Top 10 Hot News in LED Industry in the First Half of the Year

In the first half of 2013, the LED industry has experienced ups and downs and hot spots in just half a year. All this has affected the entire LED industry to varying degrees. The decline in industry costs, although the company's profit margins are compressed, but the overall sales performance of the industry is gradually picking up, and all kinds of indications indicate that the entire lighting industry is experiencing unpredictable markets and unprecedented historical stages. In the middle of the year, let us review the ten hot events that deserve to be remembered in history.

NO.1 Shenzhen Development Plan was abolished

Recently, the "Government Gazette" announced by Shenzhen suddenly announced the repeal of the "Shenzhen LED Industry Development Plan (2009-2015)" that has been implemented for four years without any warning or explanation. In fact, this LED industry development plan has served as the official guidance document for the Shenzhen LED industry for the first-level government of Shenzhen in more than two years.

One stone provoked thousands of layers of waves. Under the background that domestic photovoltaic and other industries frequently burst into the winter of the industry, the Shenzhen LED industry plan was abolished, leaving the industry and companies concerned that the government's attitude towards the industry's planning and support has changed.

It is understood that the abolition of this plan is actually replaced by two other planning documents and policies. Shenzhen's attitude of supporting the rapid and healthy development of the LED industry in the city has not changed.

An industry that has been "eliminated out" plans to change the global financial, technological, and political environment. The technological development of the LED industry is advancing by leaps and bounds. The development of the industry is changing with each passing day. The Shenzhen LED industry development plan formulated in 2009 is no longer applicable in the "Official Gazette". Shenzhen suddenly announced the repeal of the "Shenzhen LED industry development plan (2009-2015)" (hereinafter referred to as "development plan") issued in March 2009. In the absence of any signs, the move appeared a bit sudden and unexpected.

In March 2009, when the development plan was introduced, the LED industry was considered one of the most promising high-tech fields in the world. At that time, Shenzhen City had established the "Shenzhen National Semiconductor Lighting Engineering Industrialization Base Joint Conference" to actively promote the development of the LED industry. In order to allow Shenzhen to develop favorable conditions for the rapid development of the LED industry in the next 5-10 years, development planning has emerged.

The abrupt repeal of development planning, in the eyes of the industry, also indicates that the development plan is somewhat out of place after four years. According to Li Hongcheng, the secretary general of Shenzhen LED Industry Federation, “The global financial, scientific and technological, and political environment are changing, LED industry technology is developing by leaps and bounds, and the industry is changing with each passing day. The Shenzhen LED industry development plan formulated in 2009 is no longer applicable.” .

Director of Shenzhen Semiconductor Lighting Industry Co-Innovation Center and Chairman of Shenzhen LED Industry Federation Yu Shirong said that when the development plan was introduced in the same year, it also had “Shenzhen to promote energy efficient semiconductor lighting (LED) product demonstration project implementation plan” and “Shenzhen The city promoted several measures for the development of the semiconductor lighting industry, including four supporting documents. In Qi Shirong's view, the development plan is only a macro content, and it only has some policies, but the specific measures are reflected in the supporting documents. “There are not many contents about subsidies and support in the development plan, but some of them contain more measures. The regulations are still in effect."

According to the development plan of the year, by 2015, Shenzhen will build an important demonstration base for China's LED industry technology innovation and an important global R&D and production base for LED products. The industrial scale will have an annual output value of more than 130 billion yuan. The reporter learned from public information that the overall output value of the LED industry in Shenzhen amounts to more than 85 billion yuan, accounting for “half of the country” in Guangdong Province and is expected to double by 2015. In addition, there are also arguments that Shenzhen's LED industry will reach 200 billion yuan by 2015. Undoubtedly, four years after the development plan was announced, the plan formulated by Shenzhen in the current year may not be able to lead the industry too much.

