As the world enters the “post-crisis” era, finding and nurturing new economic growth points and developing strategic emerging industries have become the most important means for all countries in the world to seize a new round of strategic commanding heights. For China, the development of strategic emerging industries is not only an expedient measure for us to base ourselves on the current situation and respond to the crisis, but also a major strategic choice that is oriented toward the future and focuses on the long-term. Semiconductor lighting is one of the few strategically emerging industries that has gradually mastered key core technologies, has market demand prospects, possesses low energy consumption, large coefficient of movement, multiple employment opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. It not only brings another revolution of lighting sources following incandescent and fluorescent lamps in lighting history, but also is an important way to save energy and reduce emissions, and will play a more important role in the development of a low-carbon economy.

Semiconductor lighting has important contribution to energy saving, emission reduction and low carbon economy

At present, LED light efficiency has been higher than traditional lighting and display light sources, showing superior energy-saving effects, such as traffic signals, landscape lighting and other special lighting areas, energy-saving effect of more than 80%; compared with traditional lighting, functional lighting Such as LED road lighting can save more than 30%, tunnel lighting can save 40%, LED indoor downlights, spotlights and other lighting products to replace traditional halogen lamps, fluorescent lamps can save 30% to 50%. Since 2009, under the "10 City Ten Thousand" pilot application demonstration project (hereinafter referred to as "Ten City Ten Thousand"), the speed of domestic technological progress has accelerated significantly. At present, domestic power-type LED chips have been applied in the lighting of branch roads, indoor downlights, and spotlights. Through optical design, heat dissipation, and drive technology integration, the efficacy of indoor and outdoor functional lighting fixtures has exceeded 80lm/W. According to the preliminary statistics of 21 pilot cities, as of now, more than 500,000 street lamps, tunnel lights, solar LED street lamps, LED fluorescent lamps, downlights, spotlights, stage lights and other products have been used in demonstration applications, saving 100 million kilowatts annually. More than time. In addition, driven by the Olympic demonstration project, in addition to the extensive use of LED landscape lighting at the Shanghai World Expo and the Guangzhou Asian Games, some roads and interior lighting will also demonstrate the application of semiconductor lighting products.

It is estimated that the life cycle energy consumption (240 kWh) of LED lamps with luminous efficacy of 75 lm/W is much lower than that of incandescent lamps (1505 kWh), and also lower than that of compact fluorescent lamps (327 kWh). Low characteristics. At the same time, LED has no mercury, such as fluorescent lamps, energy-saving lamps, and cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) used in LCD TVs and LCD backlights. It can significantly reduce the environmental pollution of waste lamps. LED lamps use low-voltage DC power supply. Infrared and ultraviolet radiation are truly green and healthy lighting sources.

In 2009, China's total power generation was 3650.6 billion kWh, lighting power was about 430 billion kWh, accounting for 12% of total power consumption, and accounted for 5.9% of energy consumption, and it grew at a rate of 5% to 10% each year. According to Chinese experts' forecast, in 2015, lighting electricity will reach 600 billion kilowatt-hours (annual increase of 3% to 5%), LED lighting effects can reach 120lm/W, LED lighting accounts for more than 20% of the lighting market, each year will Saving 100 billion kwh in electricity consumption can reduce CO2, SO2, NOx, and dust emissions by 150 million tons. It can reduce the construction of 21 million-kilowatt power stations and reduce 30% of new power stations. (In 2015, it is estimated that there will be an additional 1 million-kilowatt power station. About 63 seats). It is estimated that by 2020, the electricity used for lighting will reach 720 billion kwh, the luminous efficiency of LED lamps will reach 150lm/W, entering the 50% lighting market, and the annual electricity saving will be 340 billion kwh, and 73 stations of 1 million kilowatts will be built. Saving electricity through lighting does not require the addition of a new power station.

China's semiconductor lighting industry has entered a period of rapid development

Since the start of the semiconductor lighting project in 2003, the Ministry of Science and Technology has supported the technological innovation and industrialization of semiconductor lighting in the fields of scientific and technological breakthroughs and new materials for the 863 Plan. China's semiconductor lighting industry and technology have made significant progress, initially forming an upstream The relatively complete R&D and industrial systems of materials, midstream chip preparation, downstream device packaging and integrated applications have entered a stage of rapid development.

