Work in the cable industry in China, there is a general consensus - future mid-range cable product profit margin will be more and more low, coupled with the rising cost of raw material price fluctuations, artificial, squeezing more profit margins, until the cable production enterprise unprofitable. But on the contrary, as the country set off a new round of new energy construction, high-end cable products will be popular, research and development of high-end cable technology content is higher, and the threshold is higher, thus ensuring its objective profit margins. But it is a pity that so far, China's high-end market tends to be wholly owned by foreign companies and joint ventures, even if is the domestic large-scale cable production enterprise, in the high-end market, is difficult to reflect the competitive advantage.

In fact, as early as 2011 "wire and cable industry" twelfth five-year "development plan" (hereinafter referred to as the "planning") compiled by wire and cable branch of China electrical equipment industry association organization began, and publish the domestic cable industry and should be noticed in advance development of high-end products is the direction of the industry's future development. Such as in the "planning", the "three goals", the scientific research projects and new product advice, pointed out the direction for industry development.

The "three goals"

Keep industry steady economic growth, improve the quality and efficiency of development; Promote the development of industry of energy conservation and emissions reduction, green environmental protection, low carbon economy. To the "twelfth five-year" period, the scale of industry sales growth of 6-8%. The energy conservation and environmental protection has been the development of Chinese economy since "11th five-year plan", the theme of the cable industry should be cut, efforts to improve product and industry green components.

Enterprises should strengthen specialization do big, do fine, enhance the level of development of industrial clusters, optimize the industrial structure. Through industrial restructuring activities such as acquisition, merger, joint, to the end of the 12th five-year form two to five in the industry sales of 300-50 billion yuan and has certain international competitiveness of large enterprise groups, form 8 to 15 sales of 10 billion yuan and in the field of professional products with strong international competition ability of enterprise specialized characteristics, formed a batch of products, professional manufacturing capability is strong, distinctive form a complete set of relatively complete, different development area of cable industry cluster, forming a group of professional production characteristics and regional competitive advantage of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Innovation is the lifeline of the enterprise, cable enterprise wants to boost competitiveness, should strengthen the independent innovation, efforts to change the pattern of economic development. To strengthen the enterprise technology innovation ability, improve the research and development personnel accounted for and the structure of the r&d investment proportion; Advocate to establish industrial strategy technology alliance, the realization of joint research; During the "twelfth five-year", implement a group of high-end products, several industry breakthrough technology bottlenecks and product bottlenecks.

Scientific research project

In the wire and cable industry "twelfth five-year" development plan ", the cable section lists 9 scientific research project, respectively is high voltage crosslinked cable application base, Marine engineering series products and cable, optical fiber preform manufacturing technology, wire and cable material recycling technology, superconducting cable, 500 kv cross-linking cables and accessories, high voltage overhead transmission line domestic compound strengthening core materials and application of reliability, high solid content paint and Shanghai juji technology, the load carrying capacity and carrying capacity research in real time.

New product development

"Wire and cable industry" twelfth five-year "development plan" is also recommends some new products to the enterprise development direction, including 220 kv high-voltage cable accessories research and development, plant with localization of class 1 e category K1 cables, cable the development and perfection of aeronautics and astronautics, high-speed rail transit lines, new type optical fiber, all kinds of photoelectric composite cables, capacity of heat-resisting aluminum alloy development, high voltage dc cable plastic insulation development, ice and snow resistance wire, the damping conductor and low corona wire, corrosion resistant conductors such as the development of new type wire series.

And through the practice of recent years we have also found that "planning" and indicate clearly mentioned is correct. Now in the market for wire and cable, excess ordinary cable market products, the focus of the industry in the future tendency for high-end products, technology, environmental protection low carbon special cable. So, future investment in the industry of high-end products, ultra-high pressure ordinary cable, special cable materials and special cable direction, mainly includes: cable, submarine cable, oil platform cables for nuclear power, wind power cables, submersible pump cable, special cable for mine use, green cable, etc.

Typical special cable, for example, China's the eleventh five-year plan in 2020 and the basic principle of electric power development is to deepen the system reform, strengthen the construction of power grid, energetically develop renewable energy, optimize the development of hydropower, nuclear power actively, adjust measures to local conditions to develop natural gas power generation, active development of new energy power generation, carry out low carbon economy development, attach great importance to the protection of ecological environment, increase the intensity of technological transformation, improve the energy efficiency. According to the plan, to will achieve 2020 27-40 of 1000 mw nuclear power unit, the proportion of nuclear power will be increased from the current 1.8% to 4%, even up to 7% - 8%.

At present, wire and cable industry in the part of the enterprise has the production capacity of nuclear power cable, such as nuclear power in jiangsu up and cable, Qingdao, ningbo east, some companies such as star cable, the far east cable, but there is still a big gap, the market at present within the nuclear island cable still need a large number of imports.

At present, China's wire and cable industry the present situation of the low-end high-end products in short supply, suggested wire and cable industry should according to the requirement of the national economy industrial policy and market demand, actively adjust the product structure, vigorously develop high-end products, new industry growth point.

In summary, in recent years, the industry's main business income rising steadily year after year, has a great influence in addition to the financial crisis of 2009, the annual growth rate is low, the annual growth remained quite high, from 2010 to 2011, remained at about 30%, in 2012 because of the whole national economy, has fallen. Continuous high growth of industry revenue, explain the growth of the demand of the whole industry still has a certain space.

But because in the past few years, China simply rely on extensive investment in stimulating economic growth, investment in a large number of infrastructure construction, and the construction of infrastructure in the short term cannot repeat, the future state of infrastructure construction investment growth will decline, which will directly affect the overall growth of wire and cable industry, wire and cable industry in the future growth will decline.

Happily, along with the continuous development of new energy sources, will drive the demand for high-end products with cable directly, therefore it can be said that the cable industry in China, to advanced technology to the world!