China Video Conference System Industry Development Prospects and Investment Forecast Analysis, 2013-2017

The most distinctive characteristics of this report is forward-looking and timeliness. Through analyzing forward-looking characteristic of abundant first-hand market data, we deeply and objectively dissect China current video conference system industry’s overall development size and competitive landscape. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years’ practice experience of video conference system industry, we conduct prudent analysis and forecast for video conference system industry’s future development trend.

After the video conference system entering in 1990s, it develops very rapidly, especially during the period of SARS, creating an opportunity for video conference system entering into the market, which successfully introduces the video conference system to the public, and creates the development tide of domestic video conference. In 2006, the HD users were known by the public, which provides a new milestone for the development of video conference. With the holding of Olympic Games in 2008 and the World Expo in 2010, the development of Triple play, and the further development of HD technology, the video conference ushers in a high-key development period. According to statistics, the industry market size in 2010 reached 6.63 billion Yuan.

At present, China video conference system mainly applies in many fields, such as governmental official business, commercial application, distance education, tele-medicine, among which the governmental official business system is the earliest application field that China develops, and its application is popularized. In the developed economic areas, the video conference net has covered all the prefecture-level cities, and some even covered the towns. Besides all levels of governmental departments, other functional departments, such as procuratorate, court and public security are important users for video conference system. In all application fields, governmental official conference system accounts for around 30% shares, while the proportion of distance education and tele-medicine is relatively small, but with huge development potentials.

In recent years, what video brands which actively develop in China’s market are some foreign brands, such as Polycom and Tandberg, and some domestic brands, such as Huawei, ZTE, Cordaites, Warburg Pincus and Dvision. The leading enterprises in the industry occupy a large majority of market shares. Since 2009, Cisco has purchased Tandberg, HP has purchased H3C, Logitech has purchased Life Size, and Google has purchased VoIP in succession. The continuing acquisition and reorganization lead the fight for market shares, forming a competitive trend with 4 groups, professional video communication manufacturers, network equipment manufacturers, IT digital manufacturers and comprehensive IT manufacturers. After a series of acquisition and merger cases, domestic manufacturers will face more pressure. But in terms of manufacturers, the Cisco, after purchasing Tandberg, will have a chance to challenge the absolute leading position of Polycom.

In the future, with the fast increasing demand of SMEs and individual users, and with the relative huge demand of governmental, financial, energy and telecom industries, China video conference system has great prospects for development. In particular, major manufacturers aim at the market development changes and adopt the way of introducing leasing platform and the HD video conference system timely, to meet customer’s demand, which help them to consolidate their industry position and make contributions to the development of video conference system market. Promoted by both market demand and manufacturers, it’s predicted the market size of China video conference system industry will reach 22 billion Yuan at the end of “twelfth five-year” period.

The fierce competition in China video conference system market requires the enterprises attach great importance to the market research, especially the researches on market prospects and competitive rivals. With Forward’s long-term tracking and collecting market data of video conference system industry, we roundly and accurately analyze the industry structure system for you from the view of mastering the whole industry. This report mainly focuses on analyzing China video conference system industry’s market size, development speed and competitive situation, depending on macro-prosperity of current video conference system g industry and relying on its production and marketing conditions as well as the demand trend. Meanwhile, with comprehensive and specific first-hand market data over the past several years, Forward helps you to grasp the market and development trends of video conference system industry, so as to win advantages from competition!

The most distinctive characteristics of this report is forward-looking and timeliness. Through analyzing forward-looking characteristic of abundant first-hand market data, we deeply and objectively dissect China current video conference system industry’s overall development size and competitive landscape. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years’ practice experience of video conference system industry, we conduct prudent analysis and forecast for video conference system industry’s future development trend. This report helps video conference system enterprises and investment enterprises to precisely grasp current latest developments of the industry. Afterwards, they can make wise operating decisions and define enterprises’ development directions. Moreover, this report is the first and weighty report on analyzing the industrial chain of video conference system industry and analyzing its leading corporations in an all-round and systematical way.

Here, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to State Information Center, Bureau of Statistics of China, China Customs, International Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Tsinghua University Library, Development Research Center of the State Council and Beijing Essence Forward Research Center, for their great support when we conduct this report!

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Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research Center
Research Team of Video Conference System Industry