Wire and cable industry presents the "bottleneck"

In recent years, China's wire and cable industry is booming and has made remarkable achievements, but compared with their foreign counterparts, still in the emerging and low-skilled status, not strong capacity for independent innovation, unreasonable product structure, redundant middle and low products, while less high-tech, high value-added products, the industrial chain is not perfect. In this regard, the industry called for strengthening the supervision, standardize the development of wire and cable industry.

"At present, in domestic wire and cable market, the product price has become a number of SME's competitive. Wire and cable is a typical heavy materials, work light industry, 70% to 80% of the total cost of the prices of raw materials, raw materials the pros and cons effect the quality of wire and cable products to a large extent." Chen Shujun, general manager of Beijing Huitong Detai Cable Co., Ltd., said.

According to statistics, the cable manufacturers in China has reached 7000, but the scale of cable companies is small, the production of wire and cable industry concentration is low, the market share occupied by the largest enterprises is 1 % to 2.5%.

A cable brand agents told reporters, domestic wire and cable market, shoddy, fake, defective products is very serious, and even some "free-inspect products" quality is not satisfactory. In addition, the industry regulator regardless of the phenomenon, this situation has also led to difficult wire and cable industry.

Chen Shujun said because of the barriers to entry are relatively low, a large number of family workshops, "mom and pop" is still active in the wire and cable market, their main competitive weapon is price, quality is difficult to guarantee, and no technology content to speak, these phenomena, regardless of the conditions the herd phenomenon resulting in oversupply of some products, the market increasingly competitive.

At present, domestic wire and cable market management is very confusing, there is an unwritten rule in this circle, even some from regular manufacturers of high-quality cable, to the middlemen will become the product of the "three noes".

It is reported that Guangdong Province near 80 percent of wire and cable products failed; Hunan wire and cable products sampling pass rate is less than 60 percent; Shanghai wire and cable pass rate was 34.4%; random wire and cable enterprise in Shaanxi Province 51 pass rate of 35.3% ; Anhui Province, wire and cable pass rate is less than 60 percent.

In recent years, the relevant government departments take various measures to regulate wire and cable market, but still unable to stop the dumping of shoddy cable market momentum. Many regular cable manufacturers want to pursue self-regulation, not low-priced competition,  product quality standards are strictly in accordance with the national standards, these manufacturers can not cut corners, come forward to appeal to ensure that there is a regulated market environment.