In 2003, there were no listed companies within the industry but there are 19 listed companies in 2013.
Ten years ago, at the beginning of the semiconductor lighting industry, to develop together has become the common view of many newly emerged enterprises as it was hard to face with the international competition for the weak and unorganized domestic enterprises then.
In October, 2004, in accordance with the principle of “willingness, equality, cooperation” 43 domestic mainstay semiconductor lighting corporations and scientific research institutions founded national semiconductor lighting engineering research and development and industry union. At present, the union is consisted with 293 member units from Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan and foreign organizations enrolled in China and set up semiconductor lighting industry technological innovation strategic union in 2009 and national key laboratory of semiconductor lighting united innovation. In a manner of speaking, national semiconductor lighting engineering research and development and industry union is exploring sustainably the effective mode and operation mechanism over the past ten years and plays an important role in increasing the international competence of domestic lighting industry as well as encouraging the innovation in production and research.
The policy benefits the lighting effect of LED remarkably
As it is estimated, if to substitute incandescent light with energy-saving light in our country, it will save 48 billion kwh of electricity, equaling to 48 million ton carbon dioxide emission. If to further substitute incandescent lighting with LED lighting products, it will bring more remarkable saving effect. We can say that semiconductor lighting will sure become the main force in the career of energy saving and emission reduction in our country.