NO.2 Foshan Lighting "changes for the admiral"

May 29th report: At 8:30 am yesterday (May 28th), Foshan Lighting held the 2012 annual general meeting of shareholders to select a new company leadership. The current CEO of GE GE Water Treatment Group in Greater China and born in 1971, Pan Jie became the chairman of the board. Veteran Zhong Xincai said that he was older and would not be out of the mountain. It is said that Zhuang Jianyi, the actual controller of Foshan Lighting, appeared as a shareholder of Youchang Lighting Equipment Co., Ltd. in the shareholders' meeting yesterday.

According to a senior company source, OSRAM, the current majority shareholder, has promised to transfer core patented technology to Foshan Lighting, but the new chairman needs to communicate further.

The actual controller emerged from the board of directors who chaired Foshan Lighting in 41 years Zhong Xincai's demobilization. Just past 8 o'clock yesterday, the reporter saw the figure of the bell. He said to the early shareholders that because of his old age, he would basically not go out again.

The new Chairman Pan Jie, born in Shanghai in 1971, holds a bachelor's degree in electric light from Fudan University's Department of Light Sources and Lighting Engineering, a master's degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a master's degree in optics and optoelectronics from the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; School of Management, Fudan University /B1-Master's degree in Norwegian School of Management. At present, he is the CEO of GE-Water Treatment Group in Greater China.

Before the results of the election of the new board of directors and board of supervisors, the reporter interviewed Pan Jie and learned that the new leadership team will continue its previous operations. For example, in 2013, it will intensify efforts to develop LED products. According to the reporter's understanding, prior to this general meeting of shareholders, there had been internal news that Pan Jie became a new chairman of the company.

Focused on many years of Foshan Lighting, Ye Jun believes that from the current situation, the pattern of interests of Foshan Lighting has not changed, but the executive in front of the stage has changed.

For many years, the largest shareholder of Foshan Lighting was OSRAM Holdings Limited, and the second largest shareholder was Youchang Lighting Equipment Co., Ltd. The shareholding ratios were 13.47% and 10.5%, respectively, and neither of them was sufficient to become a controlling shareholder. The company's 2012 annual report shows that the company does not currently have controlling shareholders or actual controllers.

According to Ye Jun, the actual controller of Foshan Lighting is Zhuang Jianyi. It is understood that Zhuang Jianyi has been an important distributor of Foshan Lighting and OSRAM since the 1990s. It is not only a major shareholder of Foshan Lighting, an honorary citizen of Foshan City, but also a director and vice chairman of Foshan Lighting Company since 1995. He was also elected chairman of Foshan Electrical Lighting Co., Ltd. on May 27, 2010. On August 30th of the same year, due to "suspected violation of securities laws and regulations," the company accepted the investigation of the Guangdong Securities Regulatory Commission and resigned from the post of chairman of the company. The term of office is 96 days.

For the stockholding situation of Zhuang Jianyi and its related companies, the company's 2012 annual report also showed that Zhuang Jianyi holds 0.85% of shares as an overseas natural person, and its concerted action Renyou Lighting Equipment Co., Ltd. holds 10.5% of the shares. .

Ye Jun revealed that among the non-independent directors of the new board of directors, Zhuang Jianyi directly nominated Yang Jianhu who had a doctoral degree and was born in 1977. In addition, Zhuang Jianyi played a very important role in the new session of the board of directors, the board of supervisors, and the senior management team.

Representatives of the major shareholder OSRAM Group are Wu Shengbo, President of OSRAM Asia Pacific, and Vianna Hoffman, Asia Pacific Financial Controller.

NO.3 2013 Guangya Exhibition On June 9, 2013, it was regarded as the most comprehensive and forward-looking lighting event in the world - Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as "Guangya Exhibition") in Guangzhou, China import and export commodities trading The Pazhou Complex will be grandly opened.

According to the organizers, this exhibition attracted 29 countries and regions in the world, with more than 2,600 exhibitors and an exhibition area of ​​220,000 square meters. Exhibitors cover the entire industry chain from upstream, midstream, and downstream to terminal applications, bringing together global high-end brands including semiconductor raw materials, semiconductor chips, epitaxial wafers, packages, devices and components, electronic components, LED lighting, and displays. Screen, LED car, LED traffic, LED advertising, LED backlight and other items.

