After the draft “the promotion and popularization of LED lighting applications in Guangdong Province” released by the Guangdong Government, many local governments (like Dongguan, Shenzhen, Taishan, Shantou, Zhongshan, ect.) in Guangdong Province put forward their developing plan for LED lighting industry successfully. In addition, Hubei, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Hebei also promoted similar government-support policies in this area. The launch of these support policies was treated as a boost of domestic LED lighting industry. However, after a period of applauses and cheers, some people started to doubt the feasibility of such forced promotion.
Regional replacing technology is not mature, plus LED lighting industry is still in the early stage, lacking of core technologies and standards. It is hard to avoid suspicions of the feasibility of government support policies. What is more critical, the producing of LED products needs a lot of non-ferrous metal resources, which is actually violate the energy-saving, low-carbon, environmental protection concept. Abiding by the law, ignore the critical lighting efficiency, rely on relationships, have become unspoken rules of domestic lighting industry. If this phenomenon is rectified as soon as possible, the economy will suffer even greater losses.
Whether LED lighting business should be promoted forcedly? About this issue, people have different opinions. As the fourth generation lighting source, LED has obvious advantages: low-carbon and energy-saving. Clearly, LED will take place of other traditional lamps in the future.
Firstly, LED lighting applications can reduce the power consumption and consequently reduce the carbon dioxide emissions. Secondly, LED has very limited influences on environment, nearly zero pollution. It is understand that the popularization of LED Panel Light products is significant for the sustainable development of our country. In accordance with the current situation, the popularity of LED lighting products is still very low. Due to their over-expensive selling prices, they are hardly accepted by common users. Thus promoting is necessary.
LED is bound to replace traditional lamps, plus the promotion is also necessary. Does all these mean force promotions necessary? The answer is no. The popularization of LED should not only take into account of the trend of development, but also follow the law of development. Presently, a large number of domestic LED companies still in the immature stage, forced promotion of LED products will spoil them.