Policy helps China to accelerate LED shifts

As a national key support, nurturing and developing a strategic emerging industry - LED lighting is a new generation of lighting revolutionary technology applications, with energy saving, environmental protection, high efficiency and other characteristics, especially in the traditional energy, environmental pollution and other factors constrained today, LED lighting The industry has undoubtedly become the focus of national and social concerns.

Why Europe and the United States lead the LED industry In the global environment, the enormous pressure of the energy crisis, semiconductor lighting has been recognized as an important way for health, energy saving and environmental protection, governments actively provide policies and financial support to enable their companies to achieve technological breakthroughs and accelerate LED Commercialization process.

Japan formulated the "21st Century Light Plan" as early as 1998, and invested 5 billion yen in the development of white light semiconductor lighting LEDs and new semiconductor materials, substrates, phosphors, and lighting fixtures from 1998 to 2002. According to the relevant policies issued by the Japanese government, incandescent light bulbs must be withdrawn from the market before 2012, and the LED lighting consumption is expected to increase by more than 200% annually. In addition, the Japanese government also clearly stipulates that companies or institutions using LED lighting devices to replace incandescent lighting devices during 2006-2007 can obtain 130% of the investment amount for over depreciation, or 7% of the investment amount.

European and American countries’ support for the LED industry is not small. The European Union has launched the "High-brightness Organic Light-Emitting Diode Project for Information and Communication Technologies and Lighting Equipment" and invested 20 million euros to effectively improve the luminous efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes. At the same time, it also launched a comprehensive ban on the production and sale of incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps, and energy-saving lamps, and promoted the development of LED lighting technology.

In 2002, the federal government of the United States launched the National Semiconductor Lighting Research Program and incorporated it into the Energy Act. Enterprises can receive 50 million U.S. dollars in financial support each year, and a total of 500 million U.S. dollars in financial support in 10 years. The US Congress’s funding support for LED lighting projects rose from 3 million U.S. dollars in 2003 to 30 million U.S. dollars in 2007, and funds continued to rise in 2009 and 2010. In 2011 and 2012, according to the economic stimulus plan, the U.S. Congress increased the R&D expenditure for LED lighting by 50 million U.S. dollars and 37.8 million U.S. dollars, respectively, making the total funds for the two years approaching 140 million U.S. dollars.

With the strong support of policies and funds, Japan is the largest producer of LED industry in the world. Its development trend is almost a compass for the development of the global LED industry, while the United States and Europe have leading advantages in the upstream epitaxial and chip core technologies.

The policy helped China to accelerate the shift of LED lighting. As China started late in the LED industry, and was monopolized by foreign companies on the basis of LED core technology and patents, the development is relatively slow. However, with the national and local support for the LED industry gradually increasing, China The LED industry began to fully enter the development period.

According to the survey, China has introduced a number of policies since 2009 to support and encourage the development of the LED industry. In April 2009, the Ministry of Science and Technology issued the "Replied Letter on the Agreed Implementation of the Trial City Lighting Project Pilot Work". According to the plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 2 million LED street lights will be built in 50 cities. In September of the same year, the six ministries and commissions including the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued the “Opinions on the Development of Semiconductor Lighting Energy-saving Industry”, which proposed that large-scale MOCVD equipment, key raw materials, and more than 70% of chips will be domestically produced, and upstream chip-scale production enterprises. Up to 5 companies with significant increase in industry concentration, 10 key leading companies with independent brands and large market influence; preliminarily established a semiconductor lighting standard system; by 2015, the average annual growth rate will be around 30%, functional lighting The market share reaches 20%; the liquid crystal backlight source reaches more than 50%, and the market share of landscape decoration and other products reaches more than 70%.

In February 2013, the six ministries and commissions including the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Science and Technology released the “Semiconductor Lighting Energy-Saving Industry Plan”. The planning goal is to achieve LED chip localization rates of more than 80%, and silicon-based LED chips have made important breakthroughs. The luminous efficiency of core devices and the quality of applied products have reached the international advanced level in the same period; large-scale MOCVD equipment and key raw materials have been domesticized, and the localization rate of detection equipment has reached over 70%. To establish a world-class level of research and development, testing platforms, standards, and certification systems; By 2015, all 60W incandescent lamps will be eliminated, the market share will drop below 10%, and the market share of LED functional lighting products will reach 20 More than %; LED lighting energy-saving industry output value increased by an average of about 30% in 2015 to reach 450 billion yuan (of which 180 billion yuan LED lighting applications; form 10-15 master core technologies, have more independent intellectual property rights and well-known brands, Leading company with strong quality competitiveness.

