China Lock Capital – Wenzhou Wenzhou is a prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province, one of the 14 coastal open cities in the country, one of the five central cities in the economic zone on the west bank of the Straits, one of the cities in the Yangtze River Delta, and a provincial-level historical and cultural city in Zhejiang Province. One of Zhejiang's economic centers, the largest city in southeastern Zhejiang, and the southern Zhejiang economic, cultural, and transportation center, is located in the middle of the eastern coastline of China, southeast of Zhejiang, east of Donghai, south of Ningde City of Fujian, and connected to Lishui City to the west. Adjacent to Taizhou City. In 2007, the comprehensive economic strength of Wenzhou has been steadily increasing. The national economy has been characterized by “steady operation, enhanced stamina, and improved quality”. The total economic output ranks the third in the province, and the comprehensive economic strength ranks among the top 100 cities in the country.
The lock industry in Wenzhou started in the 1980s. Under the guidance of the party’s reform and opening up policy, with the support of the Wenzhou Municipal Committee and the municipal government, through the joint efforts of the industry colleagues, a series of difficulties have been overcome. In September 2002, China Light Industry Federation and China National Hardware Association jointly awarded Wenzhou City the title of “China Lock Capital”. Over the past few years, with the help of the municipal and district governments and related departments, the staff of the Wenzhou lock industry has been guided by the Deng Xiaoping Theory and the “****” important ideas, and in accordance with the requirements of the scientific concept of development, down to earth and grasping opportunities The courage to challenge, dare to innovate, so that the Wenzhou lock industry continues to develop steadily and healthily, the scale of the industry continues to expand, product quality has been steadily improved, brand building has achieved results, the production environment has improved, and China's lock capital construction has achieved fruitful results.
After several years of development, the lock industry in Wenzhou and 2002 are no longer comparable. It is understood that currently there are more than 400 companies engaged in the manufacture of lock products and have a certain scale in Wenzhou, with 183 enterprises above designated size, of which more than 60 are large-scale enterprises with an annual output value of 50 million yuan or more, employ 56,000 people, and have turned over to the country annually. The local tax and profits exceed 600 million yuan. The main products include ball-inserted ball locks, bicycle locks, motorcycle locks, and high-end electromechanical integrated IC card locks, sensor locks, press locks, and fingerprint locks developed and produced in recent years. The enterprises are mainly distributed in Bohai, Longxu, Lucheng, Shuijia, Ruian and other places. According to incomplete statistics, in 2007 the city’s sales of locks totaled 9.51 billion yuan and foreign trade exports reached 4 billion yuan. Although this year is affected by the international financial crisis, it is expected that The sales of locks will still exceed 10 billion yuan, and an annual output of nearly 500 million kinds of locks will be produced. Among them, the output of bicycle locks will account for more than 83% of the nation's total, and sales, exports, and output will rank first in the country. Products are mainly exported to more than 130 countries and regions such as the United States, Japan, Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and throughout the country. It is one of the most important lock production bases in China.
In the 1980s, under the guidance of the Party’s reform and opening up policy, Wenzhou people seized the opportunity to host a large number of Wenzhou private lock companies represented by Tianyu Lock Industry, Wuzhou Lock Industry, and Bohai Bicycle Lock Factory (predecessor of the Zhongli Group). The emergence of China's lock-making industry base has gradually formed and it has become one of the 16 distinctive industries in Wenzhou. In 2002, there were more than 350 locks and supporting enterprises in the city. The sales volume of locks was about 5 billion yuan and the export value was 1.6 billion yuan. After the “China Lock Capital” settled in Wenzhou, the lock industry in Wenzhou reviewed the situation and made persistent efforts to keep making progress in order to start the regional brand of Wenzhou locks. By the end of 2008, although the number of lock companies only increased by more than 20%, the sales of locks reached 10.2 billion yuan. Yuan, more than doubled from 2002, exports amounted to 4 billion yuan, an increase of 150% over 2002. Wenzhou lock industry structure has been continuously optimized, new products continue to emerge, the new market continues to expand, and formed a high, medium and low-end market structure of Wenzhou locks, so that Wenzhou locks reputation in the world.
