Features on LED Street Lamp: 4 Trillion RMB Domestic Demand Stimulation Project Budget Lights The LED Street Lamps in China

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With the global economy stepping down sharply, China is still under the pressure of keeping Economic Growth Rate no less than 8% this year, which has been indicated a tough challenge by many signs. In the end of last year, the State Council of China urgently put forward the Ten Measures to Increase the Domestic Demand and Promote Economy Growth, planning to devote a total amount of 4 trillion RMB, about 5,860 billion U.S dollars, to stimulate the economy growth, and half of the budget will be devoted into infrastructure construction. Under budget support of so huge an amount, many local governments of China have launched their LED street lamp bids in succession.

 

The Central Committee supports energy-saving industry in public proclamation

In 2007, obsessed by the rising price and short supply of energy, Chinese government had begun paying more attention to energy-concerned policies and subjects, and has passed several statutes to encourage the energy industry growth. For example, Public Institution Energy-saving Statute was passed in July, 2008 in the State Council and has been started in October, 2008. It requests local governments to include energy-saving products into their collective purchase list and strictly monitor the energy consumption situation. Besides, Civil Construction Energy-saving Statute has been issued to regulate constructing companies to adopt appropriate renewable energy sources in warming, refrigeration, illumination and hot water supplying. On the other hand, these statutes above provide law reference for the local governments in purchasing LED and other relative energy-saving products. It can be estimated that the energy-saving policies would be fulfilled this year, and large amount of energy-saving products would be in heavy demand.

LED street lamp bids have been launched by local governments in succession

Except for the 4 trillion RMB construction plan, the EXPO shanghai, Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games, Jinan 11th National Games, Shenzhen 2011 Universiade are soon to be held in China. Complying with energy-saving statutes, all these host cities have began to replace the original street lamps with LED ones. Taking Tianjin for example, the government has calculated a total sum of between 4 billion to 5 billion for the lamp purchasing.

The principle of Guangdong Science and Technology Hall said, the LED street lamp project and the special Sci-tech demonstration of Guangdong has already been carried out in Dongguan as the first spot. The plan is that in 2 years, the Ten Thousand LED Lamps along One Thousand Kilometers Project would be realized in ten cities including Dongguan, Foushan, Huizhou, Zhaoqing, Zhongshan etc.

Since the opening date of 2010 EXPO Shanghai is coming, the bids for the street sight illumination and display board projects have been launched in succession. The EXPO Park has combined the natural riverside scenery of Huangpu Jiang, thus large amount of LED lamps are to be used for landscape illumination. Except for the application in landscape illumination, Chinese government also intently programmed to adopt LED street lamps as the road lighting source. The LED street lamp manufacturers all around the country have all got ready for that. The 2010 EXPO period is expected to be another climax of LED demand after the Olympic Games.


Viewpoint of LEDinside

In 2008, the capacity of the street lamp market in China was about 15 million sets, the number of LED lamps installed about 500 thousand. In 2009, although the LED street lamp standard of China is yet to be released, due to the approaching EXPO Shanghai, the LED street lamp biddings have already been in progress, thus LED estimates that in 2009, the number of the LED street lamp to be installed in China would be no less than 2.5 million sets.

The stimulated domestic market by encouraging policies will be a vital pillar to support the Chinese LED industry in 2009. From the Central Committee to local governments, the specification requirements and the purchasing amount, producing locally or outside and the installation and maintenance will all have a pushing effect on the growth of the LED market. Nevertheless, except for purchasing LED products from manufactures in Taiwan, Europe and U.S, the Chinese domestic LED manufactures are also to be supported by Chinese government. Besides the competition, more cooperation sparks are expected to be seen between the LED industries on both sides of the Straits