In the domestic market has not really started, the development of the lighting industry fanaticism will overdraw the future capacity and market. Is the prospects infinite or difficult? What are the opportunities and challenges faced by China's LED lighting industry? “Under the same lighting effect, semiconductor lighting (LED) can save more than 80% energy compared with traditional light sources, and its lifetime is more than 10 times longer than traditional light sources.” In Nanchang High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Lu Bo holds the executive vice president of Jingneng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. A semiconductor blue light tells the author.

As a global new generation of environmentally friendly light sources, LED is known as the most developing green lighting source in the 21st century for its high brightness, low heat, long life and other advantages. At present, China has included semiconductor LED lighting in its mid- and long-term technological development plans. Now it has formed an industrial chain of epitaxial wafer production, chip preparation, package integration, and LED application. Driven by favorable policies, the domestic LED industry has developed rapidly with blowout.

Changjiang Fengyi, deputy school of Nanchang University, believes that starting from last year, LED lighting industry began to develop rapidly from the upstream to the downstream, and it has reached the blowout state in the first half of this year. According to statistics, in 2009, China's LED lighting industry, there are nearly 60 upstream companies, the middle reaches of the device packaging companies have more than 1,000, more than 2,000 downstream application companies, employing more than 800,000 people. In 2009, the output value of semiconductor lighting on the downstream industries was 82.7 billion yuan. According to the investigation report of the LED Industry Research Institute of Gaogong Industry, LED lighting has surpassed backlight sources to become the fastest growing application market in the LED market. By 2015, LED's penetration rate in the domestic lighting market will reach 1/4.

"Like digital products instead of film, LED lamps will replace traditional incandescent lamps at unimaginable speeds." Zhuang Shenan, chairman of Beijing Shenan Investment Group, said, "With the attraction of the market, many companies want to take a place. Many pharmaceuticals in the south Plants and wineries are all doing LED lighting.” Although the market is expected to be so high, at this stage, due to blind development, China's LED lighting industry has exposed problems such as lack of core technologies, insufficient innovation capacity, and disorderly market competition.

“As far as production value is concerned, the current LED penetration rate in the domestic lighting market is only 5%. The dependence of core technology on imports and higher overall costs have become a stumbling block to the further development of the LED industry,” said Zhang Xiaofei, a senior engineer at the LED Industry Research Institute. "The LED chip is like an automobile engine. The lack of core technology will directly restrict the development of this industry." Zhuang Shenan said. It is understood that the main technology of LED upstream chip production is in the hands of foreign companies, and the slow pace of localization of technology has affected the development of the industry. The MOCVD epitaxial furnace and its related supporting technologies are the top end of the LED industry chain. Currently, they mainly rely on imports, which greatly restricts the cost control of the upper reaches of the LED industry.