In recent years, the lock industry in Wenzhou has continuously increased its technical transformation efforts, invested a large amount of capital, continuously developed new products, raised its technical content, and continuously improved the quality of its lock products. In recent years, the national sampling inspection and the provincial sampling inspection rate have continuously improved. Now there are more than 60 enterprises that have passed ISO9001:2000 certification in the industry. Four companies have passed ISO14001:2004 certification and three have passed GB/T28001-2001 certification. In addition to provincial and city-level lock product quality special inspection agencies, there are nine testing laboratories established by the company itself and three provincial-level R&D technical centers, which effectively ensure the improvement of product quality and new product development needs. According to incomplete statistics, in the past six years, Wenzhou locks companies have invested more than 1.5 billion yuan in the development of new products and equipment, developed more than 1,000 new products, filed more than 400 national patents, and applied for more than 130 national practical patents, and 5 patents for inventions. item. By the end of 2008, the Wenzhou lock industry had won a total of 1 national torch plan, 2 national spark plans, 2 new national products, and a number of provincial and municipal science and technology projects. At the same time, Wenzhou locks companies also participated in the “General Safety Technical Requirements for Locks”. Standards and the development of national standards GB1001-1990 "Bike Lock".
In addition to the overall development, in recent years, the Wenzhou lock brand construction has also achieved results. Tianyu lock industry has long been the province's brand name product and famous brand title in 2002. Subsequently, Neutral and GM were also awarded Zhejiang Famous Brand Products and Provincial Famous Brands in 2005 and 2006 respectively. In 2006, Tianyu, Qiangqiang, Neutral, and General Motors also received the title of “National Inspection-free Products”. In August 2007, Wenzhou Universal Lock Co., Ltd. was awarded China's well-known trademark. So far, Wenzhou Lock has 1 well-known trademark in China, 4 national inspection-free products, 9 provincial brand-name products and famous trademarks, 13 city famous brand products and well-known trademarks, and numerous industry outstanding enterprises. This fully shows that Wenzhou Lock has Strong competitive advantage, while still maintaining the leading position and comprehensive advantages of the national lock industry.
With the intensification of market competition, especially in the development of new products, the lock industry has witnessed unfair competition such as counterfeiting, disguised price reduction, and low price competition. Since 2001, the Chamber of Commerce has mobilized in the industry to encourage enterprises to innovate and strengthen the industry. Self-discipline, and the establishment of a product rights protection committee, since 2002, a total of more than 30 rights-protection activities, 312 new products have been protected by rights protection, and 8 mediation handling of infringement.
In order to improve the quality of Wenzhou's locks, the Chamber of Commerce raised more than 1 million yuan in the second half of 2003 and jointly set up a lock product inspection center with related departments to better serve the “China Lock Capital”. In 2006, the testing center passed the national laboratory expansion certification and recognition, and introduced nearly a dozen international advanced standards. To create more favorable quality and technical conditions for the export of enterprise products and to deal with technical barriers. Since its establishment more than four years ago, the testing center has provided more than 1,600 batches of inspection services for enterprises, held various types of technical consultations, and has conducted more than 20 standard lectures and training courses. In November 2007, it was awarded the title of Provincial-level SMEs by the Zhejiang SME Bureau. Technical Service Center. According to the needs of the industry, the chamber of commerce established the China Lock Net and set up the hardware lock journal. In October 2008, it also won the title of the professional brand base for locks in Zhejiang Province.
In order to create the overall image of Wenzhou “China Lock Capital”, in addition to participating in the second Canton Fair each year and the Guangzhou Building Materials Decoration Fair in July each year, the Chamber of Commerce organizes delegations to participate in the Shanghai International Hardware Exhibition and participates in the Wenzhou Light Fair three times a year. The image of the gold card “China Lock Capital” was repeatedly praised by the organizers and the municipal government. During the exhibition, leaders of China National Light Industry Association Chen Shineng and Chairman of China National Hardware Association Zhang Dongli and other leaders visited the exhibition area in Shanghai to observe and guide, and encouraged Wenzhou to make the industry bigger and stronger after obtaining the honorary title of “China Lock Capital”.
It is understood that, according to the needs of Wenzhou hardware and lock industry development, Wenzhou Hardware Chamber of Commerce plans to prepare to build China Locke International Hardware Purchasing Center. The preliminary planning of the center covers an area of nearly 300 acres and is divided into two phases. The first phase is 180 acres and the total investment is more than 1 billion yuan.
In the future, with the rapid development of domestic pillar-type industries such as homes, automobiles, and hotels, and the growing demand for high-precision security products from such systems as defense, security, and finance, the domestic lock market has enormous potential and unlimited business opportunities. In this regard, Wenzhou locks are not satisfied with today's excellent results, but based on the current, focus on the future, meticulously painted a better tomorrow.