1. Major breakthroughs have been made in key technologies for industrialization. The LED manufacturing technology based on the enterprise has progressed rapidly, and the efficiency of the power-based chip package completed by the industrialization of the company has reached 80 to 100 lm/W. The power type white LED package has reached the international advanced level. The light efficiency of the power-type silicon-substrate LED chips with independent intellectual property rights has reached 78 lm/W after encapsulation, which is at the international advanced level.

2. The industry has begun to take shape, the industrial chain has become increasingly complete, and the market application is at the forefront of the international community. By the end of 2009, there were more than 3,000 LED companies in China. Among them, there are more than 40 upstream epitaxy and chip manufacturers, about 1,000 mid-range packaging companies, and 2,000 downstream production companies. Private enterprises account for 85% of the total number of companies. In 2009, the output value of China’s chips increased by 25% to 2.3 billion yuan, which was basically the same as the growth rate of 26% in 2008. In 2009, China's LED packaging output value reached 20.4 billion yuan, an increase of 10% from 2008's 18.5 billion yuan; output increased by 10% from 109.4 billion yuan in 2008 to 105.6 billion, of which high-brightness LED output value reached 18.6 billion yuan. , accounting for 90% of total LED sales. At the same time, there is also a big improvement in terms of product and corporate structure. SMD and high-power LED packages have grown faster. In 2009, the output value of China's semiconductor lighting applications reached 60 billion yuan. Despite the financial crisis, China's semiconductor lighting industry still showed a trend of contrarian growth in 2009. The scale of the industry has increased to 82.7 billion yuan, an increase of nearly 20%, and is expected to reach 100 billion yuan in 2010.

3. The industrial development environment is increasingly perfect. From the Ministry of Science and Technology launched the semiconductor lighting project in 2003 and the “Ten Thousand Cities” project in 2009, to the recent introduction of industrial development guidance from six ministries and commissions including the National Development and Reform Commission, and the development of strategic emerging industries proposed by post-crisis countries, all indicate that the government China is actively promoting the development of China's semiconductor lighting industry. Under the guidance and support of government policies, with the improvement of device performance and energy-saving effect, China's semiconductor lighting industry will enter the period of rapid development, the market has great potential, will drive the industry to upgrade. In order to promote technological integration and innovation, accelerate the industrialization of results, and strengthen cooperation between industry, universities, and research institutes, the National Semiconductor Lighting Engineering R&D and Industry Alliance (hereinafter referred to as the “Alliance”) establishes industrial R&D funds, organizes major Olympic demonstration projects, holds innovation contests, and promotes and establishes standards. Patent pools and other work have established a cooperation platform for production, learning and research, which has improved the efficiency and level of technological innovation and promoted the implementation of major projects. The coordination and promotion of the Union Standards has achieved remarkable results. Eight national standards and nine industry standards have been formally released. To support the pilot project of “Ten Cities and Ten Thousand People”, the Alliance has currently completed LED road lighting products, tunnel lights, and road and tunnel lighting. There are five recommended technical specifications for product supervision, inspection, installation, and acceptance, and technical specifications for LED road lighting products in cold regions. At the same time, technical specifications for downlights and spotlights are being developed. In addition, the alliance has been a UN home-level testing agency that regularly publishes product testing data to provide a scientific reference for reasonably setting the performance indicators for demonstration application products in local areas, and is currently recommending localized energy-saving styling products for the next step. The catalog does the preparatory work. The alliance also worked through the technical standardization and standardization of patent work, researched and formulated national semiconductor lighting patent strategy, researched and deployed patented networks, explored the operation mode of patent pools, and provided decision support for related departments. The work of the Alliance has expanded the domestic semiconductor lighting development vision, aroused the attention of the international community, and has had an important impact on the development of domestic industries.

Through the implementation of the national semiconductor lighting project, China's semiconductor lighting industry has established an important position in the international arena, in particular, the "Ten Cities, Ten Thousand and Ten Thousand Fights," which shows that "through the application of promoting scientific and technological innovation, play a role in science and technology to support economic development, and promote energy conservation The concept of emission reduction work has had a tremendous and far-reaching impact at home and abroad. In addition, China is a major country in the key raw material resources for semiconductor lighting and can guarantee the sustainable development of the industry. The investment intensity and risk of the semiconductor lighting industry are far lower than that of the microelectronics industry. It has the characteristics of double labor-intensive labor, suits China's national conditions, and can stimulate employment on a large scale.