From the corporate level, this year's Guangya Exhibition attracted Philips, Osram, GE Lighting, Samsung LED, Cree, Seoul Semiconductor, Nichia Chemical, Future Electronics, Lumileds, QSSI, Illumitex, Toshiba, Matsushita Electric Works, Roma Semiconductor Group, Citizen, Delta Electronics, Lunda, Everlight, Aifei Sen, Jingke Electronics, Sanan Optoelectronics, Qinshang Optoelectronics, Foshan Lighting, BDO Runda, Zhen Mingli, National Star Optoelectronics, Hongli Optoelectronics, Zhou Ming Technology, TCL, Ruifeng Optoelectronics, Long Fang Lighting, Mao Shuo Power and other well-known domestic and foreign enterprises exhibited to build a high-end brand gathering place.

As the leading semiconductor lighting professional media in China, on the first day of Guangya Exhibition, we had an exclusive interview with Mr. Tang Guoqing, General Manager of Samsung LED China, Dr. Xiao Guowei, Managing Director of Jinke Electronics Guangzhou Co., Ltd., and Gong Weibin, Chairman of Ruifeng Optoelectronics. , Listen to their wonderful interpretation of the current hot and development status of the LED industry. As a specially invited media member, he participated in new product launches of international giants such as OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, GE Lighting and Cree.

NO.4 QinShang Optoelectronics suspected of fraudulent listing

Corporate listing just like a girl married. It is not a bad thing to apply powder, apply deodorants and wear yellow. However, if you want to go public, you can wear shoes, wigs, and masks in an unscrupulous manner.

In the history of A-shares, there are a lot of typical cases of fraudulent listing. There are both the Tonghai Hi-tech and Hongguang industries of the main board, as well as the green land of the small and medium-sized boards and the mountains and rivers of King Mountain. In the first half of 2012, the “Daily Economic News” detailed disclosure of the circumstances of the listing of counterfeit listings in the Guangdong New Territories that had been successfully held was even more shocking. Eventually the company failed to go public.

On March 16 this year, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange issued a condemnation announcement against Wan Fusheng and related parties. Wan Fusheng Branch admitted that there were false accounting records for financial data from 2008 to 2011, and accumulated inflated revenue was about RMB 740 million. Increased operating profit by about 180 million yuan, and inflated net profit by about 160 million yuan.

This year, on March 15th, the Chinese stock market ushered in a massive security sweeping across the north and south, with Zheng Jingwei, a lawyer of Guangdong Jingtian Law Firm, and Li Jian, a senior partner of Zhejiang Yufeng Law Firm, and Shanghai Huahua. Wing Law Firm Xu Feng lawyers and other 10 lawyers from 10 law firms across the country have publicly solicited claims from 10 “counterfeit” listed company investors including Foshan Lighting and Lubei Chemical.

However, just before and after “3·15”, the reporter of “Daily Economic News” made a breakthrough on the investigation of another small and medium-sized listed company suspected of fraudulent listing.

This is a LED star company that produces and sells LED lighting products, LED backlights and LED displays, LED drive power and control systems, LED chip packaging and sales, LED technology development and services, and contract energy management. It was listed on November 25, 2011 and raised more than 1 billion yuan for the first time. It is the photoelectric on the ground.

The reporter found in a survey and interview conducted in the past month that before Qinshang Optoelectronics was listed on the market in 2011, there was a situation in which internal employees established companies outside the company and then they purchased products from Qinshang Optoelectronics and became big customers and fictitious sales. However, these facts are concealed in the company's prospectus, and a large amount of factual evidence points to its alleged fraudulent listing.

NO.5 Sanan Optoelectronics encounter LED "questioning door"

Suspected financial fraud? Sanan Optoelectronics has been backdoored for five years. Although there are sounds from the market from time to time, it has never been as sharp as this time.