At the same time, many domestic provinces have put forward the "local version" of the LED industry development policy based on the needs of energy conservation and environmental protection. In April 2011, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology issued the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” for the development of the LED industry in Guangdong Province. The plan proposes that by 2015, it will cultivate 1 to 2 leading enterprises with an output value of 10 billion yuan and cultivate 1 to 2 With an industrial cluster with an output value of 100 billion yuan, the province's LED strategic emerging industries have exceeded 300 billion yuan.

In 2009, Yangzhou proposed to subsidize the purchase of LEDs. Among them, the blue-green light MOCVD31 chip machine and above, subsidy funds up to 10 million yuan / Taiwan; red and yellow light MOCVD38 film machines and above, subsidy funds up to 8 million yuan / Taiwan (city, district finance finance 50% ). According to calculations, Yangzhou Light invested 1 billion yuan in the field of equipment subsidies.

In terms of product applications, Shenzhen proposed that companies participating in LED demonstration projects for government investment projects should be given a 10% subsidy based on the price of the fixtures and discounted for 3 years. For companies that undertake LED application demonstration projects for corporate investment projects, subsidies are provided at 30% of the price of LED lamps.

Industry analysts believe that with the support of national policies, the promotion of financial subsidies and the implementation of LED lighting by the national and local governments, this has played a guiding role in the development of LED companies. At the same time, it also enables enterprises to use technology through financial support. On the breakthrough, enterprises will have more confidence to face market competition and accelerate the internationalization of China's LED industry.

The policy supports the continuous release of China's LED companies' bright state-seeking preferential policies. At the same time, it supports them with funds and subsidies, demonstrating the country's determination to develop strategic emerging industries for energy conservation and environmental protection. Under the active promotion of the government, China's LED companies are committed to technological innovation, creativity, R & D capabilities continue to increase, and actively through vertical integration, extending the industrial chain, the development of industrial clusters, and gradually narrowing the gap with the world's traditional LED giant.

China's LED epitaxial materials, chip manufacturing, device packaging, phosphors and other aspects have shown the cell technology with independent technology property rights, some of the core technology has originality, initially formed from the upstream material, midstream chip preparation, downstream device packaging and integrated applications The relatively complete R&D and industrial system laid a solid foundation for the development of China's LED industry to a certain extent. At present, the 863 project undertaking unit has applied for 241 patents, including 152 invention patents and 17 foreign invention patents.

Major breakthroughs have been made in the key technologies for industrialization. Power-based chips have grown from scratch, and the proportion of domestically-made chip replacement imports has increased year-on-year, reaching 46% so far. The power-type white LED package is close to the international advanced level and has become an important global LED packaging base. The 100 lm/W LED manufacturing technology with the company as the main body has progressed rapidly, and the industrialization line has achieved better results of approximately 70 lm/W. Power-based silicon-based LED chips with proprietary intellectual property rights have a white light efficiency of more than 50 lumens/watt.

Large-scale system integration technology research and major applications are progressing smoothly. The application product category and scale are in the forefront of the world and have become the largest production and exporter of global LED full-color display, solar LED, landscape lighting and other application products. In July 2008, Hisense's first 42-inch ultra-thin LED-backlit LCD TV was officially launched, breaking the monopoly of foreign manufacturers, indicating that Chinese consumer electronic products, which account for 40% of world production, began to use LED technology on a large scale. In 2012, China's semiconductor lighting industry output value has exceeded 190 billion yuan.

Under the support of the national policy, in the enterprise's own innovation and innovation, China has emerged a large number of LED brand enterprises led by Sanan Optoelectronics. The Chinese LED industry is changing from being a “product” to being a “brand”, and then Continuously promote the transformation of China's LED industry from "Made in China" to "Created in China."