Promoting The Construction Of High-quality Laser Industry Chain in Shenzhen

Laser technology is a modern high-end manufacturing frontier technology, in the process of industrial transformation and upgrading plays an important role. Among them, the laser processing application has been from the beginning of the food, textile, electronics and other light industrial fields, expanding to the automobile, ship, spaceflight, aviation, high-speed rail and other heavy industrial fields. Data show that China's laser equipment market in the past 10 years, to achieve more than 6 times growth, to 2023 market size has exceeded 80 billion yuan. Recently, the Shenzhen tax department conducted a research on the laser industry cluster to understand the current development status of the industry and the existing difficulties, and suggested to support the development of the industry from the top level design, innovation drive and industry chain.
First, the international technical barriers are high. Restricted by technology and production process, laser equipment required semiconductor laser chip, laser head, special fiber and other core components import dependence is high. A laser technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. reflected that, at present, the company motor and chip and other key materials and accessories in about 40% dependence on imports, especially the core components of high-power blue laser chip is currently a lack of alternative products in the country.
Second, the product price competition is fierce. In recent years, the domestic marking, cutting and other technical thresholds in the field of low-priced competition, fiber laser price war from low-power to high-power, into the price of "white-knuckle" stage, through price cuts to obtain a larger market share of the behavior of the industry's profitability, resulting in R & D investment in capital constraints. Shenzhen Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. reflected, in the field of laser metal sheet metal cutting there is a low price competition, in order to expand market share, the company maintains the cost of raw materials on the premise of downward adjustments to the product price, the core product nanosecond solid-state laser quotes from the highest 100,000 yuan per unit down to 40,000 yuan, or as much as 60%, the laser gross profit margins from the listing of 50% to 10% to 20%, total profits also appeared to a certain extent of decline. Total profit also appeared a certain rate of decline.
Third, high-end R & D power is insufficient. On the one hand, the laser industry needs a long time technology research and product verification time, input and output is not proportional to a short period of time, the enterprise capital requirements are high; on the other hand, the development of the industry requires a lack of high-end talent, restricting the enhancement of product innovation capability.
It is recommended to start from the following aspects to promote the high-quality development of the laser industry chain.
First, do a good job of comprehensive and diversified top-level design. Strengthen the research and development of industry standards, encourage relevant universities, research institutions, standardization organizations, industry organizations, enterprises to actively participate in the standardization of the laser field, the timely development of industry standards, and promote the introduction of relevant international standards, enterprise standards, product standards.
Second, to create an innovation-driven industrial pattern. Hardware, the establishment of laser industry technology research library, the annual organization and implementation of a certain number of scientific and technological innovation research projects; software, bring together a number of talents in the field of laser-related detection software, nesting software, service software, industrial software, fine-tuning, and continue to accumulate research results. Strengthen the guidance industry mutual assistance, preferred leading enterprises to set up industry associations, accelerate breakthroughs in the industry's technical problems, improve the efficiency of resource integration and utilization and market space. Increase the protection of intellectual property rights, improve the interactive support mechanism of technological innovation, patent protection and standardization in the laser field, and promote the intellectual property rights of innovative achievements.
Third, to construct a systematic and complete industrial chain. On the one hand, encourage relevant universities, research institutions to increase the high-power blue light source and other key technology research, to achieve the supply chain of key products of local production; on the other hand, around the industrial chain supporting, promote the construction of laser industrial park, in the industrial cluster targeted to foster a number of small and precise, small and specialized, small and special laser industry supporting enterprises, and actively guide leading enterprises to small and medium-sized enterprises to carry out close or loose merger and reorganization, to form a clustering effect. Merger and reorganization, the formation of agglomeration effect, expanding the economic scale.