Recently, Xiamen Sanan Optoelectronics, which has successfully retired S*ST for five years, ushered in the most acute question. "Securities Market Weekly" accused Sanan of the optoelectronic shelling since the listing, not only more than half of profits from government subsidies, and its LED lights, LED chips, gold scrap recycling of three major business problems, related to large customers are unrelated to deal with, The Tianjin and Wuhu projects are also suspected of inflating investment.

According to reports, the price of LED street lights provided by Sanan Optoelectronics to local governments is much higher than the market price, especially in Quanzhou and Anxi, even exceeding the market price by three times. These street lights are purchased from outside and are not "designed and produced" by themselves. In addition, the street light contract signed with local governments not only has problems in execution, but also is suspected of violating government procurement laws.

Among the top five customers of Sanan Optoelectronics, in addition to the Wuhu Housing and Construction Committee, the Huainan Urban Construction Committee, Quanzhou SDIC, and Anxi SDIC, which received procurement from the local government's street lamps, the three companies with the highest frequency were Shenzhen Anpolight Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. , Shenzhen Tiandian Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. and Xinda Optoelectronics. Some of the shareholders of these three companies live in Xiamen. Most of them are the Anxi villagers of Lin Xiucheng, the chairman of Sanan Optoelectronics, and they have a complicated relationship with Sanan Optoelectronics.

If the query comes true, it means that Sanan Optoelectronics is suspected of financial fraud, and the next face will not only be the punishment of the Securities Regulatory Commission, but also may trigger a series of stockholders’ litigation claims.

On the same day when the media accused San'an there were many problems, the relevant personage of Sanan Optoelectronics was still emphasizing that “they would not be suspended.” However, only on the next day, April 2, Sanan Optoelectronics immediately suspended the license and issued a clarification announcement that night.

According to the announcement, Sanan Optoelectronics denied the concealment of related party transactions and indicated that there was no inflated investment situation. Sanan Optoelectronics stated that Cinda Optoelectronics is a subsidiary of Xiamen Xinda Co., Ltd. and Xiamen Xinda Co., Ltd. holds a 10.00% stake in Sanan Optoelectronics' controlling shareholder Xiamen Sanan Electronics Co., Ltd. and indirectly holds Sanan Optoelectronics 3.5%. There was no control, joint control or significant influence between the shares, Sanan Optoelectronics and the controlling shareholder and Xiamen Xinda.

As for the "Sanan Optoelectronics holds 20% stake in Anxin contract energy," Sanan Optoelectronics countered that since the establishment of Anxin Contract Energy Co., Ltd., Sanan Optoelectronics has not invested in or held its equity, and there is no related relationship; In addition, there is no connection between An Puguang and Tiandian mentioned in the report and Sanan Optoelectronics.

The data shows that since the backdoor was listed in 2008, Sanan Optoelectronics has received a total of up to 2.9 billion yuan in various nominal subsidies. Regarding the query that "performance relied heavily on government subsidies," Sanan Optoelectronic just stated that as the equipments are gradually put into use and produce benefits, the profits of LED's main business are increasing year by year, the proportion of subsidies will be less and less, and the subsidies will have a bearing on the company's future performance. The impact will be smaller and smaller.

According to an analyst from Xiamen Qilu Securities, the announcement by Sanan Optoelectronics is still unclear. “The Sanan Optoelectronics' clarification announcement, while admitting that the street lights outsourcing the self-confidence Da Optoelectronics, does not deny that the high-price resale streetlights and related contracts did not pass the public tendering and bidding procedures, but strongly denied the concealment of connected transactions and the inflated assets. Related reports questioned There is a related transaction for Cinda Optoelectronics and Sanan Optoelectronics, not Xiamen Cinda. The object of the clarification announcement was wrong.”

NO.6 Wu Changjiang returns to NVC

NVC Lighting announced on the afternoon of June 4 that Wu Changjiang, the founder of the company, will return to NVC Lighting's board of directors and become an executive director.

