Talking about the Development of Zhongshan Xiaolan Hardware Industry Cluster

The hardware industry is a traditional industry in Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. As early as 1986, Xiaolan Town was honored as China's “Lock City in the South”. After more than 20 years of development, Xiaolan Town's hardware products industry has formed a category of 10 types of hardware industry, with locks and gas appliances as the leading products, and upstream and downstream products and various accessories. In 2008, Xiaolan Town's hardware and plastics industry revenue reached 15 billion yuan, accounting for 39.4% of the town's industrial sales.

In 2002, China National Hardware Association named Xiaolan Town as “China Hardware Industry Base”. After this title, Xiaolan Town actively promoted the development and optimization and upgrading of the hardware products industry. The products were continuously upgraded and the added value continued to increase, and the domestic market share continued to increase. At present, the market share of two lock brands, "Guli" and "Huafeng," ranks first in the industry for many years in a row; "Jiao Yalun" has been named "the first brand in China's nail clipper industry"; Vantage's gas appliances are continuously In the same industry in the domestic sales ranked first; Evergreen's gas valve production standards are set as industry standards.

Leaded by the township government, Xiaolan Town set up a hardware industry cluster development joint conference and established a joint conference system to promote the development of industrial clusters. According to Mould Network CEO Luo Baihui, at present, the hardware industry in Xiaolan Town is expanded to include locks, gas appliances, casters, hinges, metal die casting, spray plating, molds, and sanitary ware. Products and other hardware products, as well as hardware accessories and other 10 kinds of relatively complete hardware industry chain, Xiaolan Town, industrial and economic leading industries.

In recent years, Xiaolan has increased its policy guidance to encourage companies to carry out independent innovation and promote the transformation and upgrading of the hardware industry. Each year, the town finances allocates 6 million yuan of special funds to carry out technical innovations and innovations, and establishes a reputation for excellence. It has established a support system for the provincial, municipal, and town level three technological innovation awards. At the same time, the “Technical Center for Hardware Products Industry in Xiaolan Township, Zhongshan City” was established. As a leader, a technological innovation system with three levels of enterprise technology innovation centers and enterprise engineering centers at the provincial, city, and town level was established. Improve the core competitiveness of the hardware industry. In the past three years, Xiaolan Town has established a total of 73 provincial and city-level enterprise technology centers and engineering centers, with an award of 10.7 million yuan. 106 township-level enterprise technology centers have been established.

Establish and improve various technology and intermediary service agencies to provide a service platform for promoting industrial upgrading. In Xiaolan Town, the “Productivity Promotion Center” was established. In the nine years since its establishment, the center has incubated 33 scientific and technological service entities. In 2008, the center was recognized by the “National Model Productivity Promotion Center” of the Ministry of Science and Technology and became the only town-level productivity promotion center in the country.

Xiaolan Town has established Hanyang Product Design Company, Hanyang Precision Mold Co., Ltd., and Tongpu Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. to provide deep-processing services for hardware companies according to the needs of common technologies and key technologies of industrial clusters. According to statistics, the Hanxin Modern Design and Manufacturing Service Center serves more than 200 companies each year, designing 80 new products, adding an industrial output value of 150 million yuan to enterprises, and adding more than 10 million yuan in profits and taxes.

At the same time, Xiaolan SME Innovation and Development Credit Guarantee Co., Ltd. was established to cooperate with 8 commercial banks in the town to solve the financing difficulties for SMEs with market prospects and development conditions. By the end of 2008, the total guarantee amount of the guarantee company reached 2.4 billion yuan, which directly stimulated the sales revenue of the company.

In addition, the town established a hardware product industry technology center, South China University of Technology Siu Lam Industrial Technology Research Institute and other institutions to promote cooperation between enterprises and scientific research institutions. In the first half of this year, Zhongshan Huadi Gas Appliance Co., Ltd., after setting up a state-level “gas-fired combustion simulation laboratory”, once again cooperated with Huazhong University of Science and Technology to jointly build a branch of the National Laboratory of Coal Combustion, a gas-fired unit joint experiment. room. Xiaolan Town has also set up a special chamber of commerce, which consists of seven industry branches including the Lock Industry Association and the Hardware and Plastics Industry Federation, two service companies, a **** window, and 468 chambers of commerce. So far, Xiaolan Town has developed three industry standards for locks including mortice locks, exterior door locks, and ball locks. Xiaolan Town has also set up a professional skills upgrading center to vigorously carry out hardware skills training. According to statistics, in 2008, 1,539 new skilled workers were trained in hardware.