Today's development

　　The development speed of hardware industry is very fast. The most concentrated markets of traditional hardware industry in China are mainly concentrated in mechanical hardware, construction hardware, decorative hardware and daily hardware. The trend of industrial concentration of hardware industry is also obvious. The domestic hardware industry is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Hebei, Shandong and other economically developed provinces and regions. Traditional hardware enterprise products are relatively single, many enterprises only to other manufacturing enterprises to do matching, accessories, the dependence on manufacturing enterprises is stronger, and the response to market demand is also slow. Traditional hardware enterprises do not pay attention to the research and development of new products and the extension of the market, resulting in the lack of sustained competitiveness of enterprises. In the face of more and more specialized market demand, more and more fierce competition, many early-stage fast-growing hardware enterprises feel weak follow-up.

　　How to make enterprises have sustained competitiveness is a topic that many hardware enterprises are thinking about. As a result, the concept of "big hardware manufacturing" has been gradually mentioned by the hardware industry business people and experts on various occasions, the voice of integrating the hardware - manufacturing industry has become increasingly high. The hardware industry is mainly formed by changing the physical shape of metal raw materials, processing and assembling. As long as it is a metal parts assembly as the main process of the industrial areas are belong to the category of the hardware industry. If we extend the concept of hardware manufacturing to the whole manufacturing field and think about the development of hardware industry from the height of manufacturing industry, the concept of "big hardware manufacturing" arises from this: from metal material extraction and processing to the manufacture of primary metal products to the manufacture of general production equipment, and then to the national economy in all walks of life. The manufacture of equipment, the production activities in the whole industrial chain, can be called "hardware manufacturing".

　　In areas where hardware industry is concentrated, such as Yongkang in Zhejiang, Foshan in Guangdong and Zhongshan in Zhongshan, the traditional hardware production enterprises gradually realize forward and backward integration. Factories that originally made hardware spare parts also set foot in the manufacture of large machinery and equipment. Usually a regional enterprise also realizes the strategic integration from raw material processing to spare parts supply to finished product manufacturing. Hardware manufacturing enterprises also pay more attention to product research and development and technological innovation, scientific and technological research and development has also promoted the industrial upgrading of hardware enterprises. "Hardware manufacturing" has become a common practice in industrial concentration areas.

　　In fact, the transformation from small hardware to big hardware is the process from traditional hardware to modern hardware, and the only choice is to rely on scientific and technological progress, take the road of scientific and technological prosperity. How to integrate all the resources in the hardware industry so that the hardware manufacturing industry can adapt to the trend of economic globalization? The information integration function of the Internet makes it possible for the industry alliance: the emergence of the industry e-commerce platform provides a platform for many enterprises to buy and sell their products across space. In 2004 China's most commercially valuable commercial websites, industry B2B occupied most of the Jiangshan, hardware industry websites are among the top.