Wu Changjiang has been selected as the candidate for the new director of NVC Lighting. At the same time, he was recommended by Wang Dongming, the younger brother of Wang Donglei, the current Chairman of NVC, and Wu Ling, who has many years of experience in LED lighting. On June 21, NVC Lighting will hold an annual general meeting. The candidates for these new directors will be announced at that time.

In the middle of last year, Wu Changjiang once left NVC Lighting's board of directors and management. NVC Lighting experienced an internal storm. In December of last year, Wu Changjiang transferred some of his shares to BDO Runda, helping Dehao Run reach a new major shareholder in NVC Lighting, ending the situation in which NVC Lighting's major shareholders are evenly matched. In return, Wu Changjiang will acquire BDO Runda's non-public offering of shares, which is expected to become the second largest shareholder of BDO Runda.

The industry believes that Wu Changjiang’s move is to “retreat into progress” and use external forces to return to NVC Lighting's senior management and board of directors. Sure enough, in January this year, Wu Changjiang was re-appointed as the CEO of NVC Lighting. In April this year, Wang Donglei, chairman of BDO Runda, took over as the new Chairman of NVC Lighting. This paved the way for Wu Changjiang to return to the board of directors.

By the end of June, NVC Lighting's board will "change face." Wu Changjiang and Wang Dongming have been recommended as executive directors of the company, and Wu Ling has been recommended as an independent non-executive director. Wu Yuchang, the executive director and deputy president of NVC Lighting and Vice President Mu Yu, was no longer recommended as a director this time. Even so, plus chairman Wang Donglei, the "pro-Wu faction" has occupied half of the NVC lighting board.

This does not mean that there is no check and balance between Wang Donglei and Wu Changjiang. Wang Dongming is a clever piece. Wu Changyong, the younger brother of Wu Changjiang, is the vice president of NVC Lighting, responsible for procurement and logistics management. In the past, Wang Dongming has also assisted his older brother Wang Donglei to manage the business of BDO Runda. He is currently an executive director, deputy general manager and financial controller of BDO Runda. Once Wang Dongming was elected as the executive director of NVC, he could also help Wang Donglei to strengthen the supervision of NVC Lighting's operation and finance.

Introducing BDO Runda, another important intention of Wu Changjiang is to promote the transformation of NVC Lighting to LED. BDO Runda's LED chips can form an upstream and downstream industry chain with NVC lighting application products and sales channels. Wu Ling has become a new director candidate for NVC Lighting, which also reflects NVC Lighting's eagerness for transformation. Wu Ling, 55, has served as the director of the Semiconductor Lighting Major Project Management Office of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and the chairman of the International Semiconductor Lighting Alliance for the first time. He has nearly a decade of experience in the LED lighting industry.

NO.7 Guzheng Xiong remembered the owner of "Running Road"

On July 2, the owner of the Guzheng Town Lighting Factory was suddenly evaporated. More than 300 employees were not paid and the amount was about RMB 1 million. What is even worse is the dozens of suppliers of the Hung Kee Lighting Factory. It is understood that they were swindled by tens of thousands of yuan for fraudulent cheques by the factory owner Xie Yingxiong. According to a rough report, the reporter found that of the 38 suppliers registered by the Guzhen Town Comprehensive Office, only 24 suppliers had been deceived with a total amount of 16.059 million yuan. According to the supplier’s estimate, the fare is as much as about 40 million yuan.

It is understood that these empty cheques all come from the Heyuan Xinshi Branch of the China Construction Bank. Some cheques are issued in the coming months.

Retaliation: The lighting factory owner ran off the road. "The male owner of the Hung Kai Lighting Factory ran off. We dozens of suppliers gathered at the factory door to ask for debts, and they defrauded us of the purchase price of at least 40 million yuan." Yesterday morning, The reporter received a press release saying that Xie Yinxiong, owner of Guzheng Kee Lighting Factory, was inexplicably evaporating, and the supplier discovered that all the cheques he had issued before became vacant cheques, and the amount of money fraudulently or in arrears amounted to tens of millions of yuan.

