A new round of reform in China's wire and cable industry

In the era of intelligence, cables have played an important off-site role as an important transmission link between equipment for weak current systems. Their development has received widespread attention. After decades of development, China's domestic cable industry has completed its original accumulation from scratch and from small to large, and has become a cable manufacturing country and a major exporter.

However, we should also soberly realize that a series of unfavorable signals such as rising raw materials in China's cable industry, rising labor costs, insufficient purchasing power due to the impact of the financial turmoil, and export-to-domestic exports have all come one after another. Cable companies are aware that China's cable industry is no longer the era of relying on products to compete. The industry's competition has expanded from the production field to the sales field. The market's competitive pattern has entered the era of product sales. In the standard era, the upgrading of competition must be accompanied by industrial adjustment. All these indications indicate that the cable industry has experienced many in-depth problems that affect its development in the high-speed growth. The industry transformation and upgrading need unified standards before they can seek the long-term development of the international market.

China's cable industry lacks a unified standard At present, various cables have different standards depending on the field of use. Some cables are produced in compliance with national standards, while some cables are produced according to the standards of a certain industry, and some cables are produced according to the company's own standards. At present, the vast majority of domestic cable product 315 network is produced according to its own corporate standards.

According to the author's investigation, when cables are used in the power industry, the industry standard for power cables is enforced; in the communications industry, standards for communication cables are enforced in the communications industry; cable products are integrated in the broadcasting and TV industry, and fire protection industry. The performance and application requirements of the industry have set relevant industry standards. However, due to various objective conditions, the cable industry has not yet established technical standards for special cable products.

Standards have become the "short board" of the cable industry

China's wire and cable industry obviously lacks the competitiveness of the international market. The reason is that the standard is a short board in the wire and cable industry. Standards are not only a comprehensive embodiment of product technology, but also a technical means of competitive strategy. When clamouring with the world's manufacturing powers, when corporate eyes began to invest in the global economy, when domestic manufacturing capacity appeared to be structurally redundant and many large-scale enterprises began to enter foreign markets, they discovered that there were a series of foreign economic systems. In addition to trade protection barriers, technical barriers are often set through the formulation of technical standards.

According to relevant sources, technical barriers also allow domestic cable companies to pay enough production costs and marketing costs. Calculated, it may still be hard earned labor. Because, to enter the US market to pass UL certification; enter the European market, to comply with EU standards. The purpose is very clear is to let you turn around the standards they set.

The transformation and upgrading of the cable industry is imperative: a unified standard can only seek the long-term development of the international market. When the domestic market is in surplus, the wire and cable industry must move toward the international market and need to learn to participate in the technical strategy of international competition. The crux of the problem is that the current domestic standards are far behind the changes in the international market. At the same time, front-line technologies such as wind power, nuclear power, photoelectric composites, and smart grids, which have industrial development prospects, also lack early-stage interventions for independently developed international standards.

Looking at the domestic cable market from an international point of view, it can be seen that foreign counterparts have already discovered the Chinese market, while the Chinese market is now at a time of scrambling. Foreign competitors are entering the market in China to seize control of technology, only our own cracked technology. Passwords can improve this one-sided situation and enable our domestic brands to step out of China and into the world. Therefore, there is a need for a strong basic management, and there must be standardization as a support, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve long-term development.

There have been industry analysts pointed out that "now China's cable industry is mature, but the industry standards are not standardized, especially when the company is in production, often based on corporate standards for production, the industry lacks a unified standard." Cable industry should be based on The characteristics of different products, the establishment of the corresponding product production, product access standards, the formation of a complete set of standard systems, product standards, in order to promote the healthy development of the industry. Although domestic companies are also familiar with the market for the possibility of changing standards, in order to cable a large international market, domestic cable companies need to enhance the awareness of international standard competition and national responsibility.

According to the basic laws of cable industry development and market competition, China's cable industry will inevitably experience large-scale and large-scale industry consolidation in the next five to ten years. It is inevitable that some excellent cable companies will rely on technology, quality, cost and brand. The advantages stand out in the industry. As the saying goes, “Every person who is able to become a powerful person must be justified. He who is prosperous and who will die will also have reason. He Xinghe died. He was rational and flourished and he died.” Therefore, in the face of the new situation of China's wire and cable industry, cable companies must step down and make changes, set technical barriers through the formulation of technical standards, break through the "short board" predicament of the cable industry, and then transform and upgrade and seek long-term international markets. development of.