China's switchgear manufacturing industry faces three major difficulties

"At present, China's electric power industry's important transmission and distribution equipment - high and low voltage switchgear manufacturing industry has three major weaknesses, if this problem can not be given enough attention," the "Eleventh Five-Year" period is likely to become a constraint on the development of China's power industry The stumbling block.” This is the view put forward by Zhu Kaiyou, deputy to the National People’s Congress and chairman of Sichuan Huiyuan Technology Group, during the “two sessions” just concluded.

First of all, there are structural contradictions in China's transmission and distribution equipment, especially high and low voltage switchgear products. This is reflected in the high and low voltage switchgear manufacturing industry, although there are total advantages, but there are still many problems in product variety, grade and performance. Excessive competition in low-voltage products, 110kV and above products are in a weak position, and the number of intelligent products is small.

Second, the problem of the product quality system that prevails in Chinese companies has become a “bottleneck” that restricts the development of electricity. At present, in China's power companies, the improvement of quality and standards system is imminent. For example, "3C" certification enables companies to obtain timely information on international technology laws and regulations, technical trade measures, etc., which will help speed up product quality standards in line with international standards.

Third, China's power transmission and distribution products also face competition in the international market. With China's accession to the WTO, multinational corporations will further invest in China and implement a “localization” strategy. Foreign advanced high- and low-voltage switchgear equipment will enter the domestic market in large numbers, facing strong foreign competitors, and domestic companies’ original product prices. The advantage will be severely impacted. With the “West-to-East Gas Transmission”, “South-to-North Water Diversion”, and HVDC and DC networking projects initiated, the Yangtze River Three Gorges super-large hydropower station began to generate electricity, and large-scale projects such as “West Power Transmission to the East” entered the critical stage, with a large number of electrified railways, With the progress in the construction of highways, urban light rail, and subways, high- and low-voltage switchgear manufacturing industry has ushered in a rare market opportunity.