With the enhancement of energy conservation and environmental protection and the upgrading of lighting products, governments continue to strengthen the LED industry policy support and promotion efforts, LED industry successfully into the development of fast lane, and ushered in the revolutionary replacement period. However, the rapid development of China's LED industry in the moment, the barriers to international trade is also gradually increased.
Not long ago, the United States launched the so-called "China unfair trade behavior" survey ("301" survey), the industry is expected to LED industry exports caused great turbulence. In the United States, "301" investigation is still taking the time, the US trade protection of another big tool, "201" investigation has been a substantive action.
September 22, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) on the photovoltaic battery and components of the global safeguards investigation ("201" investigation) to make a ruling, that the imported products on the US domestic industry caused serious damage, the next step will be research on Import restrictions on imported products.
In August this year, the major LED companies in the first half of the basic performance report released from the semi-annual report of each business situation, the news is quite gratifying, the vast majority of revenue and net profit growth. In the surprise, we also learned a worrying news. August 18, the United States launched China 301 survey, involving technology transfer, intellectual property and innovation in areas such as China launched a formal trade investigation, on the LED industry, intellectual property rights once again pushed on the cusp.
Future competition is based on core technology, intellectual property, corporate brand and other elements of competition. At present, the international giants still firmly occupy the lighting industry, high-end market, domestic lighting companies to get a share, need to technology research and development, industry standards, brand building, marketing and other aspects.
China is the world's largest LED products manufacturing and exporting countries, the first half of 2017 the national lighting industry to complete the cumulative export delivery value of 51.66 billion yuan, an increase of 8.77%. However, in the "industrial power" into the "industrial power" in the process, there are still many core technical shortcomings. For example, China's exports to the United States are mainly low-end intensive labor-based products, large but slightly micro, and the US exports to China is mainly high-tech high-end products, lucrative.
With the increasing exposure of intellectual property disputes, countries immediately launched property rights protection measures. At present, the United States rushed to start 301 survey, the core technology transfer is bound to be tightened. Due to the lack of technology, China's LED business has suffered a lot of patent infringement litigation. Therefore, how to develop the core technology has become the most important development of China's LED industry.
Through the patent to buy and mergers and acquisitions of overseas assets is a large number of enterprises to enhance the competitiveness of technology one of the usual means. However, the United States has a strict core technology protection network, but also the protection of the most perfect system, especially in the US enterprises to sell the problem. Earlier, the US Foreign Investment Review Committee on the grounds of national security, rejected the Chinese consortium to buy Philips LED and automotive lighting components manufacturer LumiLEDs majority stake, the deal is related to hundreds of patent transfer. Which behind the United States revealed a strong sense of the core technology protection.
In the future competition, especially in the core technology protection measures increasingly close to the environment, we should use domestic policies and resources to enhance the technical strength, continue to carry out scientific research and innovation, rather than only hope that the form of overseas mergers and acquisitions or cooperation to develop technology.
We need to continue to change the technological innovation to enhance the core competitiveness of science and technology to promote development, only the real master the core technology, the courage to explore and constantly improve and enhance the quality of LED products to create their own core competitiveness in order to international competition in the big stage True right to speak.