LED industry core technology for manufacturing can China striking?

LED industry is regarded as the most likely to trigger a new round of industrial revolution of strategic emerging industries, appeared in our country. The size of the blind sign. This kind of factor and the fund bottleneck that the enterprise faces is together, bring about new industry to show the trend that most core technology is mastered by foreign enterprise. Emerging industries in China is now the risk of following the footsteps of traditional industries. Fortunately, due to the immature technology of emerging industries, China has a chance to compete with developed countries. The key question is whether the government can realize the importance of mastering the core technology to develop new industries and help enterprises solve the financing bottleneck

Worries behind the halo

Li Changxing is reluctant to import LED chips from abroad, but had to import from abroad. As Chongqing Gan Yu Technology Development Co. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Gan Chongqing Technology) technology partner and chief engineer, Li Changxing began working on LED years ago (light emitting diode) lighting technology research. Now in this field, he has made dozens of invention patents, including his most proud to solve the poor performance of LED lighting technology.

Nevertheless, so far, he did not grasp the LED chip technology, must buy LED chips to other companies. "Because there is a huge gap between the domestic and foreign research and development" LED chip, Gan Yu had to choose foreign technology. After recent years of development, China has formed from the raw materials, epitaxial growth, chip manufacturing, to the device packaging, application products and supporting more complete LED industrial chain, related enterprises have reached more than 2 thousand. In these enterprises, the application of products and supporting more than 7. As a result, the application of LED products in the world's leading, involving street lights, tunnel lights, medical lighting and display and other fields. Chongqing a lot of Lighting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as a lot of light), said Zhang Bo, general manager, for example, even the United States companies are going to buy LED large screen.

However, behind the aura, is a worrying phenomenon: not long ago, a report by the Guangdong Provincial Intellectual Property Office and the Department of information industry of Guangdong province shows that the United States, Japan and European LED companies, with LED chip core technology patent more than 80%, while domestic enterprises have the same patent is less than 10%.

Due to the lack of the most core chip technology, China's LED enterprises generally imported foreign chips. Foreign well-known LED chip enterprise products in the domestic market share of nearly 100%! It is understood that the LED industry chain, including chip R & D and production, epitaxial film growth, LED packaging and LED applications. The first two belong to the upstream industry, profits accounted for about 70% of the entire LED industry; the latter two are midstream industries and downstream industries, low profits. Obviously, China's enterprises are mostly concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the LED industry chain, the upstream industry is weak. "An unnamed insiders said that the vast majority of China's LED enterprises, as it is, their" industry profits "Porter earn only a few cents, most of the profit for foreign companies to earn.

How much money to do

Why this embarrassing phenomenon? Capital bottleneck is the biggest problem! Li Changxing said with deep feeling. As early as 2004, Li has developed a plan to study LED cooling technology. In order to raise funds for research and development, he has repeatedly to bank loans. Each time, the bank refused to lend on the grounds that his company had no collateral. Desperation, he looked around to find relatives and friends to borrow money, only to raise about 1000000 yuan of research and development funds. The research has finally started, but the lack of funds, slow progress. Later, in 2008, he invented the LED lamp used in automobile, motorcycle lamp two patents. He applied for two patents at home. However, when he intends to apply for international patents, only to find that even a few thousand dollars in pocket patent application fee has not come out. Now, he has the money to apply for international patent, but has more than 18 months period, can only sigh deeply. At the beginning of April, he in technology shares, with Chongqing a private enterprise partnership registered Gan Chongqing Science and technology. In this company, he wanted to lead the technical staff to develop LED chip. He has been aware that, if the company can not develop their own chips, it has been subject to foreign companies". He even had a whim, hoping to apply solar cells to LED lights, so that the LED lights can not use electricity.

However, these ideas can not be turned into practical research. The company has just started, there is no money to engage in these studies. At the same time, the bank loans are almost hopeless. He said. He tried to hold a patent to bank loans, the results of the bank is willing to provide the amount of the loan, only 1% of the value of the patent assessment, there is no meaning". In research and development, the company can only go slowly, how much money to do.

As with Gan Chongqing Technology, now mainly relates to the application of LED products a lot of lamps, in a short period of time is also unable to engage in LED upstream industry core technology research and development. Zhang Bo, general manager of the company told this reporter, in the industry, who are known to engage in LED epitaxial growth and development of the chip production and production of the most profitable, but also hope to control the core technology of the whole industry. But the lack of money is an insurmountable divide. "In the future, with the gradual development and expansion of the company, with a certain financial strength, we can step by step from the industrial chain to the upper reaches of the downstream. "

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