Hardware products
Hardware products daily life and industrial production in the use of auxiliary, accessories manufactured goods. Early use of gold, silver, copper, iron, tin and other metal materials, hence the name. In addition to the use of a variety of metal materials, but also widely used plastic, glass fiber and other non-metallic materials. Hardware products in human survival and development process played an important role. With the socio-economic development and social division of labor refinement, hardware products gradually rich and perfect, more and more varieties. Modern hardware products can be divided into three categories according to the purpose: for daily life of daily hardware, as a production and living with auxiliary tools, hand tools, as buildings and structures in the connector, fasteners and ancillary facilities Hardware. Metal materials, metal products generally by forging blank, machining, surface treatment and other processes made. The purpose of surface treatment is to prevent corrosion and beauty. Non-metallic materials, metal products, more use of mold forming or pressure molding, with a lightweight and convenient features. Exports of metal products has maintained a steady growth trend, China has become one of the world's major exporters of hardware products, is expected to maintain annual exports in the future will remain 10-15% growth.
According to statistics, in 2010, China's hardware industry more than 8811 enterprises above designated size, total industrial output value of 635.234 billion yuan, the cumulative increase of 29.43%. Mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei 5 provinces, total industrial output value of 474.18 billion yuan, accounting for 74.64% of total industry output value.
Hardware industry to improve people's living standards, improve the quality of life, and continuously meet the people's growing material and cultural needs and the growing domestic and international market demand and absorb labor employment, to accelerate the pace of industrialization and urbanization have played a positive enhancement. In the realization of building a moderately prosperous society in the process of this ambitious goal, shoulder an important historical mission. "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, China will change the development of hardware industry, saving resources, reduce consumption, protect the environment, improve the quality and efficiency of economic growth under the premise of continuing to maintain orderly, healthy and rapid growth, and strive to China's hardware manufacturing power to the hardware manufacturing power change. It is expected that the total output value and industrial added value will increase by 10-12% during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, which will double the output value of the industry in 2015.