December 6, China Household Electrical Appliances Association, the third three councils and five executive council held in Guangzhou from Haier, the United States, Hisense, A. O. Smith, Bosi appliances, Boss, TCL, Whirlpool, Meiling, Nine Yang, Macro, Vantage, Samsung, LG, Wanbao, high sea, Geshe Bella More than 120 representatives of complete machine and accessory enterprises attended the meeting.
At the meeting, Jiang Feng, chairman of China Household Electrical Appliances Association, summarized the work of the Association in 2017. The conclusions include promotion of energy conservation and environmental protection, promotion of standards work, holding of technical seminars to assist industrial technological progress, participation in the revision of national policies and regulations, organization of more Industry conferences and other related work.
Jiang Feng said that 2017 is the best growth year for China's home appliance industry in the past five years and the China Household Electrical Appliances Association experienced an extraordinary year in 2017. In each of the vice chairman, executive director, director unit and all members Encouraged and spurred by the fact that the association has "never forgotten the beginning," all aspects of work are based on the principle of meeting the actual needs of members and practicing the theoretical principle that "the market plays a decisive role in the allocation of resources" and coordinating the efforts of governments, industries and enterprises The relationship between the maintenance of the development of the whole industry and the overall interests of the common interest for the healthy development of industry to create a harmonious environment.
For the next 2018 key work plan, Jiang Feng said that in 2018, China Household Electrical Appliances Association will continue to strengthen communication with members and improve service levels to better pay attention to the political and economic development at home and abroad, timely collection of data and dynamic Information, analysis of industry development status and trends.At the same time, play a role as a bridge between the industry organizations, and actively promote the standard work of groups to promote technological exchanges and innovation and development, carry out trade activities needed by the industry, the government departments in a timely manner to reflect the development of the industry and business Appeal for the government to formulate industrial policy comments and suggestions for the home appliance industry for a good policy environment and promote the healthy development of the industry.
In order to give participants a more comprehensive understanding of the status quo and trends in the industry, Luo Yuanyuan, director of the Information Department of the Association, made a report on "Operation and Outlook of the Household Appliances Industry in 2017. The report shows that in 2017 China's product technology and structure upgrades will be accelerated , Economic indicators continued to improve.Production of home appliances have improved over the previous two years, most of the output of products in an expansion trend.Refrigerator reversed the decline for two consecutive years; air conditioners hit the best in history; washing machine performance overall stable ; Microwave ovens and rice cookers continued the high growth trend; range hoods, vacuum cleaners, electric fans, electric baking appliances, drinking fountains are optimistic.
With the acceleration of urbanization, the per capita disposable income of residents has increased and their spending power has been raised. China's home appliance products have begun to shift from pervasive consumption to structural consumption. The characteristics of high-end, smart, healthy, energy-saving and fashionable products are even more apparent in household appliances In addition, the emerging categories such as smart toilets, dishwashers, embedded kitchen appliances and so on have also begun to transition from the transitional period, the market has great potential.
Exports, Luo Yuanyuan pointed out that with the warming of the world economy, the RMB exchange rate steady rise, the export of electrical appliances in 2017 continued to improve.According to the statistics of the customs, the first half of the total exports 310.5 billion US dollars, an increase of 7.7% over the same period last year, of which the first The first quarter increased by 5.9% and the second quarter increased by 8.8% .In the second half of the year, the growth rate dropped slightly, but the export continued its good trend .In October, the export value was 4.68 billion U.S. dollars, up 14.5% over the same period of last year.
It is worth mentioning that the household electrical appliance enterprises in 2017 to increase investment in research and development.Many outstanding household electrical appliance enterprises will be product innovation as a major competitive advantage and the company's important development strategy by continuing to increase research and development to lead the market trend.In addition, Capital investment, China's household electrical appliance enterprises Hi active in the global R & D resources layout, resume development mechanism and platform to attract world-class resources to participate in research and development.Up to now, Haier has 10 open world R & D centers around the world, the United States established in 8 countries around the world 17 R & D centers.
After experiencing the development of electrification and automation, human society is moving towards a new era of intelligence, and intelligence has gradually infiltrated into daily life from the sophisticated industries. Nowadays, intelligence has been used as the standard Equipped with the majority of home appliances market selling point, equipped with wifi-enabled products in the market have been commonplace, smart appliances began to move from a single product to multi-device interoperability scene mode upgrade.YeKang data show that in 2016 smart white products With a retail sales of 44.3 billion yuan, accounting for 14.9% of the total retail sales of white goods, retail sales of smart white goods are expected to increase by 60% over 2017 and that of white goods to 24%.
Of course, the rapid development of smart appliances, while also facing the standards and protocols are not uniform, serious product homogeneity, user experience is not strong, high cost, complex operation and other issues, is still in the early stages of exploration and development. On the China Household Electrical Appliances Association officially released the first smart home appliance interconnection and interoperability team standards, it can be said that this standard for the popularization and development of smart home appliances laid the foundation.
At the meeting, in addition to introducing the macro situation, Wan Chunhui, director of the Standards and Regulations Department of China Household Electrical Appliances Association, introduced and shared the current regulatory policies and policies and the key work items of the China Household Electrical Appliances Association in this field. Wan Chunhui pointed out: At present, the association has perfected the formulation and management of corporate standard work management and released two batches of formulation plans for a total of seven association standards, meanwhile completed and promulgated the first association standard "standards for interconnection and exchange of smart appliances." To the overall goal of standardization reform, Wan Chunhui also made The interpretation is that the establishment of government-led standards and market-developed standards for coordinated development, coordination and supporting the new standard system.
In this meeting, in addition to earnestly listening to the relevant contents of the meeting, the representatives of the participating enterprises shared their opinions and thoughts on the current situation of the industry and the work of the association during the communication session. As a whole, During the forecast of the development trend of the industry in one year, all the representatives expressed their positive and optimistic attitude and emphasized that the transformation and upgrading and the dominant innovation are the only way for the future development of the household electrical appliance enterprises and also the goal of all enterprises to work together.