At present, China has become the world's largest producer and consumer of locks. In 2008, the national lock production reached 1.48 billion, and the annual export volume reached 2.17 billion US dollars, occupying a pivotal position in the hardware industry. The overall capacity of China's traditional locks market is about 70 billion yuan. The manufacturers are mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shanghai and Shandong. In the category layout, Zhejiang Wenzhou forms a traffic lock manufacturing base, and Zhongshan Xiaolan is mainly locked with a door lock. Zhejiang Pujiang is mainly based on padlocks. According to statistics from authoritative departments, the growth of the lock market in 2008-2009 is over 20%, and there is still room for further growth.
Zhongshan Xiaolan locks: Zhongshan locks are mainly concentrated in Xiaolan Town, mainly based on door locks. Xiaolan Town actively promotes the development, optimization and upgrading of the hardware industry. The products are continuously upgraded, the added value continues to rise, and the domestic market share continues to increase. At present, the market share of “Guli” and “Huafeng” two lock brands has ranked first in the industry for many consecutive years; “St. Aaron” has been rated as “China Nail Clipper Industry Brand”
As early as 1986, Xiaolan Town was hailed as China’s “Southern Lock City”. In 2002, China Hardware Products Association named Xiaolan Town as “China Hardware Industry Base”. After winning this title, in 2004, he was awarded the title of "China Locks Export Base". In the afternoon of April 19, 2004, Xiaolan Town Lock Industry Association was formally established. Xiaolan Hardware Testing Center was established in June 2007 by Xiaolan Lock Industry Association.
At present, Xiaolan locks account for 40% of the Chinese lock market, accounting for 37% of the total export of locks in the country. Xiaolan, which has the reputation of “Southern Lock City” in China, has 315 lock companies and 1.4 workers in the lock industry. Ten thousand people. A few years ago, there were 4 enterprises with a production value of over 100 million yuan in Xiaolan Locks, with an annual output of 340 million locks. Representative companies have "solid" door locks and so on.
Pujiang lock: Pujiang lock industry has developed from a single padlock product to more than 300 varieties of drawer locks, anti-theft locks, motorcycle locks, door locks and so on. After more than 30 years of development, the scale of the Pujiang padlock industry has continued to grow and develop, becoming the country's large padlock production and processing base, product distribution center and export base. “China Padlock Center” and “China Padlock Production Base” have become one of the golden business cards for Pujiang to display its image.
At present, Pujiang has 739 manufacturers of padlock finished products and accessories, employing 20,000 people, padlock production exceeding 1.35 billion, and an annual output value of 3.795 billion yuan. In 1998, in order to promote the healthy development of the Pujiang lock industry, Pujiang established a padlock. Industry Association. Representative companies include Pujiang locks and so on.
Wenzhou locks: At present, Wenzhou is engaged in the manufacture of lock products and has a certain scale of more than 400 enterprises, including more than 60 large-scale enterprises with an annual output value of more than 50 million yuan, and 56,000 employees. The main products include mortise locks, ball locks, bicycle locks, motorcycle locks, and high-end mechatronic IC card locks, key locks, induction locks, and fingerprint locks developed and produced in recent years. Enterprises are mainly distributed in Bohai, Lucheng, Longwan, Yongjia, Ruian and other places.
In September 2002, China National Light Industry Association and China Hardware Products Association jointly awarded Wenzhou City the title of “China Lock Capital”. Zhejiang Locks Professional Trademark Base. In order to improve the quality of Wenzhou locks, in the second half of 2003, Wenzhou Hardware Chamber of Commerce raised more than 1 million yuan, and jointly established a lock product inspection center with relevant departments to better serve the "China Lock Capital".