Several Problems in Creating Metal Tool City

In 2004, the output value of China's hardware products exceeded 250 billion yuan, exports were 19.97 billion US dollars, imports were 6.77 billion US dollars, and domestic consumer hardware and related products exceeded 150 billion US dollars. There are nearly 40,000 hardware manufacturing enterprises in China, and nearly 100,000 small-scale enterprises. There are more than 200 professional markets for hardware products with a certain scale. Building materials mainly cover the comprehensive market of hardware and electronic products. More than 2,000. There are more than 200,000 hardware distribution companies in the country, and nearly 1,000 hardware specialists or integrated markets of different scales.

The status quo of Qingdao hardware manufacturing and hardware commodity market Qingdao hardware production was developed earlier. Tool hardware, construction hardware, daily hardware, and locks have a long history of production. Some products occupy an important position in the country. Since the 1980s, the city's hardware industry has developed rapidly. At present, the city's hardware products are relatively complete categories, mainly hardware tools, construction hardware, household hardware, kitchen equipment and stainless steel products, range hoods, locks, cooking utensils, gas appliances, pressure gauges, welding torch, tape measure, Rigging and some manual and power tools occupy an important position in the national counterparts, creating a number of well-known brands in the domestic and foreign markets, such as the tape measure, Pisces Tool, Huaqing Instrument, Dimart power tools. At present, there are nearly 1,000 industrial and commercial enterprises in the city's hardware industry. In 2004, industrial enterprises above designated size achieved industrial added value of 1.24 billion yuan, sales revenue of 3.862 billion yuan, export delivery value of 1.316 billion yuan, and profits and taxes of 222 million yuan.

The hardware market in Qingdao has been greatly developed since the 1990s and currently forms several markets with a certain scale, mainly concentrated in Yan'an Sanlu Hardware Market, Liaoning Road Dacheng Market, Harbin Road Haicheng Market, Renmin Road and Wenzhou. Lu mechanical and electrical street, as well as major home hardware supermarkets. According to industry estimates, the annual sales revenue of the hardware commodity market in our city is between 8-10 billion yuan (due to its extensive coverage, there are no exact statistics).

Compared with the hardware manufacturing industry in our city, the development of the hardware market lags behind, mainly reflected in: First, the market is relatively scattered, and the scale is relatively small. At present, most of the city's hardware market is integrated with the building materials market. The market covers an area that is small and the types of hardware products are not abundant. Due to the impact of urban traffic control, large vehicles are not very convenient to enter and exit, and thus there is no specialization or scale. Hardware market. The second is that hardware products are mainly based on retail sales, and sales are relatively limited. At present, the city’s hardware products are mainly targeted at the local market, and there is no major trade, large circulation, or large-scale pattern of export, wholesale, logistics, and warehousing. Third, the quality of hardware products is uneven and there is a lack of orderly competition. Such as large supermarkets and other formal market product quality is guaranteed, but the price is high; individual industry product prices are low, but some product quality is not guaranteed. The main reason for this phenomenon is that the city has not yet formed a hardware market with a large scale and a full range of products that can provide consumers with more choice opportunities. Fourth, the industrial chain of the hardware commodity market has not really formed. In the market, there are many households in the hardware industry, and a large number of small and complete hardware product operators are concentrated in one market. There is a lack of detailed division of labor within the industry. The sales of goods cannot be professionalized and refined, and no real meaning is formed. The industrial chain has greatly weakened the huge advantages of cluster development.

Reflections on the Construction of Hardware Tools City In recent years, with the gradual establishment of a sustainable economic system with the four major industrial bases and the development of six major industrial clusters in Qingdao as the main content, the city’s industrial economy has seen strong growth. For several consecutive years, the city’s major economic indicators such as industrial added value and fixed assets investment have all increased by more than 20%. For the hardware commodity market, the good momentum of economic development in the city has increased the demand for hardware products, providing a rare opportunity for the development of large-scale specialized markets for hardware products.