Hardware: refers to gold, silver, copper, iron, tin five metals. After manual processing can be made into knives, swords and other art or metal ware. Hardware in modern society is more extensive, such as hardware tools, hardware accessories, daily hardware, building hardware and security supplies, and now the hardware is commonly used in metal or copper and iron products.
The further use of metals played an important role in the development of human civilization. Metal products appear in every corner of economic life, political life and military activities. For example, Yongkang in Zhejiang Province, known as the “hometown of 100 people” since ancient times, has a long history of hardware handicraft industry. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, the coppersmiths and ironfarriers in Yongkang have moved from the south to the north and left the countryside to make a living. There is a saying in history: “Hardware craftsmen can’t go out of the state.”
History into the modern industrial society, metal hardware products industry has developed rapidly, hardware industry has played an immeasurable role in the development of the national economy, hardware products have become an indispensable industrial link in industrial manufacturing.
China’s hardware industry should not only give play to the basic advantages of traditional industries, but also constantly promote the upgrading of industrial structure, improve the market competitiveness of high-end products, realize the transition from labor-intensive industry to technology-intensive industry as soon as possible, and shorten the gap with the advanced level of international hardware industry.
China’s hardware market has a broad prospect, and the hardware industry is developing rapidly. Both the quantity of products and the scale of production have been improved and developed by leaps and bounds. However, China’s huge consumer market continues to attract the attention of foreign hardware enterprises, and more and more multinational hardware companies appear in the Chinese market.
With the development of hardware industry more and more mature, how to make the industry with sustainable productivity and competitiveness, industry development and enterprise survival must consider the problem.
Post time: Jan-16-2023