began in the 90 s of last century, has experienced three more obvious period.

The first period is the early development of the industry. Before 1990, LED lighting fixtures have been used overseas, and applications in mainland China have begun to appear, but rarely. In the 1990 s, with the rapid growth of the global information industry, new breakthroughs have emerged in LED materials and control technology, and the LED lighting application industry has begun to develop at a faster rate in the mainland. With the deepening of reform and opening up, LED lighting applications began to go abroad.

During this period, the export enterprises of LED lighting application products were mostly "three to one supplement" enterprises, mainly concentrated in Guangdong areas with earlier reform and opening up, such as Dongguan and Zhongshan. The export products were relatively single, mainly single and double color LED lighting lamps. The export was mainly through foreign trade companies, which responded slowly to the international market and the export scale was also very small. However, the growth rate during this period is relatively fast. According to statistics from relevant agencies, in the late 1990 s, China's LED lighting market has maintained rapid growth, with an annual growth rate of more than 30%, and product exports have also increased with the development of the domestic market. LED lighting has gradually become one of the mainstream products in the field of flat panel display, and the LED lighting industry has gradually become an emerging high-tech industry.

The second period is 2000-2005, which is a steady growth period for the export industry of LED lighting applications. In 2000, LED lighting application products began to be exported on a large scale. During this period, there was a certain specialized division of labor within the industry, LED display technology continued to innovate, new products continued to appear, application areas increased, and product prices declined significantly. Export applications are mainly for outdoor advertising, sports and other industries, products in addition to single-color LED lighting, full-color LED lighting began to gradually popularize, and occupy a large proportion. The LED lighting lamps provided by Zhengzhou Zhongyuan display for the Sydney Olympic Games have become one of the representative projects of this period. According to the statistics of the industry association, the export industry of LED lighting application products is growing at a rate of 15%.

The third period is from 2005 to the present. The export industry of LED lighting application products has expanded, and a number of export enterprises with a certain scale have emerged. During this period, more and more LED lighting manufacturers to the international market, LED lighting applications export products more diversified, Senior high school low-end products to adapt to the different needs of the international market, the box-based full-color LED lighting has become the mainstream, product applications have also greatly expanded, including advertising, sports, leasing, performing arts, traffic instructions, finance and so on. In particular, international large-scale events, including sports events and international * * pieces, etc., China's LED lighting products directly appear with their own brand product image and are widely praised.

Industrial scale: steady rise

since December 2008, the export tax rebate rate of domestic LED lighting products has been adjusted from 13% to 14%. In June 2009, the Chinese government raised the export tax rebate rate of LED lighting lamps again, from 14% to 17%. Driven by the national export policy, domestic LED lighting exports have shown a steady upward trend. Compared with 2011, the export value of each month in 2012 has a relatively large growth, but affected by the global economy, the export growth rate is not obvious.

According to GSC's statistical analysis of China's LED lighting export data from January to August 2012, the total export amount of China's LED lighting lamps from January to August 2012 was 5163.896 million yuan, of which the export amount exceeded 0.7 billion yuan in 4 months, and the export amount reached 726.3784 million yuan in August, with the largest export amount.

Judging from the export destinations of LED lighting lamps, the top 10 destinations for LED lighting lamps from January to August 2012 have not changed much compared with 2011. The top three destinations are still Hong Kong, the United States and Japan, with Britain and Thailand entering the top 10 destinations for LED lighting lamps in China with export amounts of 106.819 million yuan and 94.695 million yuan respectively, accounting for 2.07 and 1.83 percent, while India and Taiwan, Penghu and Jinma fell out of the top 10.

From the point of view of China's LED lighting export distribution area, South China and East China occupy the majority. According to the statistics of the industry association, the export value of LED display application products in 2011 was 2.6 billion yuan, of which the export value of South China was 1.85 billion yuan, accounting for more than 70%; the export value of East China was 0.53 billion yuan, accounting for about 20%; Other regions export less.