At noon yesterday, the reporter saw 10 suppliers in the Guzhen Town Comprehensive Management Office. “We are a factory in Henglan. We began operations in June last year. At the end of last year, our customer ran off. As a result, we lost 50,000 yuan. This year, we encountered a loss of 300,000 yuan when the male boss runs away.” Miss Luo said that he had opened a small factory with more than 10 people, but the profitable part had allowed the customers to take the road.

NO.8 Guangdong Science and Technology Director Wang Xinghua “Checked”

In the afternoon of July 26th, it was learned from the Guangdong Provincial Commission of Discipline Inspection that, according to the relevant person in charge of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party secretary and head of the Provincial Science and Technology Department Li Xinghua was suspected of serious violation of discipline and was under investigation.

The 55-year-old Li Xinghua is a five-Chinese in Meizhou, Guangdong. Since April 2007, he has served as the director of Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology.

Before he lost his job, Guangdong Province just held the eighth provincial conference of the Provincial Science and Technology Association on July 23. Li Xinghua was also elected Vice Chairman of the Eighth Committee of the Provincial Association for Science and Technology at this conference.

On the 23rd day, Li Xinghua was busy with his business. He first participated in activities such as the opening ceremony of the Science and Technology Association, and went to Guangdong Radio to participate in the live broadcast of the "People's Voice Hotline" at noon.

In the program, Li Xinghua headed a team to meet with the Guangdong Provincial Government’s ethical review team and responded to the Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology System Corruption Case. He said that supervision and auditing of science and technology funds should be done well.

The Bureau of Science, Technology and Information of Guangzhou City had exposed a series of cases in May 2013. The Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Guangzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection later confirmed that Xie Xuening, the director of the Guangzhou Branch of the Bureau of Letters and Letters, was under investigation for suspected violation of the law.

After the show ended, he also told the media that from the beginning of next year in 2014, all major projects involving core technology public relations and other areas with a capital of more than 1 million should be made public on the website of the Provincial Department of Science and Technology.

On the 24th, Li Xinghua received the news from the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.

The official website of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Department shows that as party secretary and director, Li Xinghua presided over the office of the party and government work, in charge of the Personnel Department and the Conditional Finance Department, and was responsible for contacting the Provincial Productivity Promotion Center.

In this regard, a LED industry veteran said: LED can not do without the contribution of the Office of Science and Technology, but the merger of government and business is indeed a risk, behind the estimated larger earthquakes, involved more widely.

He pointed out that the Guangdong Province Science and Technology Department's funding and policy support for LED projects played a certain role in promoting the development of the LED industry in Guangdong. However, in the process of implementation, it is inevitable that corruption and backdooring will occur. For some enterprises that lack government operations and public relations capabilities, they are unfair. This incident reflects the chaos of the LED industry. In the future, there may be more individuals or institutions involved in the industry, which will have a certain negative impact on the development of the LED industry in Guangdong. The subsequent development of this incident remains to be seen.

NO.9 Op lighting repeatedly posted "quality door" black list

The leading company in the industry, Op Lighting, is stepping into the capital market. According to the “Information on Basic Information for Initial Public Offering (IPO) Filing Companies” announced on June 7 by the China Securities Regulatory Commission website, Op Lighting has entered the initial trial of the IPO and plans to be listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in the near future. This news caused a great wave in the industry, because Op lighting has always been in the whirlpool of quality. In the past three years, it has made four unqualified “black list” products, and the “black list” regulars can also successfully Is listing and listing unrelated to product quality?

Op lighting started the process of listing. Recently, the scandals of listed companies in the lighting industry have emerged in an endless stream. NVC Lighting has just “settled” the “investment” war has just subsided, and Foshan Lighting has fallen into a spurious turmoil. In the dark clouds, op lighting, another giant in the lighting industry, has begun its journey of actively seeking listings.

