LED road lighting: policy also needs to give way to the market

In 2013, with the National Development and Reform Commission and other six ministries jointly issued the 'semiconductor lighting energy-saving industry plan', the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the 'China's road map for gradually reducing mercury content in fluorescent lamps', from the central to the local, from the provincial level to the city and county level, more than ten semiconductor lighting related policies have been introduced intensively. It is not difficult to see that almost all of these policies have mentioned the promotion of LED street lamps. Local policies have sprung up, but are the policies previously formulated completely effective? What enterprises need, government policy support is a big damage to us. Yan Dapeng, general manager of Zhuhai Walmart Lighting Co. , Ltd. , who has transformed from traditional high-pressure sodium lamps to LED street lamps, said. The reason why I think so, Yan Dapeng told reporters that the market size of street lamps has been limited, coupled with the competition of traditional light source street lamps, profit margins will show a downward trend. However, the emergence of subsidies has LED many enterprises that did not use LED street lamps to participate, making the price of street lamps lower and lower. Enterprises can't make money by selling products, and they are all subsidized. Chen, president of China Energy Conservation crystal and Lighting Co. , Ltd. has a similar view. It should try to let enterprises compete in the market and the government should give less policies. The reason, Chen said, is that some local governments have adopted the strategy of winning the bid at a low price, allowing some small enterprises with low prices to use non-standard products that have not been invested in research and development funds in projects, if you only look at the price, enterprises with R & D strength and high quality requirements are definitely not dominant. Judging from the situation of the above two enterprises, the enterprises are all aimed at unreasonable places in the policies issued by various localities, such as only considering the price factor, while ignoring indicators such as product quality and enterprise investment in research and development. It is true that the problems mentioned by the two companies may be some of the unreasonable aspects of the policy, but there are other companies that have different views. Xiao Zhiyong, deputy sales director of LED marketing department of BYD Co. , Ltd. , said that Guangdong province has put energy conservation and emission reduction into practice. After the project was established, all cities and counties in Guangdong province signed a letter of responsibility, this can give full play to the effect of LED energy saving. To sum up, the view of enterprises is not to beat the policy to death, but the government needs to carefully demonstrate when formulating policies, and comprehensively consider the opinions of enterprises and users, formulate reasonable policies that are more suitable for the development of the enterprise itself and promote the development of the industry.