China Laser Industry Development Prospects and Transformation & Upgrading Report, 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 laser industry’s overall market capacity, market size, competitive landscape and characteristics of market demand. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years’ practice experience of laser industry, we conduct prudent analysis and forecast for laser industry’s future development trend.

The laser is the new light of the 1960s, with good direction, high brightness, good color and high energy density. The laser industry, on the basis of laser machinery, develops rapidly around the world. And it has been widely used in many fields, such as industrial production, communication, information processing, health care, military, culture and education, and scientific research, etc. According to statistics, from the high-end fiber to common barcode scanner, the market value of laser-related products and services reaches one trillion US dollars every year.

At present, laser industry has formed a complete and mature industrial chain layout. The upstream mainly includes laser materials and supporting components, the midstream mainly is laser machinery and supporting equipment, and the downstream mainly includes a variety of laser application products, consumption products and instrument. The domestic laser market can be mainly divided into several parts, such as laser processing equipment, optical communication equipment, laser measuring equipment, laser equipment, laser medical equipment, laser components, etc. Nowadays, China laser products are mainly used in industrial processing and optical communication market, both of which occupy 70% of the whole market space.

The statistical results show, there are more than 200 laser-related enterprises in China, which mainly concentrate in Hubei, Beijing, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Guangdong, the economic developed provinces and cities. The sales revenue in these places takes up 90% of the total sales revenue of national laser product market. China laser industry has formed four big laser industrial clusters, the Central China, the Bohai Rim, Yangtze River Delta Area and Pearl River Delta Area. In the future, the domestic laser industry will become more intensive. In recent years, the market size of China laser industry grows rapidly, with a compound average growth rate of over 25%, which is far higher than that of global market. In 2009, with the background of big slum of global laser industry, China laser market still maintained a growth of 15%, and the market scale broke through 10 billion Yuan; while with the recovery of global economy in 2010, the laser market warmed up as soon as possible. The domestic market benefited from the downstream industries, then the market size broke through 13.5 billion Yuan.

Because laser has many advantages, in order to occupy the commanding height of world's information and technology in a competitive environment of globalization, the developed countries have step up to implement the development plan for the laser industry, such as the U.S. “Laser Fusion Program”, the Germany “2001 Action Plan for Laser”, the UK “Abi Plan” and Japan “Five-year Laser Research Plan”, etc. The laser industry in the developed countries, represented by US, Germany and Japan develops very fast, which mainly concentrates in large-scale manufacturing industries, for instance, in automobile, electronics, mechanical, aerospace, steel and other industries, the laser processing technic has replaced and upgraded the traditional technic, entering a “light manufacturing” age.

However, besides the laser audio and video equipment has formed the massive production scale, there is a relative large gap between China other laser application markets and that of foreign markets at present. China laser industry has the vast space for development. Meanwhile, with the advancement of laser technology, China laser industry will definitely gain the fast development. According to estimation, driven by the related industries, China laser industry will develop at a pace of 20% in the next five years. By 2015, China laser application field will form a laser industrial cluster with laser processing, laser communication, laser medical, laser display, laser hologram and other industries. The industry has the good prospects for development.

The good industry prospects intensify the competition. With the growing competition in laser industry, acquisition and capital operation among large enterprises become more and more frequent. The domestic excellent laser enterprises pay more attention to the industry market research, especially to the indepth researches on the industry development environment and product buyers. With Forward’s long-term tracking and collecting market data of laser 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 laser industry’s market size, development speed and competitive situation, depending on macro-prosperity of current laser industry and relying on its production and marketing conditions as well as the demand trend.

The report pay more attention to analyze the background environment of China laser industry; the technology development level of laser industry; the development status and competitive landscape of laser industry; the development situation of key regional markets of laser industry; the domestic leading corporations operational conditions in laser industry and the research on operational conditions of machinery; the development situation and prospects forecast of laser industry; the development trend and investment analysis of laser industry.

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 laser industry’s overall market capacity, market size, competitive landscape and characteristics of market demand. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years’ practice experience of laser industry, we conduct prudent analysis and forecast for laser industry’s future development trend. This report helps laser-related 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 up and down stream industrial chain of laser 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, 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 Laser Industry