In the 1990s, after more than a decade of reform and opening up, the hardware industry has developed rapidly. Enterprise ownership began to shift to private ownership. The industry began to move spontaneously to China's fast-growing economy, guangdong, zhejiang, jiangsu, Shanghai and shandong. In these areas at the same time the government began to realize that the development of characteristic industry has become an engine to promote the growth of the local economy and to absorb the labor employment and promotes the structure optimization of industries, conducive to the healthy development of regional economy and so on all have obvious promoting effect, thus has formed the industry association and local government effort to develop characteristic industrial base of the gratifying situation.
So far, the association and local government have built 34 distinctive industrial bases. According to the association of title of "China's hardware industry characteristic regional management method named" naming categories to classify: existing Chinese hardware products of all nine, namely: China city (shunde) gas stove, kitchen utensils and appliances of (shengzhou), China locks (wenzhou), China valve city yuhuan, China of zipper (jinjiang), China of lighters (ningbo), China elbow pipe fittings capital (taking mengcun), daily hardware capital of China of loops (danzao), China (the bridge); There are 20 hardware industrial bases in China, namely: China's hardware base city (jieyang), China hardware industry base (xiaolan), faucet production base in China (nozzle), stainless steel products production base in China (new), metal case lighter production base in China (wenzhou), lighter production base in China (Xia Yi), razor production base in China (wenzhou), metal products production base in China (yuyao), faucet production base in China (yuhuan), China slide rail industry base hinge (flow), China's industrial base (flow) and tool industry base in China (jinhua), China hutch defends accessories industry base (fenghua river mouth), China's industrial manufacturing base (shower room Zhongshan), China building hardware industry base (local), China wire mesh industry base, anping, China sanitary ware accessories base (xiaoshan party), the zipper production base in China (shantou), zipper industry base in China (yiwu), China's hardware industry industry and trade city (linyi hedong); Has the Chinese hardware of the township (town) 5, namely: China's rural shower room (xiaoshan nanyang), the hometown of China stainless steel products (color pond), the hometown of China zipper (the bridge), the hometown of hardware, yongkang, the town of China hardware (cityof).
Of the 34 industrial bases, 28 are in guangdong and zhejiang provinces, accounting for 85% of the total. Of these, 17 are in zhejiang province; 11 guangdong province; Hebei province 2; Shandong, henan, jiangsu, fujian each one. According to product category, seven comprehensive classes; 7 building hardware; 6 stainless steel products and kitchen utensils; Daily hardware 5; Zipper 4; Shower room 2; Tools, gas appliances, locks each one.
According to the development pattern can be divided into --
Traditional industrial aggregation type: with the development of market economy, in some parts of the hardware industry earlier to realized the DPP, a large number of private enterprises in the local use of its technical superiority and sales channels, have sprung up spontaneously formed the industrial cluster, soon becomes the pillar industry of the local. Local governments seize the opportunities, seize opportunities, formulate practical policy measures, vigorously promote the process of industrialization, and gradually improve the industrial chain.
Town, zhangjiagang cityof sunan region started earlier industrial satellite town, township enterprises in hardware, a fortune by hardware, has 70 years of production history, is the association awarded the national first "town" of hardware; Anping silk screen has a history of 500 years. It can be traced back to the first year of hongzhi, or 1488, which is a long history. The base also has yongkang hardware, water head and so on.
First business model: qiaotou town, yongjia county, wenzhou city, in the early 1980s, the first person who dared to be a bridgehead created China's first small commodity market, the bridgehead button market. After many years of development, now has formed the button, zipper as the leading, various economic complete industrial cluster. Similar to the new stainless steel products industry, also in the development of stainless steel raw materials trade based on the development of stainless steel production base. Such base also has yiwu zipper, jieyang hardware, shandong linyi hedong hardware industry and trade city.