It is understood that for the future of biometrics, electronic technology and other high-tech, intelligent lock products to increase the rate of annual growth of 40%, import locks increase by 30% per year in demand and market potential, Wenzhou locks companies will increase the adjustment of product structure Strength. One is to guide the market and select the entry point. The second is to vigorously carry out scientific and technological research, form their own core technologies and patents. The third is to target the international advanced level and accelerate the development of product development through integrated innovation and introduction, digestion and absorption.
In the face of economic globalization, Wenzhou Locks has given full play to its advantages, expanded its production, and expanded its domestic and foreign markets. In accordance with the positioning of small products—big market—large industries, taking innovation as the starting point, and sticking to the development of specialization, scale, and intensive, the two markets will work together to create a new situation in the lock market.
China's zipper capital - Jinjiang In July 2005, China National Hardware Association awarded Jinjiang City the title of "China's zipper capital." Jinjiang has more than 300 zipper manufacturing companies, employs 55,000 people, produces more than 5 billion meters of zippers, and has an annual output value of 5 billion yuan. A wide range of zipper products, complete specifications. Not only nylon zippers, but also copper zipper, plastic zipper, hidden zipper, double bone zipper, waterproof zipper, flame-retardant zipper, reflective zipper and the world's largest size 30 zipper; not only for clothing, bagging industry, but also There are high-tech specialties used in the fields of industry, environmental protection, health, aviation, fishery and military. It is understood that currently there are three of the nine brands in the national zipper industry in Fujian, including two in Jinjiang. Among the three zipper companies that have won China's well-known trademarks, two are in Jinjiang, which are Zhaoxing and Fuxing. In addition, China's zipper center also settled in Zhaoxing. Zhaoxing is currently the first listed company in China that focuses on zipper manufacturing.
The zipper industry in Jinjiang started at the beginning of reform and opening up. After years of development, the city has more than 130 zipper production and supporting enterprises, employing nearly 60,000 employees. In 2006, the industry's annual output value reached 6.3 billion yuan, and the production capacity occupied the whole country. More than 60% in the industry. Jinjiang zippers have also emerged in Zhaoxing, Fuxing and many other industry well-known brands. Relative to the zipper industry in Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places, the entire Jinjiang zipper industry has achieved remarkable results in terms of technological innovation, product development, brand promotion, etc., and plays an indispensable role in the domestic industry as a radiating effect.
Jinjiang has initially formed four characteristic zipper industry bases. The first is Zixing zipper industrial zone, which is located in Shenzhen-Shanghai Township and brings together more than 10 zipper manufacturers. The second is the Fuxing zipper industrial zone, which is located in the south of Longhu Town and brings together more than 40 zipper manufacturers. The third is Fenglin Zipper Industrial Zone, which is located in Fenglin Village, Longhu Town, where more than 30 zipper manufacturers are brought together. The fourth is the Yinglin zipper industrial zone, which is located in the Yinglin Township area and brings together more than 20 zipper manufacturers. At present, there are 15 ribbon production companies, 12 dyeing and dyeing companies, 22 electroplating spray color companies, 5 chemical fiber companies and 6 machinery manufacturing enterprises in the Jinnan area. For many years, they specialize in the matching processing of Jinjiang zippers.
In 2007, Jinjiang passed the re-evaluation and continued to be awarded the 'Zipper Capital of China'. Jinjiang zipper industry started earlier and developed faster traditional hardware products industry. Since the reform and opening up, the zipper manufacturing industry in Jinjiang has relied on the strong push of the apparel, footwear, and luggage industries. From scratch, from small to large, and from large to strong, Jinjiang zipper manufacturing has achieved extraordinary leapfrog development and created a number of nationally renowned The Dragon Skull Dry Enterprise has become the domestic zipper product production and processing base and the main distribution center, and has taken the position of “first in the nation and second in the world”. There are not many places that can compete with Jinjiang for the title of "China's zipper capital." The provinces where the national zipper industry is relatively concentrated are Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu, and Shanghai. There are also scattered zipper companies in inland areas, but the overall scale is relatively small. Most of the zipper companies in Guangdong are concentrated in Shenzhen, Shantou, Foshan and Dongguan, and are mainly Taiwanese and Hong Kong-invested companies. Most of their products are directly exported. The overall scale of strength is ranked first in the country, but zipper companies have a wider distribution area. If the county and city are the application points, the industry is too fragmented.
