LED project lighting: a big cake waiting for share

The temptation of domestic LED project lighting is unbeatable. In the 2008 Olympics, LED lighting applications attracted people’s attention for the first time. More than 500,000 high-powered LED bulbs, 37,000 special sets for LED lamps, totally 50,000 square meters lighting area, the splendid Water Cube is a new miracle in the architecture history. LED lighting technology was also used in the opening ceremony, which gave the world a deep impression.

 

The temptation of domestic LED project lighting is unbeatable. In the 2008 Olympics, LED lighting applications attracted people’s attention for the first time.

 

Subsequently, in the 60th Anniversary Gala of the National Day, 4028 performers dressing with small LED lights in Tiananmen Square constituted the theme “Light Cube” performance. The colorful LED lighting effect reproduced the sutra in the Beijing Olympics.

 

In 2010 Shanghai World Expo, LED project lighting again became a focal point. That grand event became the world’s biggest LED show and the Expo site also became the world’s largest LED demonstration area at that moment. More than 2 million LED units were used on the one kilometer-long Expo axis. And about 1.03 billion LED chips were used within the entire Expo site. About 80% lighting sources in the venues are LED lamps.

 

In past few years, LED project lighting applications were not only used in large venues, but also in infrastructures and other municipal projects, such as rail ways, airports, subways, railway stations, tunnels, urban roads, even public gardens.

 

In early 2009, the State Ministry of Science and Technology launched the “Ten City, Thousands Lamps” semiconductor lighting program. This plan covered 21 large cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Nanjing, etc. Quickly, this program extended to 50 cities. By 2010, 21 pilot cities all started the LED street reconstruction works. Chongqing, Weifang, Dongguan, Baoding already had their LED street lighting standards. Especially in Weifang, the coverage rate of LED street lights has reached 84%. It is estimated that at the end of this year the entire city can realize a full coverage of LED street lighting applications.

 

LED project lighting applications also played an important role in landscape lighting. LED lamps has become the primary choice for government procurement in many areas, like city building lighting projects, landscape lighting projects, city square lighting projects. In large LED industrial bases, like Shenzhen, Xiamen, Ningbo, Tianjin, the traditional landscape lighting applications are replacing by LED landscape lighting applications. This process is accelerating. In Hefei, the coverage of landscape lighting LED lamps has reached up to 70%.