Lack of standard LED industry chaos

"If you don't solve the problem of industry standards, you will not be able to stop the chaos in the industry." Yesterday, Zhang Xiaofei, director of the Gaogong LED Industry Research Institute said.

In recent investigations, it has been found that the lack of standards has become one of the sources of industrial chaos.

In addition, due to the small number of talents in the entire LED industry, there are serious problems between companies. The industry believes that the lack of standards and talent will limit the long-term healthy development of the LED industry.

The huge industry actually lacks the national standard. "Why now there are so many LED companies, because the threshold for entry is too low," said Peng Jie, the deputy secretary-general of the Shenzhen Institute of Illumination. Although LED has gone through 20 years of development in China, it still lacks national standards that are recognized by the industry.

"There is no standard that makes LED companies in the market difficult to distinguish between authenticity and inferiority," said Zhang Xiaofei. It is understood that in the absence of national standards, local governments have successively introduced a series of local standards.

However, Zhang Xiaofei said: “Different local standards have serious irregularities.” Standard deviations have led to obstacles in the application of LED products in different regions. A LED business person disclosed to the reporter of the Yangcheng Evening News that his company had encountered a situation where the product could not be used in the field.

Zhang Xiaofei believes that this also leads to companies that make high-end products “lose losses”, but low-end products can easily get items through low prices, and “bad coins use good money”.

According to industry sources, in recent days, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is stepping up efforts to discuss and formulate LED national standards. "More than one country's relevant departments are discussing standard setting. Some third-party agencies are also actively discussing the formulation of national standards, but now there is a lack of a core leading department." Zhang Xiaofei said.

One industry source disclosed that because of the lack of talent, the phenomenon of mutual excavation between companies is more common.

“My department has already had five people as managers of other companies.” Zhang Wenliang, assistant to Chairman of the Board of Directors of QS Shangguang, sighed, “The lack of people in the LED industry is too serious.”

According to sources in the industry, as soon as Shenzhen Duo Lili collapsed, there were several companies that had to “get people”. "For this industry, the real technical talent is still too little." Bao Enzhong, executive deputy secretary-general of the Shenzhen Semiconductor Lighting Development Promotion Association, who participated in the collapse of the company, said.

Zhang Xiaofei believes that the most obvious manifestation of talent shortage is the upstream enterprises. According to reports, as the LED epitaxy and the core technology of the chip are now in the hands of foreigners, the upstream companies in China generally face the lack of R&D personnel.

Tsinghua Professor Zhan Qingxuan: "Too much LED! Too bright! Too much chaos!"

"Where is the brightest in the world, where the economy is most developed." The large-scale application of LED has made China's many cities more and more bright. However, Zhan Qingxuan, a professor at the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University and deputy director of the China Illuminating Engineering Society, recently attended the “Yinghui Lighting Forum—Green Lighting in the New Century” and believed that the landscape lighting in many cities in China has been “too much! Too bright! "Ignoring the intention of low-carbon and energy-saving LED lighting.

Zhan Qingxuan said: "LEDs must be well planned in their applications. They must not only save energy, increase the vitality of the city, but also control light pollution."