According to the "Basic Information of Initial Public Offering (IPO) Declaration Enterprises" announced on the website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission on June 7, Op Lighting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Oup Lighting") intends to be listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange with an audit status of "In preliminary examination." Entering the IPO preliminary list means that Op Lighting has already stood at the threshold of listing.

Op Lighting is a famous lighting company in the home appliance industry. Its official website shows that the company was founded in August 1996. It is an integrated lighting company that integrates R&D, production and sales. It has more than 6,000 employees and covers products. In the areas of light sources, lamps, lighting control and other fields, it has a number of production bases such as the Shanghai Headquarter, Zhongshan Industrial Park, and Wujiang Industrial Park. There are more than 30 offices in China, and there are more than 30,000 terminal sales outlets in various domestic channels. On its official website, Op Lighting has described its strong technical strength: “Having industry-leading production lines for energy-saving lamps, ceiling lamps, brackets, electrical appliances and other products, as well as R&D centers with complete facilities, advanced technologies, and elite gatherings. We have established the most complete professional laboratory in EMC, distributed photometry and other industries, and have a professional and technical team composed of hundreds of excellent talents led by the industry's top experts and senior engineers.” At the same time, Op Lighting has received too much Such heavyweight honors as "China Famous Brand Products", "China Famous Brand", "2007 Leaders - CCTV's Best Employers of the Year" and so on.

Ding Long, vice president of Op Lighting, said in an interview with the media that LED and traditional lighting have different profit margins. At present, LED is an emerging market, the market is not transparent, and the standard is not clear. Large traditional lighting companies have not fully involved in LED companies. The overall quality of small enterprises is worrying and the prospects are not clear. “The entire LED industry is in a rising period, and 8,000 companies will eventually have 80 of them.” It is understood that Op lighting will be this year as the first year of Op lighting to start the LED commercial market. The Optronics lighting business division will achieve an annual sales growth rate of over 70% in 2013 in home, light, commercial and electrical industries. Op Lighting is rapidly taking over LED market share and trying to become one of the “leftover” companies in the competition.

It stands to reason that the listing of such a "strength brand" should win a clap, but many people in the industry are skeptical, because Op lighting is seeking a listing in the quality vortex.

NO.10 Enterprise Baotuan "Breakthrough" Foreign Patent "Enclosure"

Under the current background of rapid development of the LED industry, international industrial giants are quietly applying for a large number of core technology patents, and set up a very tight patent network as a competitive weight. In the face of foreign patent "encirclement and suppression", Dongguan City set up a LED patent alliance yesterday to try to "break through" with the company's strategy of embracing the group and actively respond to overseas intellectual property risks. It is understood that the alliance will establish an LED patent database and patent navigation system, while providing companies with litigation and anti-litigation services.

Currently, there are 13 LED companies joining the alliance. In the course of developing the LED industry in recent years, patent rights are increasingly becoming one of the main tools for international corporate giants to engage in market competition, and they are playing an increasingly important role. It is understood that the core patent technology in the LED upstream chip field is mainly concentrated in several foreign companies in Japan, Philips, OSRAM. In the past year, there have been noticeable increases in the number of Chinese LED companies that have been involved in patent litigation. In addition, there are many foreign competitors that have patents and will send letters directly to China's downstream customers suspected of infringing LED companies overseas. As downstream customers are afraid of joint and several liability, they will often stop purchasing LED products in China.

In response to this risk of overseas intellectual property rights, Dongguan, which is developing the LED industry, began preparations for the LED Patent Alliance as early as a year ago. Until yesterday, the alliance was officially established. Currently, there are 13 LED companies joining the alliance.

Lu Jun, secretary-general of the Dongguan Intellectual Property Association, said: “With the outward-looking development trend of the LED industry in Dongguan, corporate intellectual property risk has become an unavoidable issue. The establishment of this alliance is mainly to enable alliance members to reduce the input costs of intellectual property rights. Build a shared information platform, actively respond to overseas intellectual property risks, and provide professional services and consultation in the patent technology field for the LED industry in the city.”