The real strength and the higher level of Jinjiang, mainly Zhejiang Yiwu and Yongjia. It is understood that Yiwu mainly develops a relatively concentrated zipper manufacturing industry by relying on the locally developed product trading market, but the local zipper trade still dominates. At present, the city has been awarded the title of “Chinese zipper manufacturing base” awarded by China National Hardware Association. Yongjia’s Qiaotou Town is one of the most concentrated industrial areas in the zipper industry in Zhejiang. It is actually a relatively strong “adversary” in the zipper industry in Jinjiang, and it is also a business and trade partner. However, the town has also won the title of "China's zipper village" awarded by the China Hardware Association. Interestingly, Jinjiang’s declaration of “China's zipper capital” is also inspired by the “China zipper township”.
The button capital of China, Qiaotou, came to Qiaotou Town, Yongjia County, Wenzhou, and it was a magnificent "China Button City". The button market was officially opened in February 1983 and became a nationally famous button trading center. As early as 1986, this market had the reputation of “the first button market in the East” among the top ten professional markets in Wenzhou City. Since the button started, because of the famous button town of Qiaotou, after several years of development, Qiaotou people familiar with the button, understanding, comprehension, is unmatched in other places. On December 30, 2002, China National Hardware Association awarded the title of "China's Button Capital" in Qiaotou Town.
The button industry in Qiaotou was mainly based on organic glass buttons and plastic electroplating buttons. It was gradually transformed into the establishment of a home button factory, which produces and markets organic glass buttons and plastic electroplating buttons. In 1998, Qiaotou appeared to be a manufacturer of unsaturated resin buttons with a variety of fashionable styles, which has the advantages of being resistant to hot and non-fading, and quickly developed into a button company of a large scale. These enterprises have increased investment in technological reforms and have introduced a large number of advanced deduction equipment from Italy. Since then, the technical level and management level of button production have been greatly improved. Nowadays, the varieties and patterns of bridge buttons are complete.
At present, the town's button industry and related supporting industries have begun to take shape, with obvious advantages in terms of service system, quality, price, brand, etc. The industry's equipment level and technological level are in a leading position in the country.
With the increasing number of business households, Button City stores can not meet market demand in terms of quantity or scale. At present, there are more than 300 button shops on the streets surrounding Button City, forming a considerable agglomeration effect. Currently, the company has been stationed mainly with local customers. There are both direct sales companies and professional agents, while a few large-scale enterprises in Guangdong and other places have settled down.
The annual sales of five billion button tablets, customers in the mountains before the purchase of buttons, the entire market mainly in the management of high-end buttons, while 兼营 zipper, variety, variety of styles. The button is generally 500 bags per bag. The general button wholesale price is between 1 and 2 yuan per bag, 50 to 100 yuan per bag. The wholesale price of some other low-grade buttons is only a few cents for each grain, while the high-grade wholesale price is a few dollars for each grain. According to statistics, this market has sold a total of five billion buttonholes a year, which means that each person in the country must buy four or five buttons from here.
Button City merchants mostly use cash spot transactions, and manufacturers trade on orders. There are Agricultural Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank, Post Office and Consignment Department nearby. There are highways passing through Qiaotou Town and only 10 minutes by car to downtown Wenzhou. By then, the market circulation of goods is more convenient. In the past, the customers in the market were mainly three-tier wholesalers and direct button users. Nowadays, the customers are mainly wholesalers of clothing companies. At present, the products are exported to Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai and other parts of the country and many countries in the world. The annual transaction volume reaches 1.438 billion yuan, and it is increasing at a rate of 10% to 20% every year.
The rise of the button market has spawned a large number of button enterprises in Qiaotou Township. It is understood that the total output value of Qiaotou's industrial enterprises in the whole town in 2009 was 4.2 billion yuan, including more than 500 button companies, and a number of button companies established group companies. . The total output value of buttons is 1.6 billion yuan. Currently, a button-hole industrial park covering an area of 1,800 acres is being opened. One of the 600 acres of land has been approved and the plan has been set. More than 30 button manufacturers have registered and settled.
The apparel accessories industry has taken advantage of it, and the button market accounts for 60% of the world's total sales. With the gradual prosperity of the business, the button market is actively building the garment accessories industry chain, and derivatives gradually become scale. In 2001, Zhejiang Province designated the township of Qiaotou as a specialized town of clothing accessories. There are 68 companies with a total output value of over 5 million such as zippers and buttons. In order to conduct business and promote products, Qiaotou Button City adopts China's top-level website business and forms itself as China's largest professional button e-commerce website. Many manufacturers in the market also set up trading websites to promote online information exchange and commodity trading. At present, the button market not only becomes a distribution center for products, but also becomes a window for the industry to display products, collect market information, publish and exchange information.