China cable industry is facing restructuring, shuffling and other issues

Wire and cable products in accordance with the domestic industry customs can be classified into five categories: bare wire, electrical equipment, wire and cable, power cables, communication cable and optical cable, winding line. Existing wire and cable varieties have more than 2000 species, about 100000 specifications. Since 1939, Kunming cable factory produced China's first cable and the gradual development of the China's wire and cable industry, has experienced since the reform and opening up to the outside world by leaps and bounds, has been more than the United States, Japan, Europe, to become the world's largest wire and cable producer.

Overall, China's wire and cable industry has a number of small scale characteristics. According to statistics, as of the end of 2013 the size of the enterprise within the Chinese wire and cable industry reached 1 million, above scale enterprises have 3794, and the smaller companies are even more numerous. 2009-2013, wire and cable industry large enterprises accounted for the proportion of sales revenue increased year by year, in 2013 reached 19.78%, still maintain below 20%, industry concentration is still low, industry of developed countries with highly centralized characteristics formed bright contrast. Europe and the United States and other developed countries, such as wire and cable industry has passed a hundred years of development history, the market concentration is relatively high. Among the top ten in the United States has a market share of 67% of the market, Japan's top 65% share of six of the market, France's top five share of the market share of 90%.

By region, the main area of wire and cable manufacturing in China is in East China, South China and North China. And East China cable industry is more prominent, industry accounted for half of the, relatively speaking is enterprise development rapidly, competition is relatively concentrated, intense regions. The distribution of the natural formation is closely related to the geographical location, transportation, economy, talents and policy.

China wire and cable industry has experienced more than 20 years, has made considerable development, but still not out of the vicious circle, and the world's top business compared to a big gap. There are many problems, such as low industry concentration, the number of enterprises, the size of small scale, the scale economy is far from enough, the lack of independent innovation ability and product structural contradictions and so on. In the future, with the world economic pattern of continuous changes, China's cable industry is bound to face restructuring, shuffling. Especially in recent years, China's economic development in the face of energy, power, the bottleneck problem, the state continues to increase investment in electricity, making the industry into a leap forward.