"Twelfth Five-Year" Shanghai LED industry output value reached 100 billion yuan

Zhu Weihua, deputy director of the Electronic Information Industry Department of the Shanghai Economic Information Commission, said in an interview with the “Perception of Shanghai” series that according to preliminary estimates, a total of 1.03 billion LED chips will be used in the Expo Park, and the actual number may exceed 1.5 billion. About 80% of the indoor lighting sources in the Expo venues use LED green light sources. He also revealed that the output value of the LED industry in Shanghai's "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" may reach 100 billion yuan.

Zhu Weihua introduced that since Shanghai became the national semiconductor lighting engineering industrialization base in 2005, it has basically established a relatively complete industrial chain, especially at the two ends of the industrial chain: LED upstream epitaxial wafer, chip and downstream application links have Certain advantages. Tang Guoqing, general manager of Career China Market Development, told the Morning Post reporter that the advantage of Shanghai's development of LED is talent, and its quality is high and cheap.

Wang Sizheng, director of the Shanghai Information Center, said that the LED industry in Shanghai has certain advantages. The Shanghai 12th Five-Year Plan should include LEDs in strategic emerging industries.

However, LED lighting is still concentrated in commercial lighting, and it will take some time for home LED lighting to be promoted. Zhu Weihua explained that once the cost is controlled, people will enter the era of LED lighting after incandescent, fluorescent and energy-saving lamps.